Concrete Pre-Sale Occupancy Snapshot as of April 2019

Data highlights

This update details the number of actively-selling, sold-out and contemplated concrete pre-sale homes by sub-market and estimated year of occupancy.

By the end of 2019, 9,629 concrete pre-sale homes are expected to be ready for occupancy, a 15% increase from 2018 when 8,406 homes were completed.

Of concrete pre-sale homes expected to complete between 2019 and 2023, 80% are sold.

What this means for you

Of the 37,905 concrete homes expected to complete between 2019-23, 80% have already been sold. While Downtown Vancouver and the Coquitlam/Port Moody sub-markets have the highest percentage of homes already sold (90%), opportunities still exist in North Vancouver and in Richmond (with only 64% and 63% of homes completing by 2023, respectively, having already been sold).

In terms of contemplated concrete product, Burnaby leads the way with 29,105 potential future homes coming to market, while Coquitlam/Port Moody has the second most with 16,162. Port Coquitlam (47 homes), Pitt Meadows/Maple Ridge (493), and Langley/Cloverdale (718) have relatively few contemplated projects in the pipeline, and no concrete homes completing within the next 5 years.

View the latest Concrete Pre-sale Occupancy Snapshot.

Every three months, rennie intelligence provides a Concrete Multi-family Occupancy update based on the latest data sourced from Urban Analytics' NHS Live database. As part of this update, the number of concrete homes associated with actively-selling, sold-out, and contemplated multi-family projects are presented, by sub-market, and by their estimated year of first occupancy. These dates of first occupancy reflect direct estimates provided by NHS Live. 

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