Hypocritical “experts” still plague the market but all notable metrics are showing a rise in market conditions. These so called “experts” who continue to denounce Vancouver’s real estate market can only be attributed to sore losers who are trying to claw back their clout after making terrible decisions by selling their assets or refusing to buy assets when they should have.
Those who preach doom and gloom in the real estate market are doing so as a self-fulfilling prophecy, an excuse to explain why they are not doing the same volume of deals as they once were. Changing market conditions requires ones strategy to also evolve and change; you cannot expect to continue as the status quo in a market that is not the same…
The question on everyone’s mind still looms as months pass since the market was sent into turmoil due to the government’s new regulations. Each and every day, we are seeing promising home sales, just not to the same volume of what we are used to. Home sale values seem to be holding relatively constant with the MLS Benchmark price hovering just above the $3million mark.
A clearer sense of understanding seems to be developing amongst the real estate market following the wake of confusion onset by the government’s intervention over the last two months. This month, yet again, we have seen very promising sales reported however we still have yet to see our normal volume of sales; this can be largely attributed to listings that have prices far above their fair market value.
With the flurry of recent chatter about Vancouver’s housing market it is hard to derive ones own opinion on what is truly going on; here is my take on September’s real estate market. On August 2nd, the government announced and implemented a shocking 15% tax on foreign buyers and thus the real estate market was essentially thrown further into a state of confusion. Therefore, September’s home sale numbers have, of course, been affected over that of the previous years (2015).
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