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Market Info: BC Year- Over- Year Sales

Today an article was published by Kelly Sinoski of The Vancouver Sun about the annual year- over- year sales growth within the BC real estate market. This piece has some great information comparing BC with national statistics. If you are considering buying or selling in 2014, make sure you take a look.

 


B.C. home sales to see largest year-over-year increase

 

BY KELLY SINOSKI, VANCOUVER SUN

View original article here: The Vancouver Sun

 

Canadian home sales are expected to rebound this spring, with B.C. forecast to see the largest year-over-year increase and contribute the most to national sales activity.

 

The province is expected to see an 8.3 per cent increase in sales activity, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, compared with a plus or minus three per cent increase in activity across the other provinces in 2014.

 

The national average home price is expected to rise by 3.8 per cent to $397,000 this year, with similar sized gains in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

 

National resale housing activity has started slowly this year, partly because of stronger levels of activity recorded last summer and fall when buyers with pre-approved mortgage financing advanced home purchases before their lower pre-approved rates expired.

 

Home sales are expected to trend higher heading into the spring and be boosted over the second half of the year with a “widely anticipated pick-up in Canadian economic growth.” Sales are forecast to reach 463,700 units in 2014, up 1.3 per cent from a year earlier.

 

In 2015, national activity is forecast to edge up a further 1.2 per cent to 469,400 units. Affordability is expected to restrain activity in Canada’s most expensive markets, with annual sales forecast to decline marginally in B.C.

 



Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/home+sales+largest+year+over+year+increase/9626205/story.html#ixzz2wFVtva2C


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