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Monthly market intelligence for Greater Vancouver — board HPI, Bank of Canada macro, CMHC vacancy, rental yield, and the cohort signals the boards don't surface. Free to read; cite freely.
Greater Vancouver Market Intelligence: July 2026
July answered June's question, and the answer was no. June's broad demand pop — the first meaningful annual sales gain of this cycle — did not persist: July sales fell to 2,061, down 9.8% year-over-year (YoY) and down 13.8% from June, led by an 18% collapse in apartment sales.…
Read issueGreater Vancouver Market Intelligence: June 2026
June was the month demand came back — and price didn't follow. Home sales jumped to 2,390, up 9.6% year-over-year (YoY) from June 2025, the first meaningful annual gain in this cycle and a genuinely broad one: detached sales +13.7%, attached +11.4%, apartment +6.1%, all up at…
Greater Vancouver Market Intelligence: May 2026
May was the month the segment divergence began to show up in prices, not just volumes — and the month a routine seasonal test exposed how soft the "firming" really is. The board's headline reads benign: Composite benchmark up 0.2% month-over-month (MoM) to $1,100,700, sales up…
Greater Vancouver Market Intelligence: April 2026
April was the month the segment divergence became official board narrative — but the YoY framing flatters a market that is, by 10-year standards, deeply abnormal. Sales of 2,110 are 22.9% below the 10-year April average; new listings of 6,684 are 15.5% above; active listings of…