Monthly Archive: April 2016

The CMHC is out to lunch

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Thanks to Hawk for posting the CMHC Housing Market Assessment which concluded that there is absolutely nothing abnormal about our housing market,...

When do sales usually slow?

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Triple A Rated wrote in the comments: “At an open house last weekend a Realtor told me that he expected a...

April 25 Market Update

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Weekly stats update courtesy of the VREB via Marko Juras. April 2016 Apr  2015 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Unconditional...

The Bank of Mom and Dad

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Assuming that the majority of buyers are still local, how are people affording to buy at these significantly inflated prices? One...

April 18 Market Update

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Weekly stats update courtesy of the VREB via Marko Juras. April 2016 Apr  2015 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4...

The power of not over leveraging

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.This post has neither graphs nor stats not any other useful information on the Victoria market.  It’s purely my own musings based...

April 11 Market Update

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Weekly stats update courtesy of the VREB via Marko Juras. April 2016 Apr  2015 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4...

Municipal tax rates

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.We here in Greater Victoria have the… unique pleasure of not actually living in one contiguous city, but in one of...

A March of Records

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Remember when the VREB was the real estate cheerleader?  In the market doldrums of 2011 and 2012 they jumped on any...

March Preview

This post is 8 years old. The data and my views may have since evolved.Full market summary coming soon.   For now I’ll just leave the output of our automated market summarizer here.  If you...