Pre-sales for townhouses/semi-detached are much more expensive than detached homes in the Greater Toronto area: Report Housing in Toronto is the tenth least-affordable in the world, neck-and-neck with London and behind cities like San Francisco and Honolulu–though not by much. Buying properties as a pre-sales–a home that is bought or sold prior to construction–is often […]
In 2018, about 23,000 MLS transactions occurred in Greater Vancouver, of which about three percent were developer pre-sales or pre-sale assignments, and the majority of which were related to apartments. Common-wisdom suggests that purchasing a pre-sale property saves the buyer money, but is that actually the case? For this article, we had our data scientists […]
According to Roomvu market analytics, the number of realtors in Metro Vancouver has nearly doubled in the past 20 years. And though Vancouver’s housing market isn’t the only burning-hot one in the country, numbers from a recent report show that B.C.cities has, by far, the highest concentration of realtors per Canadian city. A study by […]
Introduction The percentage of completed dual agency in real estate transactions in Greater Vancouver has dropped dramatically. This is to be expected. The Real Estate Council of British Columbia, as of June 15th, 2018, barred licensed real estate professionals from representing both the buyer and the seller in a transaction. The main reason for this […]
In this article, find out which realtors have been in the top 1% for at least three consecutive years The Occupy Wall Street movement from 2011 aimed to shine a light on the disproportionate wealth held by the top one percent of the population in the US. Although we won’t likely see a march in […]
In this article, Roomvu features some of the top newly proclaimed realtors in Greater Vancouver who, in past years, did not make any of the top lists. There were more than 13,000 realtors working in the Greater Vancouver Region in 2018. The average realtor was involved in buying or selling about four condos/townhomes and three […]
Why are Vancouver realtors listing fewer properties? If you live in the Greater Vancouver Area, chances are you know a realtor or two in your life. Whether it’s your cousin, uncle, parent, sibling, friend, odds are you aren’t too many degrees of separation away from someone who makes their living selling houses. Back in 2004, […]
What does it mean when a home has had multiple owners in a short amount of time? We examined one listing in Maple Ridge that has been on the market more than 10 times in less than 20 years. Imagine finding the home of your dreams in Maple Ridge after searching for months on end […]
Number Vancouver realtors projected to decrease further in 2019 and beyond according to Roomvu, a real estate data and analytics company Vancouver, B.C. – Real Estate in Vancouver and Vancouver realtors has been a hot topic long before it started to cost the average person more than half their income to rent a space the […]
In this Roomvu article, we look into the statistics and MLS data of the average number of bedrooms in studios, apartments, condos, half- duplexes and townhomes from 2004-2018 in Vancouver and Greater Vancouver neighbourhoods. Are you curious to know the average amount of bedrooms per dwelling in your city? Our data scientist team from Roomvu […]
