VICTORIA - SIDNEY, BC REAL ESTATE by OLE KNUDSEN

More Choices Now Available for Home BuyersJune 2, 2008 With a return to a balanced real estate market, home buyers in the Victoria area now have a much larger pool of properties from which to choose. The number of properties available for sale increased to 4,332 in May - a 25 % increase over the same month a year ago and the highest level ...

November Real Estate Market Strong Sales, Record Prices December 3, 2007 The Victoria area real estate market continued to show exceptional strength last month with strong sales and record average prices for single family homes and townhomes. There were 623 sales through the Victoria Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service® ...

Real Estate Sales Increase Prices Steady in February  March 1, 2007The number of sales of homes and other properties throughout Greater Victoria jumped by 60 per cent in February. Prices, meantime, remained stable. There were 707 sales through the Victoria Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) last month, up ...

For first time in 6 years, home prices are flat TAVIA GRANT  Thursday, February 08, 2007 For the first time in more than six years, Canadian housing prices have remained flat, a sign the country's hot real-estate market may finally be cooling.   Home prices didn't budge between November and December, Statistics Canada said ...

Here are some numbers for you from CMHC… MLS Activity The BC Real Estate Association in figures released in Dec 2006 states that: Residential Sales volume on MLS in BC reached $1.76 billion in December 2006, down 13% from the same month a year earlier. MLS Sales fell to 4,402 in December, from 5,701 in the same month in 2005, a decline ...

Record Real Estate Sales Values Reached in 2006 January 2, 2007The value of all property transactions through the Victoria Real Estate Board’s (VREB) Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) hit a new record high of nearly $3.4 billion in 2006, up from $3.2 billion in 2005. For the first time, the value of single family home sales exceeded ...

Real Estate Sales Steady in November December 1, 2006Real estate sales throughout the Greater Victoria area remained steady in November showing virtually no change from November of last year. The overall average price of single family homes sold last month softened slightly while the overall average prices of condominiums and townhomes sold ...