Balance. A look at the May REBGV numbers
I want to discuss the stats for May, and how they fit with previous months and years. It is clear that sales went up, but why? Let's see what the numbers can tell us.
Category Stats
What is delayed may happen later. What do stats today tell us about tomorrow?
The questions I want to answer are the following: 1)There are two price indices available, the House Price Index posted by the CREA, and the Teranet Index. How do they compare? 2)What is the correlation between the Sales to Active…
Stats don’t lie… Above or below assessed?
What is the percentage of units selling above or below assessed?
Evaluate and assess
Are units, on average, selling above or below their assessment price?
Stats don’t lie… Above or below asking?
WYSIATI (what you see is all there is) basically explains how quickly we jump to conclusions when presented with very limited data. We assume that what we see is representative of the rest of the data, extrapolate, and jump to…
Down down… Vancouver Real Estate trend in March
Despite common belief that the real estate in Vancouver would pick up in the spring, that was not the case. March sales were the lowest they have been in 33 years, and inventory is picking up.
An arm and a leg. What determines the price of real estate?
Supply and demand dictate prices. When the supply is low, and the demand is high, prices go up. When the supply is high, and the demand is low, prices go down. I find it incredible that when I discuss prices…
Benching the benchmark. REBGV House Price Index.
In this blog post, I want to discuss something that comes up every month: the benchmark price or each unit type for Greater Vancouver.
Penny wise, pound foolish. Valuing Vancouver Real Estate.
Following the three metrics discussed in the previous blog post, let's see where if Vancouver is overvalued. Let's not be penny wise, pound foolish...
Do you know the price of everything but the value of nothing? Determining Real Estate property values.
In my first series of blog posts I want to start by discussing real estate, as the decision on where we live is a fundamental part of our personal finance journey.