Real estate insights, tips, and market updates.
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In a bare land strata you own the lot, not a box of air inside a building. That one difference changes your title, your property tax bill, and what the strata fee actually buys.
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All four major BC portals show the same MLS listings. What separates them is price history, expired listings, filters, strata data, and who actually pays the bills.
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Kelowna has 2,793 active listings and a $799,000 median asking price. Condos start at $475,000 and detached houses ask $1,189,000. Here is how the areas compare.
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Canadians moving from Calgary or Toronto are not foreign buyers, and the taxes that apply are not the ones most people worry about. Here is what actually changes when you buy in BC.
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Greater Vancouver closed August 2026 with 14,590 active listings at a $1,159,000 median and 66 days on market. Fraser Valley: 7,678 listings, $969,000. Every property type median held flat for the month, but listings kept aging and more than a third have now sat past 90 days.
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Nanaimo asks a median $759,900 across 707 active listings at $420 per square foot, 43 percent below Metro Vancouver. A guide to prices by type and the best areas to buy.
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Every BC tenancy runs on the same standard terms whether or not anyone signs a form. Here is what the RTB-1 binds both sides to, what deposits are legal, and how the 2026 rent increase cap works.
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Vancouver West has 900 listings under $900,000 and not one detached house. Mission has 221 and 88 are detached. Same budget, a completely different home, across 25 regions.
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April listings in BC sell in a median of 16 days and December listings in 26, but the price you get barely moves with the season, and spring brings the most competing sellers.
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Pitt Meadows has 132 active listings, an $879,850 median ask, and half its inventory under $900,000. Here is what detached, townhouse and condo buyers actually paid in 2026.
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Only 8% of active BC listings hold an open house. What that scarcity tells you, when the sessions actually run, and what to check in the twenty minutes you are inside.
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There are 423 active foreclosures on the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley boards. Surrey holds 144 of them, West Vancouver has 12 at a $1,990,000 median, and 72 are vacant land.
