For Immediate Release: April 2, 2008
SPRING BODES WELL FOR FRASER VALLEY BUYERS
(Surrey, BC) – In March, selection reached a 10-year high on the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS®), with the number of active listings reaching 9,361, an increase of 27 per cent compared to the 7,351 listings available during the same month last year. The previous March that offered as much or greater inventory was in 1998, when Fraser Valley had 10,148 active listings. The total number of sales processed through Fraser Valley’s MLS® in March was 1,315, a decrease of 25 percent compared to March 2007 when 1,743 sales were processed.
The number of new listings in March also decreased slightly with the Board receiving 3,277 compared to 3,369 new listings received during the same month last year, a decrease of 3 per cent. In March, average Fraser Valley home prices continued to increase in the strong single digits for detached and townhomes and remained in the double digits for condominiums.
Kelvin Neufeld, president of the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board explains, “With a significant increase in product and properties taking longer to sell, we have a more competitive market for sellers in the Fraser Valley right now, yet enough demand to keep prices trending upwards.
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Like Calgary and Edmonton, the Fraser Valley's inventory has increased quite a lot in the last 6 months. This will put downward pressure on prices in the near future, unless this inventory gets bought up.
Fraser Valley real estate market is little different than Edmonton & Calgary. Fraser Valley more desirable location, economy is more diverse. So far the prices are holding steady or rising with few exceptions, like Whiterock. But you are right the listing numbers are up so there is going to a pressure on prices if sale don't increase even higher.
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