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The Real Estate market is not taking a winter break here in Metro Vancouver... it is still going strong! Here are 5 things that are important to know about the real estate market in Metro Vancouver: 

1. Supply:  We had 4,041 properties listed thru the month of November which is down -57% from this time last year (November 2014) and down -19.5% from last month (October 2015). 
   
   Currently we have 2.1 months of inventory for detached houses and 2  months of inventory for attached homes (condos, townhouses and 1/2 duplex).
   
   
2. Demand: 1,941 properties sold in November which is up +38% from this time last year (November 2014) and is only 88 less than October.
   
   
3. Time:  The average time for a detached house to sell was 18.6 days and for attached homes it was 22.1 days.
   
   
4. Prices:  The average price of detached house is $1,708,857 which is up +29% from last year (November 2014) and up +2.2% from last month (October 2015). 
   The average price of an attached home is $499,469 which is -.5% less than last year (November 2014) and -6.3% from last month (October 2015).
   
   
5. Hottest Areas

For Detached houses, the following areas saw the largest price increases from this time last year (November 2014):

• North Vancouver with an increase of +38.9% to an Average price of $1,500,000.  There is also just 1.25 months of supply for detached houses
  
• West Vancouver with an increase of +37.4% to an Average price of $2,720,000.  There is currently 4.2 months of supply for detached houses.
  
• Vancouver Eastside with an increase of +36.3% to an Average price of $1,310,000.  There is also just 2.0 months of supply for detached houses.
  

For Attached homes, the following areas saw the largest price increases from this time last year (November 2014): 

• the Vancouver Westside with an increase of +29.6% to an Average price of $640,000.  There is also just 2.1 months of supply of condos, townhomes and 1/2 duplexes.
• the Vancouver Eastside with an increase of +15% to an Average price of $425,000.  There is also just 1.6 months of supply of attached homes.
• Downtown Vancouver with an increase of +12.4% to an Average price of $615,000.  There is also just 1.4 months of supply of condos & townhouses.
  
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