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Home Buying is Easy...
...at least according to commentary in a publication regularly inserted in a local newspaper, which is widely circulated throughout Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley communities: http://www.newlocalhome.com/editions/nlhr100722
The assertion,  "...Homebuying is Easy," seems to be based on the supply of homes listed on MLS.  I checked yesterday and the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) showed there were 16,700 listings available on a cross property search.
The REBGV includes Richmond but doesn't include Surrey and other points south of the Fraser River and east up the Valley. The current Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) supply is 9,192 listings available on a cross property search. In the Tri-Cities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody respectively, there are 1,051, 427 and 398 active listings.
In order to measure the total housing supply available for sale it is also absolutely essential to know how many new homes are available for sale that are not listed on MLS, and yet this extremely important part of the equation is always missing.
The new homes for sale figure can move as quickly up or down, leading or lagging MLS trends, and will of course often go in a different direction than MLS numbers; these are ... more

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