{"id":50,"date":"2014-05-02T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-05-02T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:14:41","slug":"spring-buyers-sellers-emerge-in-the-greater-vancouver-housing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/spring-buyers-sellers-emerge-in-the-greater-vancouver-housing-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Buyers &#038; Sellers Emerge in the Greater Vancouver Housing Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, B.C. \u2013 May 2, 2014 \u2013 Home buyers and sellers became more active in the<br \/>\nGreater Vancouver housing market in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential property sales in<br \/>\nGreater Vancouver reached 3,050 on the Multiple Listing Service\u00ae (MLS\u00ae) in April 2014. This<br \/>\nrepresents a 16.1 per cent increase compared to the 2,627 sales recorded in April 2013, and a<br \/>\n15.5 per cent increase compared to the 2,641 sales in March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s sales were 5.2 per cent below the 10-year sales average for April of 3,217.<\/p>\n<p>The sales-to-active-listings ratio currently sits at 19.7 per cent in Greater Vancouver, which is the<br \/>\nhighest this measure has been since June 2011.<\/p>\n<p>For the full statistics package, please click on the following:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/REBGV-Stats-Package-April-2014.pdf\">REBGV Stats Package, April 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The local real estate market statistics are out. And they are intricate and diverse. You need an expert to help guide you through the statistical seas. Contact Kevin on <a href=\"tel:+16043401267\" target=\"_blank\">604-340-1267<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:kevin@findaproperty.ca\" target=\"_blank\">kevin@findaproperty.ca<\/a> to learn about how these numbers affect your potential sale or purchase of a property in Metro Vancouver or Sea-to-Sky Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Statistics are just out and April 2014 was busier than the same month last year in the Metro Vancouver real estate market. Sales also increased substantially over last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,2],"tags":[9,11,10,12,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findaproperty.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}