Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Additional January 2008 CMHC Data

The January 2008 CMHC Housing Now report for the Vancouver / Abbotsford area came out today.

Here are some highlights that I found interesting.

Units under construction in (during some stage of being built):

  • Entire Vancouver CMA = 25,598
  • Vancouver City and Endowment Lands = 6,752
  • Surrey / White Rock = 5,090
  • Tri-Cities = 3,022
  • Burnaby = 3,081
  • Langley = 1,159
  • Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows = 1,221
  • New West = 1,286
  • North/West Vancouver = 1653

Completed but Unabsorbed Units (Vacant/unsold and complete housing units; I'm looking for these numbers to skyrocket this year and next as the number of completions begins to catch up):

  • Entire Vancouver CMA = 1,407
  • Surrey / White Rock = 430
  • Langley = 199
  • Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows = 136
  • Vancouver / Endowment Lands = 290

If you are thinking about buying a new home in any of these areas you should be able to put a lot of pressure on the developer to cut you a good discount because they are sitting on a higher level of inventory than they are used to. Of course I think you'll probably get an even better deal if you wait a little while longer.

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