Rate Hold Meets Buyer’s Market: Why Vancouver’s Window Is Still Open

Posted on Aug 21, 2026 in Real Estate

Market Insight · August 2026

Rate Hold Meets Buyer’s Market: Why Vancouver’s Window Is Still Open

Kevin Lynch · Your Community Realtor, Sutton Centre Realty · Updated August 21, 2026

A month ago I called this market a window — a stretch where buyers, not sellers, hold the pen. Since then the Bank of Canada has held rates for a sixth straight time, inv...

Make This Weekend Count

Posted on Aug 21, 2026

Things to Do This Week — August 19-25, 2026

We're in that golden stretch of late summer where the evenings stay warm, the mountains hold onto the light a little longer, and the North Shore feels like it's showing off. School's not back yet, the seawall is buzzing, and there's a real end-of-summer energy in the air — the kind that makes you want to b...

Posted on Aug 03, 2026

East Vancouver Market Update: Century Homes, Brand-New Half-Duplexes, and a Sold-to-List Ratio That Tells the Real Story

Weekly East Vancouver Market Deep DiveEast Vancouver has always been the city's most contradictory neighbourhood — century-old character homes standing shoulder to shoulder with brand-new laneway half-duplexes, million-dollar bung...