{"id":8,"date":"2026-09-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/jonathanlu-ca\/2026\/09\/03\/bc-housing-market-shows-regional-split\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:00:00","slug":"bc-housing-market-shows-regional-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/bc-housing-market-shows-regional-split\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Housing Market Shows Regional Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/jonathan-lu-prec-1\/bc-home-sales-fall-in-july-3483\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Early-Q3, BC recorded 6.6K residential sales, \u2193~7% yearly, while provincial sales volume reached $6.1B and avg. price eased to ~$930K provincewide.<br \/>\nBC&#039;s headline softness masked a widening regional divide, with recovering Interior markets offsetting continued pressure in the Lower Mainland during Early-Q3 activity.<br \/>\nBC&#039;s Interior helped balance the picture: Okanagan prices \u2191~8%, South Peace River prices \u2191~10% with sales \u2191~26%, while Kamloops and Kootenay also advanced.<br \/>\nSeasonally adjusted sales activity rose MoM across most of BC, suggesting broader stabilization, while economists said remaining weakness stayed concentrated in the Lower Mainland.<br \/>\nThrough Early-Q3 2026, BC dollar volume \u2193~7% to $38B and unit sales \u2193~6% to 40.4K; the forecast still expected 2027 growth provincewide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Early-Q3, BC recorded 6.6K residential sales, \u2193~7% yearly, while provincial sales volume reached $6.1B and avg. price eased to ~$930K provincewide. BC&#039;s headline softness masked a widening regional divide, with recovering Interior markets offsetting continued pressure in the Lower Mainland during Early-Q3 activity. BC&#039;s Interior helped balance the picture: Okanagan prices \u2191~8%, South Peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanlu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}