March 2026: Real Estate Numbers are Misleading!
Posted on Mar 07, 2026
In February 2026, there were 20 sales across the entire region (Canal Flats to Spillimacheen, including Panorama), compared with 33 sales in February 2025 — a 39% drop.
January and December showed a similar pattern. Over the past three months there were 51 total...
Agency. Who is your Agent working for?
Posted on Feb 10, 2026
AGENCY & Representation:
- "Agency" is a well-established concept in our lives, backed by common law. Sometimes it's described as the 'principal-agent' relationship.
- An agency relationship exists when one party takes on a fiduciary responsibility for acting on behalf of another.
- Fiduciary means that loyalty, care, good faith, and putting the principal's...
Sales Plunge 41%: Market Hits a Standoff
Posted on Feb 08, 2026
For January 2026, we saw only 20 sales (valley wide) compared to 34 in 2025.
New listings are also down 39.74% (47 this year compared to 78 in 2025).
These numbers confirm what I am feeling on the ground, and they are related. The lack of exciting new listings (many of the 'new...
January 2026 Real Estate Scan! And 'new' BC ASSESSMENT numbers!
Posted on Jan 06, 2026
December 2025 was a disaster from a sales perspective — only 11 sales for the entire month through the entire Columbia Valley. However, year-to-date totals tell a different story: 521 sales, which is up 6.98% from the 487 total sales in 2024.
To put this December's poor performance in perspective, December 2021 was 34 sales, 2022 was 18 sales and la...
Nov 2025 Real Estate Stats!
Posted on Dec 10, 2025
November this year tied exactly with November last year for the number of sales, with 37 sales (all property types from Canal Flats to Spillimacheen, including Invermere and Panorama).
Building on this steady performance, year to date at the end of November, we are at 510 sales for 2025, compared to 467 for 2024 (480 for 2023, 586 for 2022, and an u...
October 2025 Real Estate Stats!
Posted on Nov 02, 2025
Real Estate Headlines: What Do You Want to Believe?
Let's compare these two headlines:"Sales are down 10.81%!" vs. "There were a total of 33 sales in the Columbia Valley (Spil...