Doris Gee

Well, the numbers are in! The housing market continued at a good clip in September and it looks like we’re going to have a solid market well into the fall. According the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, sales of attached, detached and apartment properties increased by 17.5 per cent last September compared to September 2004. On a transaction basis, that’s a difference between 3,344 units sold in 2005 compared to 2,845 sales for the same month last year. That’s incredible.

Attached properties enjoyed the largest gains, with a 51 per cent increase in sales for September compared to September 2004. Second on the list was detached properties. Sales