Real estate statistics for May show home prices have posted only small gains so far in 2008, Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says.

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Who’s buying up all the condos in the city, he asks. And answers: A good percentage of the purchasers, as it turns out, are offshore investors.

An influx of new listings entered the Greater Vancouver housing market in April 2008, while residential sales reduced slightly compared to the same period a year ago.

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A report by the International Monetary Fund that declared Canada one of only two major-market countries where home prices are undervalued must come as a shock to Vancouver residents. After all, our defining real estate feature is the million-dollar tear-down.

Vancouver’s downtown office vacancy rate was squeezed down to a near record low in the first quarter of 2008 and some rents to new highs.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that while there were fewer housing sales in March 2008 compared to last year, residential prices continued to climb.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reports that residential attached, detached and apartment property sales totalled 2,676 in February 2008, a decline of 6.4 per cent from the 2,859 residential sales recorded in February 2007, and a decline of 9 per cent compared to the 2, 941 sales in February 2006.

February was a busy month for developers in the Vancouver area. They started construction on 2,446 new homes and completed 1,484.

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Canadians who have recently purchased, renewed or refinanced a mortgage want to quickly pay off their debt, a survey by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation indicated.

Home sales have fallen for the second month in a row, and we’ve seen the slowest start to a year since 2003, according to the British Columbia Real Estate Association.

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