There were 4,664 new listings of detached, attached and apartment properties last month, a 15.4 per cent increase from a year earlier, as new listings were 4.8 per cent above the 10-year seasonal average.
There were 4,664 new listings of detached, attached and apartment properties last month, a 15.4 per cent increase from a year earlier, as new listings were 4.8 per cent above the 10-year seasonal average.
If they just level out for a long while, it will give wages a chance to catch up… it should only take a couple of centuries, right?
But honestly, I am curious what the math would look like on house prices holding steady, with inflation still acting on everything else, until housing is again affordable.
Did some quick math based on a CTV article. The article claims $347,000 is what would constitute “affordable” with Vancouver’s 2021 median household income. Applying inflation the the “affordable house figure” based on the assumption that all the factors that are used to calculate that figure are being effected proportionally, works out to 60 years for the median house for sale in Vancouver to be considered affordable to the household with the median income.
I actually did the math on this a while back.
Wage inflation is slower than CPI inflation, so if you used the average wage inflation rate from the last 30 years it came out to reaching Affordable* housing in Victoria, BC in around 80-90 years assuming housing prices stay fixed.
*Affordable is using the government definition of 3x median family income.
Essentially everyone currently alive needs to be dead…