Watch BCREA Chief Economist Brendon Ogmundson discuss the May 2025 statistics.

Posted Jun 16, 2025 by Brendon Ogmundson

In this Market Intelligence report, we look at the impact of uncertainty on the BC housing market and explore what comes next.

Posted May 15, 2025 by Brendon Ogmundson

In this Market Intelligence report, we explore several potential US tariff scenarios and their implications for the BC housing market.

Posted Feb 04, 2025 by Brendon Ogmundson

Despite BC’s increased construction pace, more aggressive reforms and a major construction workforce expansion are needed to improve housing affordability in the province.

Posted Sep 05, 2024 by Brendon Ogmundson

In this Market Intelligence, we will look at the potential impact of this policy on the BC housing market and draw out some of its potential consequences.

Posted Mar 07, 2024 by Brendon Ogmundson

In this market intelligence, we take the example of Auckland as indicative of what a policy of aggressive housing liberalization and upzoning could achieve in the BC housing market.

Posted Sep 26, 2023 by Brendon Ogmundson

In this Market Intelligence, we show that the pattern of new listings we see is, in fact, a usual outcome of current market dynamics and underlying economic fundamentals.

Posted May 25, 2023 by Brendon Ogmundson

The latest Market Intelligence report summarizes how past Canadian recessions have impacted the BC economy and housing market and look forward to how the BC housing market may perform during a potential 2023 recession.

Posted Jan 19, 2023 by Brendon Ogmundson

BCREA reports that a total of 11,070 residential unit sales were recorded by the MLS® in June 2021.

Posted Jul 12, 2021 by Brendon Ogmundson

Featuring a conversation with BCREA legal counsel for Standard Forms Jamie Matthews.

Posted Nov 26, 2020 by Shaheed Devji

The 2020 COVID-19 driven recession will be deep, though the duration may be shorter than past recessions…

Posted Apr 20, 2020 by Brendon Ogmundson