🇨🇦 CA · British Columbia
Vancouver.
Where the housing market sits.
Canada's most-expensive metro on price-to-income — foreign-buyer policy, geographic constraints, and persistent affordability politics.
Updated 20h ago
Latest data: 2026-03-01
StatsCan NHPI Vancouver · BoC · 2021 Census
Vancouver sits in Expensive Stagnation — unaffordable and stalled. Affordability scores 10/100 and momentum 7/100.
City gauges
Affordability
10
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (CAD)
- CA$1,190,000City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (CAD)
- CA$90,000Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 81.1%30-year amortized payment at current rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
7
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- -2.5%Latest available city-level YoY HPI delta.
- Months of supply
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
- Days on market
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
Regime · What the gauges say together
Expensive stagnation
Unaffordable and prices not rising in real terms.
Unaffordable, but no longer rising.
Context
| Real price growth (3-mo annualized) | -8% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 6.6% |
| CPI year-over-year | 2.39% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | +2.4% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 3/4 |
Data sources for Vancouver
- REBGV monthly reports
- CREA HPI Vancouver component
- BC government housing data
Full source documentation on /data-sources.
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