MLS Listings, News & Statistics
The Kamloops and District Real Estate Association has released it’s latest statistics for May 2012. Click on the image to enlarge.
Kamloops Real Estate Comparative Analysis by Property Type May 2012
Kamloops Real Estate Statistics Sales by Subarea May 2012
Kamloops Real Estate MLS Activity May 2012
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – June 14, 2012) – According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Second quarter Housing Market Outlook British Columbia Highlights Report, housing starts in British Columbia are forecast to increase in 2012 and 2013.
“Home builders are expected to gradually ramp up residential construction in response to positive signals from the resale market and economic developments,” explained Carol Frketich, CMHC’s BC Regional Economist.
Housing starts are forecast to increase to 28,600 homes in 2012 and 30,100 homes in 2013. This increase in residential construction follows a period of stable home building in 2011. Job creation and population growth will boost single-detached home starts in 2012 and 2013. Multiple-family home starts will continue their upward trend.
The resale market is forecast to maintain balanced supply and demand conditions in 2012. A slightly higher sales-to-new listings ratio, reflecting stronger demand for ownership housing, is projected for 2013 alongside an expected modest pick-up in economic growth. Sales of existing homes are forecast to increase to 79,100 MLS®1 transactions in 2012 and 82,400 in 2013. The annual average MLS® price is forecast to moderate slightly to $548,100 in 2012 and increase to $566,900 in 2013.
More detailed CMHC housing market forecasts are available for the Vancouver, Abbotsford-Mission, Victoria and Kelowna Census Metropolitan Areas in the suite of Housing Market Outlook Reports available online. Forecasts for Prince George, Kamloops and Nanaimo are available in the Housing Market Outlook British Columbia Highlights Report.
As Canada’s national housing agency, CMHC draws on more than 65 years of experience to help Canadians access a variety of high quality, environmentally sustainable and affordable housing solutions. CMHC also provides reliable, impartial and up-to-date housing market reports, analysis and knowledge to support and assist consumers and the housing industry in making informed decisions.
For more information, and to download CMHC’s housing reports, please visit CMHC’s website at www.cmhc.ca/housingmarketinformation or call 1-800-668-2642.
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This article appeared in the Kamloops This Week on June 7th, 2012 and was written by Andrea Klassen.
A jump in residential construction, coupled with some big-ticket projects on the horizon, has the city of Kamloops rethinking its building-permit estimates for 2012.
In May, the city issued about $20 million in residential permits, more than double the $8.7 million it issued in 2011.
The permits included 15 new single family dwellings and 115 new multi-family units.
In May 2011, the number of multi-family units added was eight.
Acting director of development services Kundan Bubbar said developers are rushing to fill a residential void left by several quiet construction years.
“For the last couple years, we haven’t seen too many new residential houses being built,” he said.
“Now, the inventory is almost diminishing and builders are taking advantage of low rates and also the demand in the market.”
Permits are being issued mainly in Aberdeen, Westsyde, Batchelor Heights and Juniper.
To date, the city has issued more that $79 million in permits, up from $68 million at this time last year.
While the city had expected to issue between $120 and $140 million in permits this year, Bubbar said it’s now looking like Kamloops will be on par with last year, when permits totalled just over $162 million.
“It shows the city is not in the same position as the other Okanagan cities are, where things are slowing down,” he said.
“We are still doing better than the average.”
Commercial construction is also up slightly over last year, with $2.8 million in permits, compared to 2011’s $1.5 million.
Bubbar said there are also a few major projects coming which should keep permit stats high, including the $30-million Telus Data Centre, which is expected to finish the permitting process later this year, and several seniors’ residences in the works for the North Shore.