Market history
Ten years of Metro Vancouver prices, sales and listings
Year-end benchmark prices and annual activity, transcribed from published Greater Vancouver REALTORS® statistics packages — with the source and reporting period stated for every figure, and blanks left where a number could not be confirmed.
Calendar years 2016 through 2025, with 2026 year-to-date benchmarks through August 2026 · Last reviewed September 10, 2026
What the last decade looked like
Composite benchmark, Dec 2017 → Aug 2026
$1,050,300 → $1,081,900
Prices peaked in 2021–2022 and have eased for three consecutive years since.
2025 annual sales and listings
23,800 sales · 65,335 listings
The lowest annual sales total in over two decades, alongside the highest listing total since the mid-1990s.
Annual sales, 2016 → 2025
39,943 → 23,800
A 40% decline in annual sales across the decade, with the 2021 peak of 43,999 in between.
Benchmark price by property type
Metro Vancouver, MLS® Home Price Index benchmark in December of each year; 2026 shows the latest published month (August).
Gaps in the townhouse line are years whose benchmark could not be confirmed in a published release; they are left blank rather than estimated.
Homes sold each year
Metro Vancouver MLS® residential sales, full calendar year.
Annual totals as reported by GVR/REBGV year-end releases.
New listings each year
Metro Vancouver properties newly listed on the MLS®, full calendar year.
More new listings usually means more choice for buyers and more competition for sellers.
How to read a ten-year chart
A long series shows how much conditions change — and how differently property types move. Between 2017 and 2024 detached benchmarks travelled far further in dollar terms than apartments, while sales volumes swung by tens of thousands of transactions a year.
None of this tells you what your street, your building or your property will do. Ask Borna for the figures that match your community, property type and timeline, with the source for each one.
Year-by-year figures
| Year | Composite | Detached | Townhouse | Apartment | Sales | New listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTDLatest published month: August 2026. Full-year sales and listing totals are not yet available. | $1,081,900 | $1,799,400 | $1,028,800 | $686,200 | Not published | Not published |
| 2025 | $1,114,800 | $1,879,800 | $1,056,600 | $710,000 | 23,800 | 65,335 |
| 2024 | $1,171,500 | $1,997,000 | Not published | $749,900 | 26,561 | 60,388 |
| 2023 | $1,168,700 | $1,964,400 | $1,072,700 | $751,300 | 26,249 | 50,893 |
| 2022 | $1,114,300 | $1,823,300 | $1,012,700 | $713,700 | 28,903 | 53,865 |
| 2021 | $1,230,200 | $1,910,200 | $1,004,900 | $761,800 | 43,999 | 62,265 |
| 2020 | $1,047,400 | $1,554,600 | $813,900 | $676,500 | 30,944 | 54,305 |
| 2019 | $1,001,000 | $1,423,500 | $778,400 | $656,700 | 25,351 | 51,918 |
| 2018 | $1,032,400 | $1,479,000 | $809,700 | $664,100 | 24,619 | 53,614 |
| 2017 | $1,050,300 | $1,605,800 | Not published | $655,400 | 35,993 | 54,655 |
| 2016 | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | 39,943 | 57,596 |
Source and limitations
Data source: Greater Vancouver REALTORS® (GVR, formerly REBGV), December MLS® statistics packages and monthly market reports. Calendar years 2016 through 2025, with 2026 year-to-date benchmarks through August 2026. Figures were last reviewed on September 10, 2026 and are not updated automatically.
- Prices shown are the December MLS® Home Price Index benchmark for each year — an index estimate of a typical home, not an average of what sold and not a valuation of any particular property. The 2026 year-to-date row shows the most recently published month (August 2026).
- The 2016 benchmarks and two townhouse benchmarks (2017 and 2024) are left blank because they could not be confirmed in a published GVR release. Nothing on this page is estimated or interpolated.
- GVR's January 5, 2026 release confirmed 2025 as the lowest annual sales total in over two decades (23,800 sales) alongside a record 65,335 new listings — the highest annual total since the mid-1990s.
- Figures cover the Metro Vancouver area reported by GVR. Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford, Mission and Chilliwack are reported by other boards and are not included.
- History describes what has already happened. It is not a forecast, and it does not predict what your home will sell for or what you will pay.
The current month, in the same detail
The latest published update covers August 2026. Read the current market update.