The critical detail: the ratio only means something by property type and by neighbourhood<\/strong>. City-wide condos can sit in a deep buyer\u2019s market while West Side detached homes behave completely differently \u2014 the blended average will mislead you in both directions.<\/p>\n At the current pace of sales, how many months would it take to sell everything listed? It is the same story told another way: about 6 months is balance<\/strong>; under 4 leans to sellers; beyond 7\u20138 is firmly buyer territory. Before you price a home or write an offer, work out the months of inventory for your exact segment \u2014 it anchors every negotiation.<\/p>\n West Side detached supply is structurally scarce \u2014 the land simply exists in fixed quantity \u2014 and its buyers are mostly end users trading up or down, who are less rate-sensitive than the investor money that drives condo towers. So Shaughnessy or Point Grey\u2019s best homes can draw multiple offers while city-wide headlines call the market cold \u2014 and the reverse can be true in condo-dense pockets during hot markets. Always decide at the level of your property type on your street, never on a city average.<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m Jack Zhu, a RE\/MAX Select Properties realtor focused on Vancouver\u2019s West Side. Call 604-889-1640 and I\u2019ll send you this month\u2019s ratios and inventory for your neighbourhood and property type \u2014 the numbers, not the headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIs it a buyer\u2019s market or a seller\u2019s market right now?\u201d is the question I hear most \u2014 and the answer never lives in a headline. It lives in three numbers. Here is how to judge the state of any segment of the Metro Vancouver market yourself, whether you are buying or selling. Number 1: the sales-to-active listings ratio This is the ratio the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-price","category-real-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Inside](\"https:\/\/jackrealty.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/interior14-webp.webp\")
Number 2: months of inventory<\/h2>\n
Number 3: sale-to-list price and days on market<\/h2>\n
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Why the West Side so often disagrees with the city<\/h2>\n
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How to use it<\/h2>\n
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