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This page is your entry point to the Vancouver Island real estate market. The three visuals below work together to show what is happening right now and where the numbers have been, so you can see the direction rather than a single month in isolation.
How We Use These Insights
- 30 Day Market Movement. A tight snapshot of new listings, sales, price and days on market. This helps answer how many days it will take to sell.
- 12 Months to Date. Rolling sales and price trends across the year. This helps answer whether the market is rising, flat or cooling.
- MLS Activity Feed. Live sold, active and pending data. This confirms what buyers are actually paying rather than what sellers are asking.
Start with the search below to set your own filters, then read the three visuals in order.
MARKET SNAPSHOT
(AUG 06, 2026 - SEP 05, 2026)
MARKET SNAPSHOT
Market Trends
Vancouver Island: 30 Day Market Movement
- What it shows. Homes sold, average sold price and average days on market for the last 30 days, each with its change against the previous period.
- Why it matters. It is the closest thing to a live reading. Rising sales with falling days on market is a market absorbing inventory, and falling sales with a rising average usually means the mix of what sold changed rather than that values moved.
- Key question answered. What is happening in the market right now, and how long a listing is currently taking to sell.
Market Trends
Vancouver Island: 12 Months to Date
- What it shows. The same measures across a full year, plotted month by month so the shape of the year is visible.
- Why it matters. A single month can swing hard in a small market. Twelve months washes that noise out, and it also exposes the seasonality on this Island, where spring and early summer carry more listings and more sales than the winter months.
- Key question answered. Whether the market is rising, flat or cooling, and whether the last 30 days is a direction or a wobble.
RECENT LISTINGS
Vancouver Island MLS Activity Feed
- What it shows. Recent sold listings with address, price and date, updated live rather than compiled monthly.
- Why it matters. An asking price is an opinion and a sold price is a transaction. This is the only place on the page where you see what a buyer actually paid, which makes it the most useful section for anyone working out what their own property is worth.
- Key question answered. What comparable homes in this area have genuinely sold for, and how recently.
Vancouver Island Real Estate Market Questions
The 30 day movement and the 12 months to date figures on this page are the answer, and they are updated rather than written once. Read them together: the 30 day number tells you what is happening now and the 12 month trend tells you whether it is a direction or a wobble.
It depends entirely on where. The spread between the most affordable and the most expensive communities on this Island is very wide, and an Island wide average tells you almost nothing about a specific place. The two community sections on this page separate the ends of that range.
Broadly, buyers moving from Metro Vancouver find more property for the same money and a smaller selection at any given moment. The comparison only means something community by community, which is what the regional market pages are for.
Sold price is what a buyer actually paid in the market. Assessed value is BC Assessment's estimate for taxation, set at a valuation date that is already months behind. They are different numbers measuring different things and they diverge routinely.
The monthly reports publish month by month and are archived on this page. The 30 day movement and the 12 month trend refresh with the data. The MLS activity feed is live.
That is a decision about your own situation rather than about the market, and anyone who tells you they know where prices go next is guessing. What the data on this page can do is tell you where things stand right now, which is the part that is actually knowable.
A market average will not tell you what your property is worth. What will is recent comparable sales, an honest read of the condition and the specifics of your address. I do not guess your home's value. I prove it, with actual market value and market movement.
Buyer Opportunities on Vancouver Island
Seasonal transitions often bring new listings and more competitive pricing across Vancouver Island. Detached homes and townhomes in Nanaimo, the Cowichan Valley and the Comox Valley are entering the market at a steady pace, creating fresh opportunities for buyers.
These conditions highlight options such as homes with recent price reductions, affordable properties under 500,000 dollars, lifestyle focused choices like waterfront and acreage living, and a growing selection of open houses. Whether you are seeking affordability, a lifestyle upgrade or long term investment potential, the Vancouver Island market carries a range of opportunities.
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