{"id":1298,"date":"2022-03-07T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/rod-rhea-ryan-hayes-neighbourhood-first-quarter-overview-mortgage-rates-increase-stress-test-sales-stock-supply-low-buyers-royal-lepage-sterling-expensive-hot-housing-record-sellers-average-asking-pri\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:04","slug":"rod-rhea-ryan-hayes-neighbourhood-first-quarter-overview-mortgage-rates-increase-stress-test-sales-stock-supply-low-buyers-royal-lepage-sterling-expensive-hot-housing-record-sellers-average-asking-pri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/rod-rhea-ryan-hayes-neighbourhood-first-quarter-overview-mortgage-rates-increase-stress-test-sales-stock-supply-low-buyers-royal-lepage-sterling-expensive-hot-housing-record-sellers-average-asking-pri\/","title":{"rendered":"REBGV Q1 Housing Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"markedContent\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 559.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.94151);\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 241.537px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.939855);\" dir=\"ltr\">The resale housing market moved in two bursts in 2021 with composite benchmark prices increasing 11% between <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 265.537px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.93554);\" dir=\"ltr\">January and June and a further 4% increase between September and December. With inventory drawn down to <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 289.537px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.926122);\" dir=\"ltr\">around 5,600 listings at the end of January 2022, today&rsquo;s market is unable to absorb even modest increases in <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 313.537px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.961302);\" dir=\"ltr\">demand without moving prices substantially. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"markedContent\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 559.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.94151);\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 385.757px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.936494);\" dir=\"ltr\">With persistently strong demand and new listings unable to keep up, benchmark prices have risen 36% for detached, <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 409.757px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.93657);\" dir=\"ltr\">28% for attached, and 13% for apartments since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in March of 2020. Looking <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 433.757px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.938155);\" dir=\"ltr\">ahead into 2022, home price growth will come back toward longer-term averages as rising mortgage rates, and price <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 457.757px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.933171);\" dir=\"ltr\">levels squeeze some potential buyers out of the market. As can be seen below, even a normalizing of the number of <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 481.757px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.938312);\" dir=\"ltr\">buyers and sellers in the market will take 18 to 24 months for the listings inventory to recover from the severe <\/span><span style=\"left: 27.334px; top: 505.757px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940512);\" dir=\"ltr\">drawdown that&rsquo;s ocurred in the market since the fall of 2020.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span class=\"markedContent\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 751.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940851);\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span style=\"left: 119.641px; top: 887.127px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.27833);\" dir=\"ltr\">Highlights<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"markedContent\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 751.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940851);\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span style=\"left: 36.9377px; top: 559.671px; font-family: sans-serif;\" dir=\"ltr\">&bull;<\/span><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 559.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.94151);\" dir=\"ltr\">Listings remain stubbornly scarce in the early part of 2022, inventory will not build until sales fall;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"left: 36.9377px; top: 607.671px; font-family: sans-serif;\" dir=\"ltr\">&bull;<\/span><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 607.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.933022);\" dir=\"ltr\">Mortgage rates are expected to rise and the stress-test rate is expected to remain  at in 2022;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"left: 36.9377px; top: 655.671px; font-family: sans-serif;\" dir=\"ltr\">&bull;<\/span><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 655.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.939183);\" dir=\"ltr\">Sales are expected to fall from 2021 levels due to deteriorating affordability;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"left: 36.9377px; top: 703.671px; font-family: sans-serif;\" dir=\"ltr\">&bull;<\/span><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 703.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.926966);\" dir=\"ltr\">Extreme upward price pressure remains at the start of 2022;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"left: 36.9377px; top: 751.671px; font-family: sans-serif;\" dir=\"ltr\">&bull;<\/span><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 751.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940851);\" dir=\"ltr\">Prices are expected to rise in 2022, but the majority of upward moves will happen in the  rst half of the year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"markedContent\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 751.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940851);\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"markedContent\"><span style=\"left: 55.2977px; top: 751.671px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.940851);\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/members.rebgv.org\/news\/REBGV-Q1-2022-Housing-Overview.pdf?_cldee=aGF5ZXNAcm9kcmhlYXJ5YW4uY29t&amp;recipientid=contact-a0e74a360f77e811a95c000d3af49c44-2f973710f5834976b9dfe326a9d02c08&amp;esid=fdf947e7-9599-ec11-b3fe-000d3a09df1c\">For More Information: CLICK HERE<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resale housing market moved in two bursts in 2021 with composite benchmark prices increasing 11% between January and June and a further 4% increase between &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodrhearyan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}