• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    They did drop for us in Vancouver. I’m not suggesting it accounts for the high prices everywhere but it definetly had a market affect as airbnb people dumped their additional units. One owner had over 40

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      4 hours ago

      Or it just happened to coincide with a massive jump in interest rates which also affected prices elsewhere that didn’t implement these policies.

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        3 hours ago

        No there are articles about the affect upon announcement and then institution

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          3 hours ago

          and yet if you go look at the charts for say Vancouver and Toronto over the same period of time you can clearly see there’s little to no effect from BC’s policy changes.

          And it’s still a couple million dollars to buy a detached home in Vancouver, and the cheapest 2 bedroom condo is a half million (and it’s literally on East Hastings) with most normal 2 bedrooms being listed at $600-700k

          These policies haven’t made anything affordable, and they aren’t going to make things affordable.

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            1 hour ago

            Oh they didn’t make it affordable, I just meant we saw price drop in market and assessments. Prices here are ridiculous. We paid 415k for 2 bedroom apartment, now it is 575k but before the changes they were selling for 675k sight unseen, just buyers snapping them up