From the ashes of COVID, real estate in Kelowna rose like a phoenix in 2020.
In what should have been a disaster for economic activity in all respects, 5,757 homes of all types (single-family homes, townhouses, condos, cell phones, and maisonettes and triplexes) were sold in the central Okanagan, a surprising increase of 26% 4,549 sales in 2019.
Prices also skyrocketed.
The average sales price of a detached single family home hit a record high of $ 801,735 in 2020.
It was also a record $ 854,387 in December, a staggering 26% increase from $ 679,304 in December 2019.
The Association of Interior Realtors is aiming for a reference price that it believes is a better representation of value as it represents a home with typical attributes for those sold in the area and is not skewed by some really expensive homes selling and raising the price on average .
In December, the reference retail price for a single family home was $ 746,800, up 13 percent year over year.
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The price for single family houses is typically used as a barometer for the market.
However, townhouses and condos make up nearly half of total sales in the central Okanagan.
The average December townhouse retail price was $ 560,782, up 15% year over year, and a condo was $ 407,000, 12% higher than December 2019.
The corresponding December reference prices for a townhouse were $ 505,000 and a condominium was $ 399,000.
The Association of Interior Realtors, which represents 1,600 realtors, was formed on January 1 when the Okanagan Mainline (Central and North Okanagan, Shuswap and Revelstoke), South Okanagan and South Peace River Region real estate agencies merged.
December residential property sales in the Revelstoke to Peachland area were 661, a whopping 65% increase over the same month last year.
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