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01The lead · April 2026

№ 47April 2026 · Market read

The Westside seller's market is finally cracking — what the next 90 days look like.

Six factors moved against sellers in the past six weeks. Here's the comp file we'd use to underwrite a buy in West Side, North Shore, and the Burrard pockets if we were buying for ourselves this spring.

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02Recent entries

№ 46March 2026 · Buyer playbook

First-time buyer math: what $1.4M actually buys you on the West Side

Three property types, three offer strategies, three places it would make sense to walk away.

6 min

№ 45March 2026 · Seller's case file

Annotated: how a Yaletown townhouse sold $40K over ask in 9 days

Pricing decision, photography brief, the showing-window discipline, and the offer-week timeline.

11 min

№ 44February 2026 · Market read

What the Bank of Canada hold means for Vancouver inventory

Three months of pent-up sellers about to list, plus the lender behavior that's worth tracking.

9 min

03The archive

№ 43Feb 2026Reading the spring 2026 detached market: where the comp file is moving fastestRead →
№ 42Jan 2026Off-market intros: how 30% of our deals never hit the MLSRead →
№ 41Dec 2025Year-end review: 248 closings, what every seller and buyer should learn from themRead →
№ 40Nov 2025The condo / townhouse spread is wider than at any point since 2019Read →
№ 39Oct 2025Pricing-discipline: the test we run on every Cardinal listingRead →
№ 38Sep 2025School-catchment analysis for Westside Vancouver, by schoolRead →
№ 37Sep 2025Reno-vs-tear-down: when the math actually works in 2025Read →

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