Vancouver Island Real Estate - on all of Vancouver Island,  including both the Victoria and Vancouver Island Real Estate Boards (VREB and VIREB) there was a total of 822 properties sold in October 2022. For the report on VREB numbers click HERE. Looking at the VIREB numbers here, there was a total of 342 sales in that area, 429 of which were single-family homes, 42 were condos, and 51 were townhomes. Here is a breakdown of year-over-year and month-over-month percentages for each property segment:

In some areas of the island, the Cowichan Valley, for example, October was one of the lowest sales volumes for the month of October in the last 10 years.

Inventory of single-family homes dropped 4% from September with 1,360 listings on the market at the end of October (this is triple what was available at the end of October 2021). There were 314 condos, down 5% from the previous month, and 296 townhomes on the market (roughly the same as the previous month).

VIREB board-wide single-family homes hit a benchmark price of $787,500 while condos hit $414,200 and townhomes came in at $583,900. Here is a regional breakdown of benchmark prices and year-over-year changes for single-family homes (all are down from their respective peaks):

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