Real Estate on the Sunshine Coast Continues to be a hot commodity.  Prices are up 16% and the dollar Volume of Sales has climbed 158% from last year!  Inventory is at its lowest in 8 years.  We have new buyers contacting us everyday and we need homes to sell them.  The Market continues to be a Sellers Market and we are seeing many mulitple offer situations with offers coming in well over asking price. If you are considering selling, NOW is the time!  Contact us for a free home evaluation and we would be happy to discuss your real estate needs.

Fundraiser for the local elementary school PAC's

Come and Join us on Friday April 1st for a pre-release showing of the new Star Wars Movie. Admission is $2.00 with proceeds going to Gibsons PAC. The Cedar Grove PAC will be hosting the concession stand. Doors open at 6:00 with the movie starting at 6:30. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Sunshine Coast Real Estate March Update. With the low inventory of homes currently for sale and the high demand, prices continue to climb. Gibsons, Roberts Creek, Sechelt, Halfmoon Bay and the entire sunshine Coast continues to see record breaking increases in Sales and Prices. If you are thinking of selling now is the time to get your house on the market. Give us a call and we will be happy to give you a no obligation opinion of value on your home. 604 865 1923. The Coast Team - Ed Aiken & Allen Stevenson

Come and join us for our 4th Annual Family Day event. Once again we're setting up in the Gym at Gibsons Elementary School on Monday the 8th of February at 3:00 in the afternoon. Admission is a non-perishable food bank item and feel free to bring a pillow to sit on (we will have chairs too). The Concession will be run by the Gibsons Elementary PAC with all proceeds going to them. Doors open at 2:30.

Sunshine Coast Real Estate 2015 Year in Review.  Average Sales price is up.  Inventory is down 21.4%, Homes sold is up 33%, Dollar Volume is up.  This is a balanced market, headed towards a Sellers Market. Gibsons prices are up 13.7%, Roberts Creek Prices are up 11% and Sechelt prices are up 11.6%.  (one year change for 2015)

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This week The Coast Team is proud to be sponsoring the Gibson's Public Art Gallery's Star Wars Exhibit.

Come down over the weekend and check out the fantastic original art as well as a huge array of collectables and memorabilia.  There's also a green screen set up for showing how some of the Movie Magic Works.

See you all there!!

Gibsons & Sechelt Statistics

Sunshine Coast Real Estate is very active at the moment.

Days on the market have come down and many houses are selling within a week of hitting the market.  So if you are interested in purchasing be prepared to move quickly.  Sales to Active listings is up so this market is starting to lean towards a Sellers market.  Inventory is down and homes are selling for roughly 95.% of the list price.  Sales are significantly up from last year.  If you are thinking of Buying given the current state of the Market in December of 2015 you should be prepared for Seller's to be less open to lower offers and possibly competing against other Buyer's that have been waiting and who have missed out on other properties.  If this trend continues given simple Economics of supply and demand prices should be continue to climb and more buyers may be looking to get into the market as interest rates appear to be going up.

If you would like more information on the Market please do not hesitate in contact the Coast Team for a detailed anaylsis.

Sold by the Coast team...981 Cheryl Ann Park Road

We are happy for Adam and Elyse that they have sold their house and sad to be saying goodbye to some great friends.  See you in Kimberley!  

Three days left to donate to the 2015 REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive 

Re/Max Top Performers are busy Collecting Blankets and clothing for the people that really need them.

All donations remain in the community in which they were collected!

The 21st annual REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive wraps up on Monday, November 23.

The recent wet and cold weather has increased the need for blankets and warm clothing across the region. Some shelters are experiencing difficulty keeping up with demand. 

“One charity ran out of blankets and contacted us for help earlier this week,” Darcy McLeod, Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver president said. “One of our volunteers delivered a load of donations within a few hours to help them re-stock and meet the growing demand for warm clothing.”

Residents can drop off donations at any of the more than 100 participating real estate offices throughout the region.Click here for a list of participating offices.

Clothing items we’re looking for: 

• blankets, sleeping bags

• warm clothing - coats, jeans, pants, sweaters

• scarves, gloves, mitts, hats

• socks (new) 

• underwear (new) 

Each year, the REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive provides warm clothing and blankets to more than 19,000 Lower Mainland residents in need. Since the Blanket Drive began in 1995, the program has helped more than 275,000 people in our communities keep warm and dry during the winter months.

All donations remain in the community in which they were collected. Click here for a video overview of how the Blanket Drive helps local charities and residents. 

For more information on the program, go to www.blanketdrive.ca or www.facebook.com/BlanketDrive.

 The Coast Team is offering their Clients that list their homes a state of the Art 3D rendering of their homes with Floor Plans that allows potential buyers to get a full experience of their home.  Buyer's appreciate this information when looking at homes and find it useful in making their buying decisions.

November 16 - 23, 2015

• gently used or new blankets or sleeping bags
• warm clothing
• coats
• hats
• gloves
• new socks and underwear

Thanks again everyone who attended and supported our 9th Annual Pumpkin Party at Perspheone Beer Farm on the Beautiful Sunshine Coast.  The Coast Team feels it is important to give back to the community and are very proud of the results for the Food Bank.  

The Salvation Army Food Bank receiving a cheque for $565.00 from the Coast Team

This years prize winners

Wow oh Wow. Such a beautiful day on the Sunshine Coast. What an amazing turnout! We couldn't be more thankful to all our wonderful friends and clients for making our Pumpkin Carving Party such a huge success. We gave away 4 full bins of pumpkins (3000 lbs)for a trailer load full of food bank donations. With our concession stand and cash donations we raised over $550 dollars, all of which will also be donated to the local food bank. We look forward to our 10th year in 2016!! Thanks again to everyone.

The Coast Team - Allen Stevenson and Ed Aiken - Re/Max Top Performers

Now that March is upon us and the Sun is poking out from behind the clouds from time to time more people's thoughts begin to drift to dreams of Real Estate.  Springtime is typically the busy time of year in the market and for a good reason, things actually begin to look nice again!  Nothing helps curb appeal like a blossoming cherry tree or row of blooming daffodils.  For those Albertan buyers the simple lack of snow banks in February is enough to inspire them to buy a house.

The most frequently asked question of me at this time of year is "How's the Market going to be this year".  As usual my crystal ball has been on the fritz and the Magic 8 ball continues to mock me with replies of "Ask again Later".  What I am able to do though, is look into the past and use this information to try and paint a picture of the future.  The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver provides us with enough statistics to bore even the most interested of economists to death but there are a couple of choice figures that I think are interesting. 

The first of these has to do with median sale prices on the coast.  If we take a look at the 12 month period leading up February 2013 and compare it with the previous two years ranging less than $10,000 in the past 3 years. 

If we continue to see low rates in mortgages, then I expect that this trend will continue this year as well.  Things are taking longer to sell and it's not a lot of fun to be a seller in a time crunch but for the most part prices are stable and many sellers are choosing to wait for the right buyer rather than slashing thier prices.

The other statistic that is interesting to look at as we move into the spring is the level of inventory coming on the market.  For the last couple of years February has seen huge surges in listing inventory, evidenced by every other house having a "For Sale" sign in front of it.  This past February has been a bit more subdued:

Now keep in mind that our total listing count on the Coast is still pretty high, and it's still early in the season but if this trend continues then it could make the market more favourable to sellers as reduced inventory will force buyers to be less choosy about what they want.

If you have any questions about the market and how it pertains to your house specifically then please give me a call and I'd be happy to go over the statistics in your neighborhood with you.

Allen