
The August 2018 Buyers Survey Results are now out for Kelowna Real Estate Buyers and the Central Okanagan Area.
I am pleased to report that after a very low July, First-time Buyers were more active in the market increasing from 11.8% to 15.8%, and then not surprisingly there was an increase in higher ratio Financing from 8.9% to 114.9%. The biggest fall being 'Downsizing Buyers from 16.2% to 11.1%.
More Couples without children were active - increasing from 19.2% to 24.9%.
There were a few more local people buying last month up from 53.5% to 55.7%. Lower Mainland Buyers held steady at 20.5% just slightly down from July's 21.1%, while Alberta Buyers were up from 8.8% to 11.9%. In other areas of BC, Buyers were down from 10.2% to 7.2%.
As far as areas go, Shuswap saw an increase in Buyers from 9.7% to 13.9%, while the number of Buyers in Kelowna, West Kelowna and Vernon were slightly down.
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