If you’re thinking of moving to Canada or if you’re looking for a second home or investment property, est-ce un bon moment pour acheter?

En Colombie-Britannique, l' B.C. Association des agents immobiliers (BCREA) is forecasting that residential sales prices will decline 13 pour cent dans 2009, with the majority of the drop to occur between now and the summer.

In the Canadian real estate market à l'échelle nationale, housing prices are still expected to fall, mais pas de façon aussi importante av. J.-C.. Selon le Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement, average prices are expected to decline approximately 5.2 percent in 2009, tout en 2010, les prix vont se stabiliser, seeing little change from 2009.

Cependant, in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, BCREA chief economist Cameron Muir said, “If you compare today versus a year ago, investing in real estate is more attractive than it was then.”

Il a poursuivi en disant que, due both to falling prices and lower interest rates, “For both investors and home buyers, votre mortgage payment would be several hundred dollars less than a year ago.”

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