House Values Drop 11 Percent in Vancouver, Stabilize or Rise Elsewhere in BC

House Values Drop 11 Percent in Vancouver, Stabilize or Rise Elsewhere in BC
A real estate sign outside a home in Vancouver on June 12, 2018. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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VANCOUVER—Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values have fallen dramatically.

“It’s an annual rite of passage that on Jan. 1, you say ‘Happy New Year’ and then you immediately check your property assessment and then your neighbour’s,” joked Andy Yan, director of Simon Fraser University’s City Program.