For May 2015, a total of 32 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in UBC.  This is a slight increase from the 31 units that sold in April, and an increase from the 26 units that sold in May 2014.

Of the 32 units that sold last month, 7 were 1-bedroom homes, 21 were 2-bedroom homes, and 4 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes, 2 of those being townhouses.

The average sale price for 1-bedroom strata home in the UBC Campus in May was $497,942, a 2-bedroom strata home had an average sale price of $688,408, while a 3-or-more bedroom strata home had an average sale price of $1,093,250.

The majority of the total units sold last month is from the UBC’s oldest neighbourhood, Hampton Place with 11 units, 2 units from Chancellor Place, 7 units from East Campus, 3 units from Hawthorn Place, and 9 units from Wesbrook Place.

I've lived in the UBC campus for over 10 years. I love this area and all it has to offer, and I enjoy sharing what I know about my home. As a REALTOR®, I also love to share my expertise in this area as well. If you are thinking of listing your UBC property, or for a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.

For April 2015, a total of 31 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in UBC.  This is an increase from the 23 units that sold in March, and an increase from the 24 units that sold in April 2014.

Of the 31 units that sold last month, 3 were 1-bedroom homes, 20 were 2-bedroom homes, and 8 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes, 2 of those being townhouses.

The average sale price for 1-bedroom strata home in the UBC Campus in April was $397,533, a 2-bedroom strata home had an average sale price of $769,555, while a 3-or-more bedroom strata home had an average sale price of $1,039,600.

The majority of the total units sold last month is from the UBC’s newest and largest neighbourhood, Wesbrook Place with 10 units, 4 units from Chancellor Place, 6 units from East Campus, 4 units from Hawthorn Place, and 7 units from Hampton Place.

I've lived in the UBC campus for over 10 years. I love this area and all it has to offer, and I enjoy sharing what I know about my home. As a REALTOR®, I also love to share my expertise in this area as well. If you are thinking of listing your UBC property, or for a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.

You are driving in your car and just discovered the perfect neighbourhood.  You see the cutest house around the corner and wonder how much it is.  

Pull over to the side and try our mobile friendly setting to search all the for sale listings in the area.  Just click on the tab "MLS Listing by iPhone or Smart Phone", then click OK to let the application locate you on the map.  It's very easy and so convenient to use.

Canada comes in at #5 in UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network's 2015 World Happiness Report, ahead of the US, the UK, and Australia.  The report takes into account GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and perceptions of corruption.  

For the full report click here.

For March 2015, a total of 23 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in UBC.  This is an increase from the 15 units that sold in February, and an increase from the 15 units that sold in March 2014.

Of the 23 units that sold last month, 3 were 1-bedroom homes, 11 were 2-bedroom homes, and 9 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes, 5 of those being townhouses.

The average sale price for 1-bedroom strata home in the UBC Campus in March was $406,633, a 2-bedroom strata home had an average sale price of $615,127, while a 3-or-more bedroom strata home had an average sale price of $1,037,666.

The majority of the total units sold last month is from the UBC’s oldest neighbourhood, Hampton Place with 7 units, 2 units from Chancellor Place, 5 units from East Campus, 3 units from Hawthorn Place, and 6 units from Wesbrook Place.

I've lived in the UBC campus for over 10 years. I love this area and all it has to offer, and I enjoy sharing what I know about my home. As a REALTOR®, I also love to share my expertise in this area as well. If you are thinking of listing your UBC property, or for a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.

Updated data with new numbers April 16, 2015

Here's another reason why you should live in UBC, if you work or go to school in the UBC campus.  

Amsterdam-based GPS/navigation company, TomTom recently released their fifth annual traffic index, with Vancouver coming in 20th worldwide and 1st in Canada, receiving a 35% Congestion Level, the increase in overall travel time when compared from a free flow situation.  

The most congested cities in Canada are:

1. Vancouver (world rank 20)

2. Toronto  (world rank 47)

3. Ottawa (world rank 59)

4. Montreal (world rank 75)

5. Edmonton (world rank 97)

6. Calgary (world rank 101) 

My friend, Vince, is building a laneway house behind the Vancouver house he grew up in.  He is documenting the entire process in an informative blog: thelanewayhouse.com.  Follow along as he goes from finding the right architectural design, to acquiring the building permits from the city, to finding furniture to fit the contemporary look of the home, while befitting his growing family and staying within his budget.

Vince hired Lanefab, a local Vancouver company specializing in laneway houses, to build his future home.  Demolition and excavation started just over a month ago in February, and we catch up with the project as the framing and roof are completed.   

For February 2015, a total of 15 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in UBC.  This is a decrease from the 18 units that sold in January, and lower than the 22 units that sold in February 2014.

Of the 15 units that sold last month, 4 was a 1-bedroom home, 4 were 2-bedroom homes, and 7 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes, 6 of which were townhouses.

The majority of the total units sold is from the UBC’s northern most neighbourhood, Chancellor Place with 5 units, 2 units from East Campus, 2 units from Hawthorn Place, 3 units from Hampton Place, and 3 units from Wesbrook Place.

I've lived in the UBC campus for over 10 years. I love this area and all it has to offer, and I enjoy sharing what I know about my home. As a REALTOR®, I also love to share my expertise in this area as well. If you are thinking of listing your UBC property, or for a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.

Mercer released their 2015 Quality of Living Rankings, with Vancouver coming on top for North America and 5th place worldwide.  The rankings are based on Mercer's Quality of Living Survey of expatriates in 230 cities around the world. Toronto and Ottawa followed, at 15 and 16 respectively, and San Francisco (27) and Boston (34) were top amongst US cities on the list.

2015 City Rankings

RankCityCountry

1ViennaAustria

2ZurichSwitzerland

3AucklandNew Zealand

4MunichGermany

5VancouverCanada

6DusseldorfGermany

7FrankfurtGermany

8GenevaSwitzerland

9CopenhagenDenmark

10SydneyAustralia

11AmsterdamNetherlands

12WellingtonNew Zealand

13BernSwitzerland

14BerlinGermany

15TorontoCanada

16HamburgGermany

16MelbourneAustralia

16OttawaCanada

19LuxembourgLuxembourg

19StockholmSweden

21StuttgartGermany

22BrusselsBelgium

22PerthAustralia

24MontrealCanada

25NurnbergGermany

26SingaporeSingapore

27AdelaideAustralia

27ParisFrance

27San FranciscoUnited States

30CanberraAustralia

31HelsinkiFinland

31OsloNorway

33CalgaryCanada

34BostonUnited States

34DublinIreland

36HonoluluUnited States

37BrisbaneAustralia

38BarcelonaSpain

39LyonFrance

40LondonUnited Kingdom

41LisbonPortugal

41MilanItaly

43ChicagoUnited States

44New York CityUnited States

44SeattleUnited States

44TokyoJapan

47KobeJapan

48Los AngelesUnited States

48YokohamaJapan

50WashingtonUnited States

51MadridSpain

52BirminghamUnited Kingdom

52RomeItaly

54PittsburghUnited States

55GlasgowUnited Kingdom

55PhiladelphiaUnited States

57AberdeenUnited Kingdom

58OsakaJapan

59LeipzigGermany

60MinneapolisUnited States

61NagoyaJapan

62DallasUnited States

63BelfastUnited Kingdom

64HoustonUnited States

65MiamiUnited States

66AtlantaUnited States

67St. LouisUnited States

68PragueCzech Republic

69Pointe-a-PitreGuadeloupe

70DetroitUnited States

70Hong KongHong Kong

72San JuanPuerto Rico

72SeoulSouth Korea

74DubaiUnited Arab Emirates

75BudapestHungary

75LjubljanaSlovenia

77Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates

78MontevideoUruguay

79VilniusLithuania

79WarsawPoland

81BratislavaSlovakia

82Port LouisMauritius

83TaipeiTaiwan

84Kuala LumpurMalaysia

85AthensGreece

85DurbanSouth Africa

87LimassolCyprus

88TallinnEstonia

89RigaLatvia

90BusanSouth Korea

91Buenos AiresArgentina

91Cape TownSouth Africa

93SantiagoChile

94JohannesburgSouth Africa

95Panama CityPanama

96VictoriaSeychelles

97ZagrebCroatia

98CheonanSouth Korea

99TaichungTaiwan

100WroclawPoland

101ShanghaiChina

102Bandar Seri BegawanBrunei

103Johor BahruMalaysia

104MuscatOman

105Tel AvivIsrael

106San JoseCosta Rica

107BrasiliaBrazil

108DohaQatar

109MonterreyMexico

110BucharestRomania

111NoumeaNew Caledonia

112NassauBahamas

113TunisTunisia

114AsuncionParaguay

115SofiaBulgaria

116RabatMorocco

117BangkokThailand

118BeijingChina

119Rio de JaneiroBrazil

120Sao PauloBrazil

121GuangzhouChina

122AmmanJordan

122IstanbulTurkey

124LimaPeru

125Kuwait CityKuwait

126Mexico CityMexico

127ManausBrazil

128CasablancaMorocco

129QuitoEcuador

130ManamaBahrain

131BogotaColombia

132ColomboSri Lanka

133ChengduChina

133WindhoekNamibia

135Santo DomingoDominican Republic

136ManilaPhilippines

137NanjingChina

138HyderabadIndia

139ShenzhenChina

140JakartaIndonesia

141BelgradeSerbia

142Xi'anChina

142ChongqingChina

144GaboroneBotswana

145PuneIndia

146BangaloreIndia

147Port of SpainTrinidad and Tobago

147QingdaoChina

149LusakaZambia

150Guatemala CityGuatemala

151ChennaiIndia

152MumbaiIndia

153Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam

154HanoiVietnam

154New DelhiIndia

156KingstonJamaica

156La PazBolivia

156ShenyangChina

159SkopjeMacedonia

160KolkataIndia

161SarajevoBosnia-Herzegovina

162DakarSenegal

163RiyadhSaudi Arabia

164LibrevilleGabon

165AccraGhana

166JeddahSaudi Arabia

167MoscowRussia

168JilinChina

169KampalaUganda

170CairoEgypt

171VientianeLaos

172San SalvadorEl Salvador

173ManaguaNicaragua

174Saint PetersburgRussia

175AlmatyKazakhstan

176KievUkraine

177BlantyreMalawi

178MaputoMozambique

179CaracasVenezuela

180TiranaAlbania

181BeirutLebanon

182CotonouBenin

183YerevanArmenia

184BanjulGambia

184TegucigalpaHonduras

186NairobiKenya

187AlgiersAlgeria

188DjiboutiDjibouti

189KigaliRwanda

189MinskBelarus

191IslamabadPakistan

192YaoundeCameroon

193HavanaCuba

194TbilisiGeorgia

195Phnom PenhCambodia

196DoualaCameroon

197BakuAzerbaijan

198Dar es SalaamTanzania

199LahorePakistan

200LuandaAngola

201YangonMyanmar

202KarachiPakistan

203TehranIran

204LomeTogo

205Addis AbabaEthiopia

206HarareZimbabwe

206TashkentUzbekistan

208BishkekKyrgyzstan

209AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire

210AshkhabadTurkmenistan

211DhakaBangladesh

211LagosNigeria

213AbujaNigeria

214DushanbeTajikistan

215OuagadougouBurkina Faso

216TripoliLibya

217AntananarivoMadagascar

217NiameyNiger

219BamakoMali

220DamascusSyria

221NouakchottMauritania

222ConakryGuinea

223KinshasaCongo, Democratic Republic of

224BrazzavilleCongo, Republic of

225Sana'aYemen

226N'DjamenaChad

227KhartoumSudan

228Port au PrinceHaiti

229BanguiCentral African Republic

230BaghdadIraq

For January 2015, a total of 18 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in UBC.  This is an increase from the 16 units that sold in December, and equal to the 18 units that sold in January 2014.

Of the 18 units that sold last month, 2 was a 1-bedroom home, 11 were 2-bedroom homes, and 5 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes.

As expected, the majority of the total is from the UBC’s newest and largest neighbourhood, South Campus’ Wesbrook Place (more commonly referred to as Wesbrook Village) with 8 units, 4 units from Hampton Place, 1 unit from Hawthorn Place, 1 unit from Chancellor Place, and 4 units from the East Campus including 2 freehold properties in Acadia.

I've lived in the UBC campus for over 10 years. I love this area and all it has to offer, and I enjoy sharing what I know about my home. As a REALTOR®, I also love to share my expertise in this area as well. If you are thinking of listing your UBC property, or for a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.

For December 2014, a total of 16 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in UBC.  This is an increase from the 14 units that sold in November, and an increase from the 8 units that sold in December 2013.  This is highest number of units sold for December in the last 4 years, double from the 2012, as well as the 2013 totals.

Of the 16 units that sold last month, 5 was a 1-bedroom home, 8 were 2-bedroom homes, and 3 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes.

As I had mentioned last month, if you are thinking of listing your UBC property, consider the increase in sales of units from December to January: January 2013 a total of 15 units were sold compared to 8 in December 2012; January 2014 a total of 18 units were sold compared to 8 in December 2013.

For a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.

For November 2014, a total of 14 units of strata homes, i.e. condos and townhomes, were sold in the UBC campus.  This is an increase from the 12 units that sold in October, and a decrease from the 15 units that sold in November 2013.  The highest number of units sold in November in the last 4 years was in 2011, when a total of 20 homes were sold.

Of the 14 units that sold last month, 1 was a 1-bedroom home, 10 were 2-bedroom homes, and 3 units were 3-or-more bedroom homes.

Looking ahead to the new year, if you are thinking of listing your UBC property, consider the increase in sales of units from December to January: January 2013 a total of 15 units were sold compared to 8 in December 2012; January 2014 a total of 18 units were sold compared to 8 in December 2013.

For a FREE private consultation, please call me, Len Diaz, at 604-551-1323.

Sold units does not include single detached homes, pre-sale, under construction, and private (FSBO) sales.  All figures are taken from MLS.