Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / PML / A house for sale by Chilliwack realtor Kristina Legault. The Chilliwack real estate board says the benchmark price of a single-family home has fallen 13% in one year to $845,200 compared to November 2021.
Chilliwack real estate

Chilliwack-area single-family home prices drop 13% to below $850,000

Dec 10, 2022 | 10:52 AM

CHILLIWACK — If there’s a silver lining possibly associated with the seventh rate hike implemented by the Bank of Canada this year, the benchmark price of a single-family home in the Chilliwack area has fallen over 10 per cent from a year ago to below $850,000.

Emblematic of a subdued real estate market in which housing prices seem to have stabilized, the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB) revealed in a news release on Thursday (Dec. 8) that the benchmark price of a single-family home in the Chilliwack area has fallen 13 per cent to $845,200 in November 2022.

It’s a substantial decline from the prices just a year ago in November 2021.

CADREB said the benchmark price price for attached townhouses and row units was $580,100 in November 2022, a drop of 5.3 per cent from a year ago.

Meanwhile, the benchmark price for an apartment was a relative bargain at $390,900, an increase of four per cent from a year ago.

There were only 70 single-family homes sold in November, a drop of 51.7 per cent from November 2021.

“Sales activity remains well below average levels for this time of year and year-over-year declines will appear even more outsized than normal due to last year’s incredible strength around the same time,” said Daryl Moniz, president of CADREB and a realtor himself. “Overall supply levels have climbed strongly since the beginning of the year and now sit on par with the recent peak back from mid-2019, providing ample opportunity for sidelined buyers to rejoin the market. On the price side, MLS HPI composite benchmark prices have slowed their decline and now appear to be stabilizing as we head into the last month of the year.”