{"id":599,"date":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:00:00","slug":"lower-mainland-housing-market-gains-ground-as-b-c-exports-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/lower-mainland-housing-market-gains-ground-as-b-c-exports-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Mainland housing market gains ground as B.C. exports retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The Lower Mainland housing market showed slight improvement in August with 2,741 sales, a 3.6% year-over-year decline but a 6.6% seasonally adjusted increase. Average prices were stable at $1.129 million, down 2.3% from last year. The market remains a buyers&#039; market with high inventory and low demand due to fewer newcomers and economic uncertainties. B.C. exports fell 13.6% month-over-month in July, driven by declines in metal ores and forestry products, while imports rose 16%. Exports to the U.S. decreased, with China\u2019s share rising.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsnews.com\/economy-law-politics\/bryan-yu-lower-mainland-housing-market-gains-ground-as-bc-exports-retreat-12776639\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lower Mainland housing market showed slight improvement in August with 2,741 sales, a 3.6% year-over-year decline but a 6.6% seasonally adjusted increase. Average prices were stable at $1.129 million, down 2.3% from last year. The market remains a buyers&#039; market with high inventory and low demand due to fewer newcomers and economic uncertainties. B.C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lmrealestate.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}