Resale activity in British Columbia is recorded by regional boards, among them Greater Vancouver REALTORS, the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, the Victoria Real Estate Board and the Association of Interior REALTORS, and each city report below uses its own board’s latest release. This page gives the province-wide price level for September 2026 and points to those reports. How benchmarks, averages and medians differ is covered on the Canadian housing market overview.
Province-wide prices, September 2026
- MLS® HPI composite benchmark, all of BC: $868,900 (-4.7% year over year)
- Average MLS® residential sale price: $924,279 (-2.4% year over year)
The benchmark is the better guide to the price of a typical home. The average is pulled up or down by where sales happen in a given month: a month with more Metro Vancouver detached sales lifts it, a month weighted to the Interior lowers it. Prices differ so much between regions that neither provincial figure says much about any one city.
BC city housing market reports
Greater Vancouver REALTORS area:
- Vancouver housing market: Metro Vancouver benchmarks by home type and the board’s sales and listings
- Burnaby housing market: Burnaby’s own figures within the Greater Vancouver board area
- Richmond housing market: prices and activity in Richmond
- Coquitlam housing market: the Tri-Cities market
Fraser Valley Real Estate Board area:
- Fraser Valley housing market: the board’s region as a whole
- Surrey housing market: Surrey’s figures from the Fraser Valley board
- Chilliwack housing market: the eastern Fraser Valley
Vancouver Island and the Interior:
- Victoria housing market: Victoria Real Estate Board averages, medians and Victoria Core benchmarks
- Kelowna housing market: Central Okanagan benchmarks from the Association of Interior REALTORS
- Kamloops housing market: Kamloops and District benchmarks, sales and listings
Buying a home in British Columbia
BC buyers pay property transfer tax on registration, with exemptions for qualifying first-time buyers and newly built homes; the calculator works out the amount. The BC first-time home buyer guide covers that exemption, the cooling-off period and the steps to closing.
Affordability
What a given income can buy is worked out by the BC mortgage affordability calculator, and the reverse, the income a price calls for under the mortgage stress test, by the income needed to afford a home calculator. Each city report applies the second to its own prices.
Related British Columbia pages
- BC rental market: rents and vacancy across the province
- Income percentiles in British Columbia
- Alberta housing market
- Mortgage rates
Sources
The figures and rules on this page come from these sources, last checked against them on October 25, 2026. How we check facts.