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  •  pbjamm   ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English
    20•11 months ago

    Asking prices will have to go down then. This is part of The Process. Some of those investors who bought high are going to lose their shirts which sucks for them. This is also part of The Process. I dont think prices are going to drop to 2012 levels or anything, but some correction is better than none.

    I say this all as someone who bought a house on the island over the summer. I am not going to lose my shirt on the deal as I am not selling.

  •  BlameThePeacock   ( @BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ) English
    8•11 months ago

    “at least 46 condos with this status have been listed” seems to be “Flooding the market”

    That’s stretching the definition quite hard…

    46 units is literally a drop in the 160,000+ unit bucket that is the Victoria real estate market. That’s 0.03% of the total units. A third of a tenth of a percent.

    This is exactly what I said would happen, people said “there’s so many it’s distorting the market” and I said that there’s not actually that many units and it won’t do a damn thing.