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Real Estate Blog Posts

Early June 2026 Real Estate Stats!

Posted on Jun 09, 2026



Year to Date Recap and May 2026
Invermere and Area: Columbia Valley including Edgewater, Radium, Windermere, Fairmont, Canal Flats, and Panorama. 

Year to Date Snapshot

It was a slow start to 2026. Sales were down significantly in the first quarter, though April and May both came in roughly even with 2025:

  • May 2026: 59 sales vs. 60 in May 2025
  • Year to...

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Q1 2026 Real Estate Update — Invermere & Area

Posted on Apr 08, 2026


Q1 2026 Real Estate Update — Invermere & Area

Let’s talk about what actually happened in the first quarter of 2026 across the Invermere region (from Canal Flats to Spillimacheen, including Panorama).The headline: sales are down—but the story isn’t quite that simple.March saw 39 sales, compared to 48 last year (↓18.75%). Zooming out, year-to-date sal...

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March 2026: Real Estate Numbers are Misleading!

Posted on Mar 07, 2026


At first glance, the latest real estate numbers for the Invermere area look pretty grim.

In February 2026, there were 20 sales across the entire region (Canal Flats to Spillimacheen, including Panorama), compared with 33 sales in February 2025 — a 39% drop.

January and December showed a similar pattern. Over the past three months there were 51 total...

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Agency. Who is your Agent working for?

Posted on Feb 10, 2026


AGENCY & Representation:

  • "Agency" is a well-established concept in our lives, backed by common law. Sometimes it's described as the 'principal-agent' relationship.
  • An agency relationship exists when one party takes on a fiduciary responsibility for acting on behalf of another.
  • Fiduciary means that loyalty, care, good faith, and putting the principal's...

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Sales Plunge 41%: Market Hits a Standoff

Posted on Feb 08, 2026



Invermere & Area Real Estate: Sales Plunge 41% as Market Hits a Standoff

For January 2026, we saw only 20 sales (valley wide) compared to 34 in 2025.

New listings are also down 39.74% (47 this year compared to 78 in 2025).

These numbers confirm what I am feeling on the ground, and they are related. The lack of exciting new listings (many of the 'new...

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January 2026 Real Estate Scan! And 'new' BC ASSESSMENT numbers!

Posted on Jan 06, 2026





December 2025 was a disaster from a sales perspective — only 11 sales for the entire month through the entire Columbia Valley. However, year-to-date totals tell a different story: 521 sales, which is up 6.98% from the 487 total sales in 2024.

To put this December's poor performance in perspective, December 2021 was 34 sales, 2022 was 18 sales and la...

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