{"id":6,"date":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/vankubo-com\/2026\/09\/02\/vancouver-affordability-improves-again\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","slug":"vancouver-affordability-improves-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/02\/vancouver-affordability-improves-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Affordability Improves Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/max-astrero\/falling-home-prices-remotion-videos-4f6e\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In Late-Q2 2026, Vancouver saw the largest affordability gain among covered markets, as sizeable home-price declines made payments more manageable despite firmer mortgage rates.<br \/>\nVancouver\u2019s mortgage-payment-to-income ratio \u21932.6 points during the quarter after the representative home price \u21932.9%, marking a clear affordability boost tied to pricing.<br \/>\nEven after that improvement, Vancouver remained Canada\u2019s least affordable market, with the mortgage payment on a representative home consuming 79.4% of median income.<br \/>\nAn economist said Vancouver highlighted a market shift: affordability gains were now coming from falling prices, while mortgage rates were no longer driving relief.<br \/>\nVancouver was one of six markets that improved during the quarter, underscoring how price moderation, not cheaper borrowing, had become the key affordability lever.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Late-Q2 2026, Vancouver saw the largest affordability gain among covered markets, as sizeable home-price declines made payments more manageable despite firmer mortgage rates. Vancouver\u2019s mortgage-payment-to-income ratio \u21932.6 points during the quarter after the representative home price \u21932.9%, marking a clear affordability boost tied to pricing. Even after that improvement, Vancouver remained Canada\u2019s least affordable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vankubo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}