March 2, 2015, Victoria BC – The Victoria Real Estate Board today released its report on real
estate activity in the Victoria area for February 2015.

542 properties sold in the Victoria region this February, a 31.6% increase compared to the 412
properties sold in the same month last year and a 54.4% increase compared to the 351
properties sold last month in January.

“The trees bloomed early in Victoria, and so did local real estate. February was a busy month
with numbers closer to what we would expect to see in the spring season.” Victoria Real Estate
Board President Guy Crozier says. “285 single family homes sold over the course of the month.
We’ve not seen that many single family homes sell in a February since 2008 when we tracked
295 transactions. Though buyers are already in spring purchase mode, the amount of available
inventory may not be quite up to the pace. We continue to track the trend of higher year-overyear
sales, and lower year-over-year active listings that we started to see in mid-2013.”

There were 3,480 active listings for sale on the Multiple Listing Service® at the end of February,
7.7% fewer than the 3,770 active listings in February 2014.

The Multiple Listing Service® Home Price Index benchmark value for a single family home in
the Victoria Core this time last year was $549,700. The benchmark value for the same home
this month has increased by 1.33% to $557,000.