Housing prices have been going up for years in major B.C. cities, but a new report from the National Bank of Canada found it could take hundreds of months to save up for a home in some communities.
In Vancouver, prospective homebuyers would need to earn $230,488 as a household each year in order to afford the cost of a 鈥渞epresentative home鈥� in the city. That house, valued at $1,342,184, would still require 409 months of saving up to afford the downpayment. That鈥檚 34 years, assuming this household saved 10 per cent of its income.
For a condo in Vancouver, the numbers were a little better. It would take a household making $127,663 a total of 58 months 鈥� nearly five years 鈥� to save up for a $633,030 condo.
If 34 years is a little longer than you want to wait to buy a house, you can try Victoria. There, a household making $181,275 would have to save 10 per cent of their income fo 109 months to afford a representative house worth $910,536. That鈥檚 just over nine years, compared to 34 for a Vancouver house.
For a condo in Victoria, prospective homebuyers making $102,556 as a household would need to save up for 42 months to afford a $503,072 condo.
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