Ryan Cook Real Estate RE/MAX Camosun Victoria

02/27/2026

🔹Sooke’s January real-estate market showed stable year-over-year prices but a drop in sales🔹

Residential real-estate valuations across the Sooke Region were mixed this January compared to last year, with a combined 18 sales of single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums throughout the month, according to Victoria Real Estate Board data for transactions via the Multiple Listings Service.

The 18 total sales, however, represented a marked drop from January of 2025’s 32 cross-market deals (not including land, mobile homes or commercial properties), when the average across 28 single-family-home sales was $1,029,375 with a median of $927,450, and selling at an average 74 days on market. This January, 10 houses sold, averaging $1,011,175 with a median of $970,000, after 81 days on market on average.

Sooke’s condominium segment is quite small with only a handful of properties across the area, and few units trading on an annual basis, let alone month-to-month. This January, one unit sold for $360,000, a one-bed, one-bath suite in a building dating to 1978. It spent only 12 days on market. Last year, two units sold in January, both two-bed, two-bath layouts, for an average of $813,500. One property sold in five days, the other in 42.

Townhomes drew seven buyers this January, who paid an average of $653,500 and a surprisingly higher median of $697,900. The units averaged 98 days on market. Last year, two townhomes sold in January for an average of $704,500 after spending 71 and 149 days on market. More with at Citified.ca

01/07/2026

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“Across Canada, the real-estate market was substantially softer than in year’s prior, but in Victoria, on the whole, the region bucked that trend,” Cook said. “One segment stood out among the rest, and that’s the single-family-home sector of our real-estate market, which not only had its second-highest grossing year of nearly $4.6 billion in sales, but values actually rose by an average of more than $35,000 per sale, and transaction volume was up by 123 units. That’s impressive in light of the broader market conditions, and certainly not a metric shared across much of the country.”

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09/22/2025

🎉 SOLD! 🎉 Congratulations to my clients on the purchase of their new home! 🏠 🥳
It was an absolute pleasure helping them buy their first home in beautiful Oak Bay! I wish them the best moving forward on their next adventures and in this charming heritage home. 🏡✨

2087 Byron Street - Oak Bay, BC
Offered at: $1,074,000
Sold: $1,005,000

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09/18/2025

Cook believes that Wednesday’s 0.25% Bank of Canada Rate drop to 2.5% and murmurings of yet another interest rate adjustment later in the fall (or even multiple downward adjustments) is motivating more buyers to commit to a property search, and at the same time, is giving would-be home sellers an incentive to list into what may be a busier fall season than typically seen in the Capital. 🏠

Falling interest rates could lead to a banner year-end for Greater Victoria real-estate already seeing near-record-high prices.

08/06/2025

🏠 Victoria’s housing market in July posted the strongest condominium and townhome activity for the month in years, according to the latest data from the Victoria Real Estate Board.
“There is so much built-up opportunity for buyers non-single-family sectors this summer, and the market appears to have finally noticed,” says Victoria real-estate agent Ryan Cook with Victoria-based brokerage Remax Camosun, who spoke with Citified in the spring on the mounting volume of condominium listings in Victoria’s core that have fuelled a niche buyer’s market within a seller’s market.

680 properties changed hands in July, with buyers turning to condos and townhomes amid Victoria's high SFD prices.

07/27/2025

⭐ SOLD! ⭐ Congratulations to my clients on the sale of their home in beautiful James Bay! 🏠 🥳
It was a pleasure to market and sell this beautifully well cared for home. Wishing my clients well on their next journey in life. 🏡✨
586 Marifield Avenue - James Bay - Victoria, BC

Offered at: $1,780,000

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06/25/2025

⭐ SOLD! ⭐ Congratulations to my clients on the purchase of their new home! 🏠 🥳
It was an absolute pleasure working with them to find a new home for their growing family.
I wish them the best moving forward and on their next adventures.
556 Bunker Road - Colwood, BC
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06/19/2025

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06/10/2025

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06/04/2025

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758 properties sold in May via the Multiple Listings Service, just five sales below May of 2024’s activity. April’s activity totalled 642 sales, with 612 in March.

Single-family homes accounted for 401 transactions, two above last May’s 399. Average prices reached $1,304,200 with a median of $1,199,000, a drop of 1.4% and a jump of 1.8%, respectively. In April, single-family prices surged to a $1.39 million average with an identical median to that of May’s, suggesting multiple high-value properties changed hands in April.

The townhome segment had its strongest showing in terms of average and median prices since the start of 2025, averaging $841,587 per purchases and the first median to crack $800,000 all year, at $807,750. Last May saw an average of $836,439 and a $789,547 median. Sales reached 90 units, the second highest total since June of 2023 when 90 sales were also recorded.

Victoria-based real-estate agent Ryan Cook, with brokerage Remax Camosun, says demand for houses and townhomes continues to drive Victoria’s housing market at a time when condominiums are still struggling to find their groove.

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06/03/2025

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Victoria-based real-estate agent Ryan Cook with brokerage Remax Camosun, says demand for houses and townhomes continues to drive Victoria’s housing market at a time when condominiums are still struggling to find their groove.

“Detached homes remain highly sought after on the south Island, and buyers are pulling out all the stops to try to make a single-family-home purchase work,” Cook says. “Otherwise, townhomes are an immediate second choice particularly if location is more important to a buyer than price point alone.”

Down but not out, condominiums still fared relatively well throughout the Capital with 221 sales, according to the VREB. This data does not include non-MLS sales such as pre-sales or units sold off-MLS. Last May, 235 condominiums sold. May’s average was $603,493, a touch below last year’s $613,936. The median also slipped to $535,000 this year compared to $547,450 a year ago.

Houses remain the top choice on the south Island as buyers focus on detached listings in easy-does-it market.

05/09/2025

It's a Buyers Market in Downtown Victoria with plenty of opportunities for first time buyers to get into the market. 🏠🏡🏘

Thank you again to Citified Victoria for collaborating on this article.

Slow sales and dampened price expectations are leading to opportunities, especially for 1st time buyers, agent says.