{"id":593274,"date":"2026-04-09T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:00:16","slug":"greater-vancouver-commercial-real-estate-transactions-down-8-3-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593274\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Vancouver commercial real estate transactions down 8.3% in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 Greater Vancouver Realtors say 2025 was the slowest year since 2009 for commercial transactions in the region, with a fall of 8.3 per cent overall when compared with 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The association says the total dollar volume of commercial transactions in the Lower Mainland last year was $7.466 billion, a 23.2 per cent decrease from $9.723 billion in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A news release says there were 212 commercial land sales in 2025, which was a nearly 50 per cent decrease from the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The bright spot last year was in office sales, which the group says were up by nearly 60 per cent with 367 sales in 2025 compared with 232 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a 10.7 per cent increase in commercial \u201cretail and other\u201d sales, but a 15.7 per cent decrease in industrial sales and a nearly 30 per cent drop in multi-family sales in 2025 from the year before. <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Lis, the association\u2019s chief economist, says the decline in overall transaction volumes is \u201crelatively modest\u201d when \u201cconsidering that numerous uncertainty-inducing events transpired globally\u201d in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Greater Vancouver Realtors say 2025 was the slowest year since 2009 for commercial transactions in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-593274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}