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Residential real estate in Vancouver has shown remarkable resilience in the current downturn. While the market has recorded a 5 percent decline in home values compared to the peak reached in 2008, home prices in Vancouver have risen, on average, 17 percent each year since 1980. This has made Vancouver's property market lucrative and attractive to property investors. The trend should persist as a slew of market indicators, economic fundamentals, and other factors suggest that demand for housing in Vancouver-and therefore the market prospects for strong investment performance-should remain strong... Various indicators paint a rosy picture of the property market activity in Vancouver. Housing sales in the January-August period are about 14 percent higher than in the same period last year. Yet, this compares to an expected decline in housing sales of nearly 15 pecent in the country as a whole. In fact, the home sales rebound in Canada, forecast for next year, will be driven primarily by a..