Powell River Sunshine Coast Real Estate Board

The number of homes sold through the MLS® System of the Powell River Sunshine Coast Real Estate Board totaled 15 units in January 2026. This was a substantial decline of 42.3% (11 sales) from January 2025.

Home sales were 18.5% below the five-year average and 22.7% below the 10-year average for the month of January.

“Looking through the seasonality, home sales and new listings took a step down in January after recording gains through most of 2025,” said Curtis Yungen, President of the Powell River Sunshine Coast Real Estate Board. “This may just be a temporary blip, as momentum appeared to be trending consistently stronger last year, so we’ll see what happens over the next few months as we get closer to the spring. In the meantime, our overall inventory levels continue to decline from previously elevated levels and the market is firmly in balanced territory, so conditions are stable for the time being.”

The average price of homes sold in January 2026 was $592,493, decreasing by 7.2% from January 2025.

The dollar value of all home sales in January 2026 was $8.9 million, down sharply by 46.5% from the same month in 2025.

The number of new listings saw a substantial decrease of 28.1% from January 2025. There were 41 new residential listings in January 2026.

New listings were 1.5% above the five-year average and 10.5% above the 10-year average for the month of January.

Active residential listings numbered 170 units on the market at the end of January, a moderate decrease of 8.1% (15 listings) from the end of January 2025.

Active listings were 17.7% above the five-year average and 38.5% above the 10-year average for the month of January.

Months of inventory numbered 11.3 at the end of January 2026, up from the 7.1 months recorded at the end of January 2025 and above the long-run average of 7 months for this time of year. The number of months of inventory is the number of months it would take to sell current inventories at the current rate of sales activity.