Market — Sunshine Coast detached

All figures detached houses only, from the Coastwatch archive · sold prices are final-list-price proxies calibrated by the measured list→sale ratio · updated 2026-08-03T08:51
406
active listings
535
sold, last 12 mo
107 priced so far
9.1
months of inventory
>6 = buyer's market
76
median days on market (actives)
88
median days to sell
from 175 sale pairs
97.6%
sale ÷ list price
measured, 175 pairs
8.8%
appreciation /yr since 2015
repeat-sales median

Seller motivation — my watchlist (80 listings)

38.8%
have cut price this listing
median total cut -3.8%
15.0%
are relists
listed before, failed to sell

Speed by community — months of inventory

actives ÷ monthly sales. Shorter bar = faster market. Balanced ≈ 4–6.
Sechelt
8.2 mo 135 act · 197 sold
Halfmoon Bay
8.4 mo 51 act · 73 sold
Gibsons
8.8 mo 42 act · 57 sold
Elphinstone
9.1 mo 37 act · 49 sold
West Howe Sound
9.7 mo 34 act · 42 sold
Pender Harbour / Egmont
10.8 mo 74 act · 82 sold
Roberts Creek
11.3 mo 33 act · 35 sold

Days on market — sitting vs selling

median DOM of current actives; days-to-sell where sale pairs exist.
Gibsons
62d sitting · sells in ~99d
Roberts Creek
66d sitting · sells in ~97d
Elphinstone
70d sitting · sells in ~119d
Sechelt
73d sitting · sells in ~84d
Pender Harbour / Egmont
76d sitting · sells in ~45d
Halfmoon Bay
86d sitting · sells in ~128d
West Howe Sound
91d sitting · sells in ~80d

What's moving — by price band

Sold-band assignment comes from the priced sample (107 of 535 enriched so far), scaled to estimated totals — the sample currently skews Sechelt, so treat band MOI as directional until the backfill finishes.
BandActiveSold 12mo (est)MOI (est)Median DOM
< $500k 13 11 (2 sampled) 14.2 82
$500–650k 18 63 (12 sampled) 3.4 56
$650–800k 69 153 (29 sampled) 5.4 61
$800k–1M 63 137 (26 sampled) 5.5 80
$1–1.5M 113 127 (24 sampled) 10.7 75
$1.5M+ 130 74 (14 sampled) 21.1 82

BRRRR margin — renovated vs dated $/sqft (solds)

The spread is the value-add you can renovate into. Needs ≥3 of each per community.
CommunityDated $/sqftRenovated $/sqftSpread
Sechelt458553 +95/sqft
e.g. a 2,000 sqft dated house carries roughly $190,000 of renovatable upside in Sechelt at current prices.

Ask vs sold $/sqft

Where asking $/sqft runs far above sold $/sqft, sellers are anchored high — negotiate.
CommunityAsk $/sqftSold $/sqftGap
Elphinstone568 513 +55
Gibsons590 485 +105
Halfmoon Bay675 570 +105
Pender Harbour / Egmont593 476 +117
Roberts Creek688 661 +27
Sechelt520 472 +48
West Howe Sound754 493 +261

Appreciation by era — repeat sales, coast-wide

Median annualized growth from 225 same-property sale pairs (registered prices).
1990–2000
13.5%/yr (n=33)
2000–2010
7.9%/yr (n=56)
2010–2015
3.2%/yr (n=33)
2015–2020
7.7%/yr (n=46)
2020–2023
9.5%/yr (n=41)

Appreciation by community — since 2015

Repeat-sales medians. Small n = wide error bars; treat gaps of <2%/yr as noise.
Gibsons
11.2%/yr (n=7)
Halfmoon Bay
10.7%/yr (n=5)
Pender Harbour / Egmont
9.4%/yr (n=6)
Elphinstone
9.2%/yr (n=7)
Sechelt
8.3%/yr (n=59)
West Howe Sound
6.0%/yr (n=3)
No forward projections here on purpose: ~45 sales/mo is too thin to fit a model that beats "recent trend continues." The measured history above is the honest signal.

Community detail

CommunityActiveMedian askDOM Sold 12moMOIDays to sell Sale/listCAGR '15+
Elphinstone 37$1,275,000 7049 9.1119 97.9% 9.2%
Gibsons 42$1,174,000 6257 8.899 97.3% 11.2%
Halfmoon Bay 51$1,298,000 8673 8.4128 96.2% 10.7%
Pender Harbour / Egmont 74$1,285,000 7682 10.845 96.7% 9.4%
Roberts Creek 33$1,360,000 6635 11.397 94.4% —
Sechelt 135$950,000 73197 8.284 97.7% 8.3%
West Howe Sound 34$1,349,500 9142 9.780 99.4% 6.0%