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How unaffordable is the Metro Vancouver housing market? A report from a real estate referral service has found the gap between housing costs and income is tens of thousands of dollars in most cities in the region.

The report from Zoocasa looked at the minimum income required to a buy a house in a neighbourhood compared with residents’ median income.

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It found that there isn’t a single market across Metro Vancouver where a household earning the median income can afford houses for sale. Eleven of the 21 markets studied had income gaps of more than $100,000.

In Port Moody, for example, which is the sixth least affordable market, the median income is around $93,000. That means those residents would be more than $118,000 short. In North Vancouver, the income gap is more than $160,000.

The least-affordable area for detached homes is Vancouver’s West Side, where in neighbourhoods such as Kitsilano or Point Grey residents would need an annual income of $450,000 to buy a house. The actual median income in that area is $65,000, for an income gap of $385,000.