Court-Ordered Sales · Metro Vancouver
Every week I review the active court-ordered listings across Metro Vancouver and send subscribers the ones worth a closer look. Past editions are published here about a week later, with addresses and listing links held back — subscribers get those the day each list goes out.
August 28, 2026 · 7 picks
The board came back to Vancouver: four picks in the city proper for the first time in a month, led by two Coal Harbour price reductions, one in an Arthur Erickson building, plus a $499K West End one-bedroom and a First Shaughnessy estate.
August 21, 2026 · 7 picks
Questions went to the listing agent on every file this edition, and every agent answered: a corrected bedroom count and new floor plan, a Phase 1 environmental assessment in hand on a Guildford parcel, and a room-by-room account of how unfinished an unfinished build really is.
August 14, 2026 · 7 picks
A development-heavy week from Surrey to Abbotsford: four of seven sold mainly for land or redevelopment value, from a $746K Langley building lot to a $4M proposed townhome site, with the two homes you could actually live in put first.
August 7, 2026 · 9 picks
Nine listings and a better mix than the week before, led by a Ladner house already carrying an accepted offer and a scheduled hearing, plus a $2.9M Caulfeild house and five Abbotsford building lots listed at once.
July 31, 2026 · 7 picks
No new court-ordered listings came on the board, so this edition went back through what is still active, led by reductions in New Westminster and the West End.
July 25, 2026 · Special alert
An order absolute made this one a rarity: foreclosure pricing without the courtroom risk. Plus what I noticed actually walking the unit.
July 24, 2026 · 6 picks
Richmond, Vancouver, Delta, North Vancouver and Burnaby — including one with a court hearing days away, still open to competing offers.
July 17, 2026 · 6 picks
Move-in-ready new builds at court-ordered pricing in Surrey City Centre — warranty included, GST not — up to development land at the other extreme.
July 10, 2026 · 8 picks
From a $419K transit-side condo in New West to a North Surrey subdivision site with third reading already behind it.
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