{"id":1883,"date":"2026-04-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:00:00","slug":"vancouver-down-payment-takes-83-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/vancouver-down-payment-takes-83-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Down Payment Takes 83 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/saeed-farahani-prec\/vancouver-homebuyers-downpayment\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Vancouver avg. detached home ~$1.8M, requiring 20% minimum down payment.<br \/>\nThat minimum down payment totals ~$367K, based on the avg. price.<br \/>\nThe analysis says affordability gaps between major Canadian cities have widened.<br \/>\nCMHC survey: 41% used gifts or inheritance for down payments.<br \/>\nSuggested options: First Home Savings Account, remote-friendly cheaper markets, or rent-vesting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver avg. detached home ~$1.8M, requiring 20% minimum down payment. That minimum down payment totals ~$367K, based on the avg. price. The analysis says affordability gaps between major Canadian cities have widened. CMHC survey: 41% used gifts or inheritance for down payments. Suggested options: First Home Savings Account, remote-friendly cheaper markets, or rent-vesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfarahani.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}