New Year, a similar mentality to start the year with a wait and see attitude in the market with both buyers and sellers. But the feeling is one of some growth of opportunity in the market with prices coming off lofty highs and some multiple offers occurring. Call it tempered optimism. There were 1,120 home sales in Greater Vancouver in January this year, the third-lowest total since 2000 (771 in 2009 and 1,062 in 2000). With only 1,094 home sales in December, it is curious that only twice since 2000 have sales in January been higher than the preceding December as January is typically a slow month to start the year. Sales in January were 35 percent below the 10-year average for January, not surprising after the year we had in 2018. With 4,980 new listings in January this year, it was 27 percent up from January 2018 and only up 3 percent from the 10-year average. Total sales for Greater Vancouver in January were 1,864 – up 6.5 percent from January 2017 and up 6.4 percent on the ten-year...