House-scale rooms, a real yard, one shared wall: the middle path more buyers should know about.
Duplexes are the peninsula's quiet compromise: more space than a townhome, less upkeep and outlay than a detached, and often a location the same money could not buy otherwise. Newer half-duplexes especially live like full houses.
The details to check are the shared ones: strata or bare-land arrangements, party-wall agreements, insurance. We review them on every duplex we touch. The current duplex listings are below, live from the MLS.
The board’s September read on White Rock and South Surrey houses: the detached benchmark is $1,612,500, down 2.2 percent on the month. 60 houses sold in September (48 the month before) with 600 active at month end, a sales-to-active-listings ratio of 10.0 percent; under 12 percent is conventionally called a buyers’ market, 12 to 20 balanced, over 20 a sellers’ market. 175 new listings came on and the median sale was $1,628,000.
The rest of the peninsula: the townhome benchmark is $797,100, down 2.8 percent on the month, with a sales-to-active-listings ratio of 16.6 percent for townhomes; the condo benchmark $544,400, down 1.2 percent, with 13.9 percent for condos. Valley-wide it took an average 45 days to sell a house, 38 a townhome and 46 a condo; the board publishes no peninsula-only days figure. A benchmark is the board’s index price for a typical home of that type, not an average asking price. Source: Fraser Valley Real Estate Board MLS®, October 2026 report.
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