Greater Vancouver & Fraser Valley
Strategic advice for every move you make.
Whether you’re buying, selling, investing or selling a business, you get a plan built on the data and around your life.
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Mervin Truong
RE/MAX Canada Executive Club
Mervin Truong
Oakwyn Realty Sales Achievement, prior brokerage
Mervin Truong
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On the ground
See where the work happens.
Twenty seconds from the places I work every week: Surrey towers, Tri-Cities forest, the White Rock waterfront and the homes I walk clients through.
An advisor, not a salesperson
Most decisions in real estate are made long before an offer is written.
I came to real estate from engineering consulting, where you understood the problem before you recommended anything. I still work that way. We start with your situation, then the data behind it: what comparable homes sold for, how fast, and how buyers in your neighbourhood are behaving right now.
Sometimes the answer is to list this spring. Sometimes it’s to wait a year, or to rethink a presale you already hold. Either way you’ll know why.
Sellers
Pricing strategy, preparation and a marketing system built for your home
Move-up and luxury buyers
Selling and buying at the same time without being forced into a weak position
First-time buyers
Financing, subjects and strata explained before you write an offer
Investors
Long-term ownership, analysed on the numbers
Presales and assignments
Deposit structures, completion risk and assignment mechanics
Commercial and business sales
Confidential process with qualified buyers under NDA
Developers and land
Site assembly, zoning context and exit planning
How I work
The same three steps, every time.
A first condo and a commercial sale get the same process: understand, analyse, execute.
Understand
We talk about your goals, your constraints and your timing. Where you are in life matters more than where the market is this month.
- Your objectives and non-negotiables
- Financing position and timing
- What a good outcome looks like
Analyse
I pull comparable sales, inventory and buyer behaviour for your neighbourhood and show you the workings, the way a research report would.
- Comparable-sales analysis
- Pricing and timing scenarios
- Risks named plainly
Execute
You get a plan you understand, and I run it: preparation, marketing, negotiation and a clean completion. Then we stay in touch.
- Luxury-grade presentation
- Disciplined negotiation
- Annual Home Investment Check-In
Market pulse · October 2026
The market, in three numbers.
Across the cities I serve, by home type. Each area's detail is one click away.
8 of 31
markets favoured buyers
20 balanced, 3 favoured sellers, by city and home type.
97%
typical sale-to-list
Homes sold about 3% under their final asking price.
21 days
typical days on market
Median across the same markets, from listing to sale.
Source: SnapStats® (snap-stats.com), compiled from Fraser Valley Real Estate Board and Greater Vancouver REALTORS® MLS® data captured November 1, 2026. Figures cover October 2026 versus the previous month. Accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed by the source; not intended to solicit properties already listed for sale.
Where I work
Eleven cities, one connected market.
Buyers move between these communities all the time, from downtown Vancouver out to Langley and White Rock. Knowing how each one prices and trades against the others is where advice gets specific.
Municipal boundaries from the Province of British Columbia. Highlighted: the eleven cities Merv serves across the Greater Vancouver REALTORS® and Fraser Valley Real Estate Board territories.
Listings
Presentation that matches the home.
Every home I list gets its own property page: full-screen photography, floor plans you can read, a walkthrough video and real walking times to schools and transit.
Photography
Architectural, dusk and detail sets with written descriptions for every image.
Floor plans and video
Legible plans beside the walkthrough and 3D tour, not buried in a gallery.
Neighbourhood data
School catchments, parks and transit with real walking times from open data.
Insights
Market intelligence, written to be useful.
A weekly market note, bi-weekly education and a monthly report, each dated and sourced. No hype, no urgency, just what the numbers say and what to do about it.
Perspective2 min read
Your advisor for life: what that means after the sale closes
Most of a homeowner's important decisions come after the purchase: when to renovate, refinance, rent out or sell. That is why I think the relationship should not end at completion.
Market Updates2 min read
October 2026 market note: more sales, but the Fraser Valley is still a buyers' market
Fraser Valley sales rose 14% from September, yet inventory stays high and the market remains in buyers' territory. What October's numbers mean if you are buying or selling this fall.
Seller Strategy2 min read
Pricing your home where your expectations and the market meet
There is usually a gap between what a seller hopes for and what buyers will pay. Pricing well means closing that gap before you list, not two price reductions later.
Start a conversation
Thirty minutes, and you leave with a next step.
A consultation is a working session: where you are, what you're weighing and what the data says. You leave with a plan whether or not we end up working together.
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