"A total of 735 properties sold in the Victoria Real Estate Board region this October, a single property more than the 734 properties sold in October last year."   VREB

That means the foreign buyers snapped up 44 properties.  Could there be a reason the article doesn't mention hard numbers?  Maybe more attention-grabbing to say "Rate of foreign buyers doubles!"  Yup, up from 22 to 44.  Big deal.