The most important moral here?  It's buried in the middle of the story. UBC Associate professor Prof. Yu said it best.  He "...was not surprised by the decrease [In BC], despite the attention that has been paid to new immigrants who arrive in B.C. with money.

"We tend to focus on the high-profile, like, 'Oh my gosh, there's all these rich Chinese,'" he said in an interview."

Wow: so they're going across the Rockies and settling in the prairies.  I could be wrong (occasionally that happens) but I don't recall seeing big headlines and opinion pieces reflecting FFB (that's "Fear of Foreign Buyers") and how the newcomers are skewing the markets in, say, Saskatoon, Regina, Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Brandon...