New Appliances Listings Across the Region

Ask What the New Appliances Actually Are

New Appliances on a Greater Vancouver listing can mean a full kitchen replaced last month or a single dishwasher swapped in before the photos were taken, so ask what was replaced and when before you write an offer.

Get the list in writing: make, model and install date for the range, the fridge, the dishwasher, the washer and the dryer. Photograph the labels during your showing. Appliances are chattels rather than fixtures, which means they leave with the previous owner unless the contract of purchase and sale names them, and a vague reference to appliances has caused more completion-day arguments in this region than almost anything else.

Check the Warranty, the Receipts and the Installation

Ask for the receipts and confirm whether the manufacturer warranty transfers to you. Most do, but some extended plans stay with the original purchaser and end at the sale. Have your inspector run every unit rather than look at it: a fridge that actually cools, a dishwasher through a full cycle, the range on each element.

Installation matters as much as the box. A gas range needs a supply line and a hood vented outside, an induction range needs its own circuit, and a slide-in unit needs the right cabinet opening. In a strata, read the bylaws before you plan a change, because venting through an exterior wall is an alteration the strata has to approve.

Confirm the New Appliances Stay with the Home

Write them into your offer by make and model, and add a clause requiring them to be in working order on completion. Then do your final walkthrough with that list in hand, checking the labels against what you photographed. Substitutions happen, and they are far easier to raise before the keys change hands.

Finally, weigh what the upgrade is worth to you. Recent appliances are genuinely useful, because you are not replacing a failing fridge in your first winter, but they rarely move a sale price the way a renovated kitchen does. Ask your real estate agent what comparable homes with and without them have sold for, and keep that difference in mind when you decide what to offer.