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5月份 爱城房地产报告" p, z6 ^% p7 W5 u2 d1 Z
% I7 ?9 J* s4 f* ^EDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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That's more than the entire year of 2005 and up 37.4 per cent over the first five months of 2006.
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Sales through the multiple-listing service had been constrained by a tight supply. But realtors listed 4,850 homes in May compared to 3,151 in April.
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Q& f* S% o4 B2 T$ R3 QWith more inventory, sales rose to 2,839 units in May from 2,441 in April.; m5 _& L) y. \1 \1 k% W
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Buyers enjoyed more choice, said Carolyn Pratt, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton, in a news release issued Monday.
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But the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.
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/ G% L" c7 O* D" G TThey climbed three per cent from April to an average of $354,410 for all forms of housing. Single-family houses averaged $426,028 while condos averaged $266,100.
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ComFree, which sells services to support sales by owner, reported 1,212 new listings in May.
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8 G6 S( a3 W5 b. `8 x* MComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,$ ^3 v8 n( k e! L
9 D6 \1 R6 a# E$ x8 \Both REA and ComFree reported average listing periods of 22 days for homes that sold.9 t+ C: m. U- F) N' Z, N% d) i
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But fears of higher interest rates have hurt confidence among Alberta business leaders and consumers -- especially about home buying -- in a new survey for PricewaterhouseCoopers, released Monday.
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"The majority of indices stayed relatively stable, but people are less optimistic than in February," said Marc Tremblay, vice-president of Leger Marketing in Calgary. |
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