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5月份 爱城房地产报告
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' W2 ~% R. |9 |3 o& S% \EDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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; @+ B$ j. H' w# _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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3 @2 Q1 y8 j6 R9 J3 _6 ^With more inventory, sales rose to 2,839 units in May from 2,441 in April.
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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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+ k- H( I7 f$ W& {2 o% h$ ?But the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.
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They 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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+ y. C7 p- n. e% }- ?2 K* X+ KComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,
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3 A3 L2 V+ }6 ^; rBoth REA and ComFree reported average listing periods of 22 days for homes that sold.
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But fears of higher interest rates have hurt confidence among Alberta business leaders and consumers -- especially about home buying -- in a new survey for PricewaterhouseCoopers, released Monday.
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" z* C5 p- B; u- m$ ], Z, @"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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