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5月份 爱城房地产报告
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6 y2 y- b4 Q" A( a; s* J. wEDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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That's more than the entire year of 2005 and up 37.4 per cent over the first five months of 2006.. \6 T9 [& y2 f& I
5 b; D) m8 ^7 d }0 |. VSales through the multiple-listing service had been constrained by a tight supply. But realtors listed 4,850 homes in May compared to 3,151 in April.$ T" X6 P2 l0 `, L r0 U) J
$ K' f( T) }) o, R1 S5 R8 s1 @ D* cWith 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.4 ^6 L6 I, B: p/ E! k Y9 T1 e
7 B( x9 \( p: U9 `0 ]) b5 GBut the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.
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$ n/ l) t- B+ W+ H$ B6 ^$ T* `' SThey 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 $266,100.$ Q- Y, E, [/ ?& R" j8 J
' j8 j8 z4 `& l9 _5 UComFree, which sells services to support sales by owner, reported 1,212 new listings in May.; {0 E# f( ^; n
; {) x! ~& u- F ]. N9 @$ S0 WComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,
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* C' {! f1 V- I) D8 a3 P/ hBoth 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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"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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