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MLS inventory hits 11,000
Record number of homes for sale 21/2 times greater than last June's lineup

Bill Mah, The Edmonton Journal
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EDMONTON - A record glut of Edmonton-area homes for sale shows no signs of shrinking soon.
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At the end of May, 11,006 residential properties sat unsold on the Edmonton Multiple Listing Service, according to monthly statistics released Tuesday by the Realtors Association of Edmonton.
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0 b! ?- W4 |, t- n; P) ]( B7 x: AThat's up 400 homes from a month ago, and 21/2 times the inventory of the same time last year. At the current pace of home sales, that amounts to a six-month supply, twice the normal inventory.

Good news, if you're a buyer. For sellers, it means waiting an average of 53 days for a sale -- up one day from April.

. Z1 z8 Y, k& U- `5 l1 s"It's a great time right now to be purchasing, because the selection has never been better and the interest rates are low," association president Marc Perras said.
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) o; L# |0 }5 qPerras predicted the surplus will shrink to about 8,000 by the fall as homes sell or multiple homeowners rent out extra homes instead of trying to sell them.
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In May, 4,294 homes were added to the listings inventory and 1,821 homes sold. May sales were higher than same-month sales in 2003 and 2004, but fell short of May sales for 2005 to 2007, during a real estate boom.
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8 I" W$ M  O, w- y/ PDespite plummeting demand, prices have remained relatively stable.

9 p& m, _$ u$ n& H4 \3 D6 KPerras forecasts home prices will rise by an average of four per cent by year's end.

3 ^6 D9 w( ^' F; x$ q  cIn May, the average (mean) price for all types of homes rose one per cent from April to $340,499. That price is down about four per cent from a year ago.

% I% e+ Y0 h$ ?# ~0 s' ^7 Y# hThe May average selling price for a single-family dwelling was $383,167 -- down about 10 per cent from May last year.

The median -- middle figure in a list of all sale prices -- selling price for a single-family home in May was $365,000, down 8.75 per cent year-over-year.
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8 x( ?: J1 s+ w* L$ n$ U& ?0 PThe average selling price for condos was $260,837 in May, down nearly two per cent from the same month last year.

Paul Messinger, a University of Alberta marketing professor, said the Edmonton real estate market appears to be following an economic model that says in times of high demand, prices get bid up rapidly.
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Prices are slower to drop when demand falls.
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"Now, when we are back closer to historical patterns, we see an adjustment where the slack is taken up not by price but by the inventory," Messinger said.

3 ~% o; l8 y. t# J"For years, Edmonton was one of the best real estate values in the country. Now we are much more in line with the rest of Canada in terms of price."

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0 S5 }+ c- p/ l! H, O/ K, ?[ 本帖最后由 circle 于 2008-6-4 08:17 编辑 ]

roof

good....let's wait

kai517

let's wait  until the market crashes to the bottom.

flagship

8 L7 _& v) a2 c5 r: A哪位高人给解释解释阿?

潇洒哥

原帖由 flagship 于 2008-6-5 08:59 发表
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7 K% f4 g9 B- `' Q哪位高人给解释解释阿?

catty

as one leader of Realtor Association said last year house owners list their house in summer for fun.
' h. M3 @/ q6 V5 Iand house price will go up absolutely.

eagle2008

路过，关注一下