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发表于 2008-6-4 07:10 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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MLS inventory hits 11,0001 Q. l; @8 t6 S" Q* t& u' h3 g
Record number of homes for sale 21/2 times greater than last June's lineup, O# k' v1 R2 p  u) [3 m( L

1 X9 S8 s0 e* y; x( H( PBill Mah, The Edmonton Journal* S  y1 d$ p+ @& e& M: l4 b0 y8 H
Published: 1:33 am( v3 E3 {1 B# H3 ~( x* ]2 u% I
EDMONTON - A record glut of Edmonton-area homes for sale shows no signs of shrinking soon.& E% U8 {; i7 E/ H6 Z& Z4 n
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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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That'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.
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$ m! T7 s8 H* P! p# ZGood news, if you're a buyer. For sellers, it means waiting an average of 53 days for a sale -- up one day from April.
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7 C0 Q5 j& e. L"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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( _  F( I0 q4 m+ |Perras 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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8 O( O6 l. ^' `& D: o- ], eIn 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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Despite plummeting demand, prices have remained relatively stable.6 \. D+ W( G( E: m" m" _  q

0 D- M/ j0 p) _6 ?2 B2 X/ ^. JPerras forecasts home prices will rise by an average of four per cent by year's end.
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8 ]- A' F1 X0 S# @- G" MIn 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.* x% H6 k1 d( p1 c& H& G/ r( H

0 {8 _/ f- w) K* H" mThe May average selling price for a single-family dwelling was $383,167 -- down about 10 per cent from May last year.
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The median -- middle figure in a list of all sale prices -- selling price for a single-family home in May was $365,000, down 8.75 per cent year-over-year.% h: E! Q: v$ m4 S0 x# M

5 l! V2 n2 R2 c( {- J, H) oThe average selling price for condos was $260,837 in May, down nearly two per cent from the same month last year.
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0 r1 [5 F+ L5 ?, VPaul Messinger, a University of Alberta marketing professor, said the Edmonton real estate market appears to be following an economic model that says in times of high demand, prices get bid up rapidly.
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! b6 ]% |$ q$ ~Prices are slower to drop when demand falls." g7 [  d; Z" o9 R# t
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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.4 e& o: |4 |7 h# V# N- @# T, C5 i
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"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.": P  q- H! `1 t1 R7 {8 ^  x0 S3 T

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发表于 2008-6-4 16:16 | 显示全部楼层
good....let's wait
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发表于 2008-6-4 17:49 | 显示全部楼层
let's wait  until the market crashes to the bottom.
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as one leader of Realtor Association said last year house owners list their house in summer for fun.* m& k/ _1 P0 [1 T. w& T7 H
and house price will go up absolutely.
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