爱城MLS库存量已达11000套

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MLS inventory hits 11,000
Record number of homes for sale 21/2 times greater than last June's lineup
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Bill Mah, The Edmonton Journal
Published: 1:33 am
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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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1 j9 ~) \$ I$ W8 @4 g9 AGood news, if you're a buyer. For sellers, it means waiting an average of 53 days for a sale -- up one day from April.

- x" {; e8 J: m( Y6 S1 T4 g+ L. a"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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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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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.

Despite plummeting demand, prices have remained relatively stable.
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5 m" z. Y5 Z+ a; D8 WPerras forecasts home prices will rise by an average of four per cent by year's end.

& v1 c# i1 N/ O, Q4 {* uIn 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.

The 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.
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The average selling price for condos was $260,837 in May, down nearly two per cent from the same month last year.

8 {; X) w, o& p6 A' o+ \& KPaul 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.

* L6 F& m8 P) ^& B/ g"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.

! ^* k8 z0 j, F6 {) _"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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[ 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

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' [$ p1 H  Y5 O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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' Q  M* o. m; J; V5 j% I哪位高人给解释解释阿?

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catty

as one leader of Realtor Association said last year house owners list their house in summer for fun.
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eagle2008

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