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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
u2 S* r T" |. T( w2 XPublished: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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Average house prices have hit half a million dollars in southwest Edmonton and almost $400,000 across the Capital region.; Z" D: U7 b* ~2 V% ]8 U/ Y/ X6 O
( W' F8 B- O* V- |8 W“It is clear that housing prices have not yet peaked,” Carolyn Pratt, president of th Edmonton Real Estate Board said Wednesday, releasing the March sales figures from the Mutiple Listing Service.
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Edmonton-area prices averaged $398,476 for single-family homes and $325,339 for all housing forms.
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In only the first three months of this year, average home prices have climbed 12.4 per cent, so Pratt has abandoned her earlier forecast of a 15 per cent increase for the full year.
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. ~) S/ Y1 v9 i3 T5 W" N“We’re predicting that prices will continue to rise until August, at four to five per cent per month, then at two per cent per month,” she said today.
; J( @8 u/ y* `* G- A$ W1 LAverage prices for single-family homes varied from $501,838 in Southwest Edmonton, and $484,168 in St. Albert, to $320,600 in Morinville, $312,730 in northeast Edmonton and $281,480 in central Edmonton. |
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