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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
5 x7 y# p) T9 y3 iPublished: Wednesday, April 04, 2007* j7 u1 x: k- W+ n
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Average house prices have hit half a million dollars in southwest Edmonton and almost $400,000 across the Capital region.. }$ b3 w5 P2 Z% P) {! C
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“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 $325,339 for all housing forms.
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! P/ u9 Q; @+ x% a6 z1 WIn only the first three months of this year, average home prices have climbed 12.4 per cent, so Pratt has abandoned her earlier forecast of a 15 per cent increase for the full year.
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- U- U$ e i& p6 ]( G- d( e/ J; R% {8 _“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.$ m; {& w9 Z+ w: z/ y* V! ]4 a
Average 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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