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5月份 爱城房地产报告
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5 x0 H+ k5 `" }: j$ g) p$ Q0 }9 CEDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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That's more than the entire year of 2005 and up 37.4 per cent over the first five months of 2006.
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Sales through the multiple-listing service had been constrained by a tight supply. But realtors listed 4,850 homes in May compared to 3,151 in April.
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1 W7 y7 F/ [: e _( J! w6 B) YWith more inventory, sales rose to 2,839 units in May from 2,441 in April.
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Buyers enjoyed more choice, said Carolyn Pratt, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton, in a news release issued Monday.) v1 S N2 j) @8 d2 ] ^" P/ W4 u
5 p$ i2 T: l! X5 }1 I' mBut the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.
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; F' c. y7 u! e: H! a& ~8 pThey climbed three per cent from April to an average of $354,410 for all forms of housing. Single-family houses averaged $426,028 while condos averaged $266,100.
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ComFree, which sells services to support sales by owner, reported 1,212 new listings in May.
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ComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,! |# z$ c8 N5 e! l) _' t4 ^
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Both REA and ComFree reported average listing periods of 22 days for homes that sold.
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But fears of higher interest rates have hurt confidence among Alberta business leaders and consumers -- especially about home buying -- in a new survey for PricewaterhouseCoopers, released Monday.# L S3 ~" t+ n" [8 `% j5 E9 K! |
2 \" U# q: v4 s/ x- C9 W"The majority of indices stayed relatively stable, but people are less optimistic than in February," said Marc Tremblay, vice-president of Leger Marketing in Calgary. |
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