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5月份 爱城房地产报告! l& t/ a/ e/ w' E. \- z
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EDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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$ }. H; Z Z; V$ lThat'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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. O: T1 Q; t5 X# S$ I2 uSales 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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( E& S1 E( |# L- n2 F9 O: q9 q+ I" ]With more inventory, sales rose to 2,839 units in May from 2,441 in April.. `2 N! K% u1 n
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Buyers enjoyed more choice, said Carolyn Pratt, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton, in a news release issued Monday.2 F0 @" x" z; N, z
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But the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.
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They 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 $266,100.' L. t+ a; L, u
' i, ^$ b% `9 p" k; Z2 WComFree, which sells services to support sales by owner, reported 1,212 new listings in May.
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o. K ?% ]8 `( B1 u7 j; pComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,
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Both REA and ComFree reported average listing periods of 22 days for homes that sold.
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" f2 ^3 }% W* S6 o0 HBut fears of higher interest rates have hurt confidence among Alberta business leaders and consumers -- especially about home buying -- in a new survey for PricewaterhouseCoopers, released Monday.
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2 g: n$ \. K* L"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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