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5月份 爱城房地产报告( ~2 ^! r& E& ]/ I0 ?) C' U
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EDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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r5 d1 T, g1 L* uThat's more than the entire year of 2005 and up 37.4 per cent over the first five months of 2006.7 f/ `: {5 n2 B, p/ x: @- V
1 J7 F% }4 `. r. w3 R8 q/ h: tSales through the multiple-listing service had been constrained by a tight supply. But realtors listed 4,850 homes in May compared to 3,151 in April.
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, |$ a% ]1 f! r0 AWith 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.
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But the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.0 Q& v/ U; \. ^% ]
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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 $266,100.4 E' N* {( @0 {! B
' `2 m" }. M$ D1 J/ E5 a2 jComFree, 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 $207.5 million,7 n$ {1 Y& k+ I+ ]( B# W
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Both REA and ComFree reported average listing periods of 22 days for homes that sold.0 k* r+ U7 A) U) n8 n' M4 c
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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.
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"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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