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5月份 爱城房地产报告
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- @9 A" I' A$ ]" ~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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That's more than the entire year of 2005 and up 37.4 per cent over the first five months of 2006.! F. e' D2 v5 X. e' i K/ f
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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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) c% \0 T3 G0 KWith more inventory, sales rose to 2,839 units in May from 2,441 in April.& D) U6 M# B: t, ~6 c% v: D0 n
1 b: D8 ?+ m8 T3 E' D% ^0 ^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.- }. ^3 I/ \' Z- a6 B& i
+ P' ~' E) O- e& b* ~3 T8 \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 $266,100.2 \5 G. Q G9 [; R7 j2 a3 Z
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ComFree, which sells services to support sales by owner, reported 1,212 new listings in May.+ m/ K( x8 U' \8 M/ h5 ~2 f4 s: C, L
( b. @% A- s# c% R7 d. }ComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,/ V0 ^/ L# A% i8 M/ [+ e
- Y$ S0 _6 C- c7 \" sBoth REA and ComFree reported average listing periods of 22 days for homes that sold.7 _. `* @: `; V# C0 X5 a0 i
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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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