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5月份 爱城房地产报告
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- Q5 m! m3 w5 A$ T5 |! LEDMONTON - Edmonton-area real estate sales hit $1.2 billion in May and $4.3 billion for the first five months of 2007.
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& G+ ]' P8 p1 FThat's more than the entire year of 2005 and up 37.4 per cent over the first five months of 2006.7 q* {0 Q2 H. {$ K/ {# ^
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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., y& K, T8 d3 { b
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With more inventory, sales rose to 2,839 units in May from 2,441 in April.. w6 z' R$ s1 ?
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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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( H% f+ t* w, l4 B/ Z! k8 nBut the extra supply did not relieve prices, which rose at about $400 per day.
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) o0 d5 o( V2 n4 Q3 w1 \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 $266,100.8 j( I7 V) ]" k, c
. p7 W! E3 C: Z, h. c: xComFree, which sells services to support sales by owner, reported 1,212 new listings in May./ m& U7 }5 A1 u6 U) n' U
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ComFree reported 556 sales in May at an average price of $369,400, for a total of $207.5 million,; w4 ^% {0 Q: [9 z7 T# E. c
3 }' a; L- }. A& k# ]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.
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- i* D4 a3 E R' }+ } X"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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