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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
$ s! D) |+ G* s$ o6 MPublished: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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$ s+ P9 N) K% p5 l8 s' PAverage house prices have hit half a million dollars in southwest Edmonton and almost $400,000 across the Capital region.
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“It is clear that housing prices have not yet peaked,” Carolyn Pratt, president of th Edmonton Real Estate Board said Wednesday, releasing the March sales figures from the Mutiple Listing Service., v+ P6 D$ r4 x" Z9 l' \! |
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Edmonton-area prices averaged $398,476 for single-family homes and $325,339 for all housing forms." Z3 Q% K' p: _) W- J' W2 v
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In only the first three months of this year, average home prices have climbed 12.4 per cent, so Pratt has abandoned her earlier forecast of a 15 per cent increase for the full year.9 x' ]; U$ P. W, S. y9 X
' F# O8 Q; w6 D1 T! |' x0 k“We’re predicting that prices will continue to rise until August, at four to five per cent per month, then at two per cent per month,” she said today.
) }+ o: `& G8 w L/ o, J$ gAverage prices for single-family homes varied from $501,838 in Southwest Edmonton, and $484,168 in St. Albert, to $320,600 in Morinville, $312,730 in northeast Edmonton and $281,480 in central Edmonton. |
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