ZT: Edmonton home sales down 40 per cent compared to last January

枫情万种

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/H ... /1248520/story.html
( P5 u; A/ A: e* a: n* H# D
EDMONTON — Edmonton’s resale housing market sales kicked off the new year by stumbling out the gate — with residential MLS sales down 40.5 per cent compared to January 2008.
  W  W; P# O9 Q0 `. X' e' c
Every indicator fared worse than it did in January of last year, showed Multiple Listing Service figures released Tuesday.
' g8 P9 r6 l# S5 |
- Total MLS sales plunged 40.9 per cent.

- Value of total sales for the month was $265 million — down 42.4 per cent.
% u0 U: ^2 o( C1 R0 t/ n
" I* x, j* g2 m. l/ j- The single-family home average selling price fell 7.1 per cent to $352,689.

  F4 g9 d- H9 T* N& u- The average condo selling price dropped 7.5 per cent to $238,535.
, ?* s* ^7 y, g- ^2 q" d  P% o
+ ?+ J2 S! p. V, p- In the single-family market, there were 502 houses sold, down from 767 in January 2008.

- For condos, only 189 sold in January compared to 363 a year ago.
, q/ ^0 K# I  [
$ A4 q. `" {' R0 _" OFor all that, Charlie Ponde, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton, sounded optimistic, if cautious.

& @' L! f( e2 A9 [9 D0 z+ E. AHe looked on the bright side, the month-by-month comparison — January figures were modestly better than December’s gloomy statistics.
! H" K3 r0 J& l! z( G# f" a( o' e
: ~) J9 ~3 o% k+ h/ c# L, XMultiple Listing Service figures released Tuesday showed 730 residential properties sold in the Edmonton region in January, up from 608 in December.
' o+ U; m& M6 \6 w
Sales prices were also up in all categories as compared to the previous month. The average price of a single-family home in January was $352,689 — up a quarter of a per cent compared to December. Condo prices nudged up 1.8 per cent to $238,535 and duplex/rowhouses rose 2.2 per cent to $299,222.
& z5 X. L8 [8 J
$ J" e" T" P) C" g“Nobody rings a bell when prices hit the bottom,” he said. “The bottom is evident only after several months of rising prices. One month does not make a trend but the market is certainly welcoming to home buyers.”

He pointed to interest rates which have fallen to their lowest in years, a large selection of homes and recently introduced federal tax credits for home renovation and a change in the amount of RRSP savings that can be applied to a first-home purchase — now $25,000 up from $20,000.

yj151

末底改

成交量荡40%,只能说明买卖双方都不愿意入市.如果价钱荡40%的话,老末保证成交量会几倍增长.