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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
; d+ I1 L' |9 Y& KPublished: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 t% T9 I S3 k4 c6 r! `
7 ?7 q( m9 {! N" o' ~Average 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.& F3 ^1 b% i+ A: e. y
, F1 h/ ^5 S% u& `6 v, UEdmonton-area prices averaged $398,476 for single-family homes and $325,339 for all housing forms.
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u# G) w0 F/ K ?' mIn 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.
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“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.
; P1 h+ d8 V, w1 f i% JAverage 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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