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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
2 s4 W& y+ m2 O: F/ e8 PPublished: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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Average house prices have hit half a million dollars in southwest Edmonton and almost $400,000 across the Capital region.
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“It is clear that housing prices have not yet peaked,” Carolyn Pratt, president of th Edmonton Real Estate Board said Wednesday, releasing the March sales figures from the Mutiple Listing Service.$ X2 X0 z3 i& n
; ]9 V/ G U$ wEdmonton-area prices averaged $398,476 for single-family homes and $325,339 for all housing forms.
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In only the first three months of this year, average home prices have climbed 12.4 per cent, so Pratt has abandoned her earlier forecast of a 15 per cent increase for the full year.+ o' A1 t$ ?/ y( }% E1 j
+ a3 e6 }1 N3 T7 A3 |! J$ j( o- A“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.3 s1 w- {( R+ R D+ g; \
Average 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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