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Edmonton housing prices have largest one-month drop in city's history
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Published: 12:09 pm
+ F6 Y; P! h2 g) j1 HEdmonton-area home prices fell by almost $10,000 in August - the deepest drop in this city's history.
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; A, ]1 M9 X# K5 j5 `) pThe August average of $344,792, for all forms of housing, was down 2.8 per cent from July.
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Inventory rose to a record level of 9,185 listings with 4,331 homes newly listed during the month and only 1,229 sold.& p1 a7 P) [" Y0 F( |; N# A
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5 W7 R9 S( J* U/ U* v6 m4 b. M; XOne year earlier, inventory was just 2,138 units.
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; t' o+ ?# v$ ?4 fWhile sellers have lost the luxury of bidding wars, "buyers have a lot of choice," said Carolyn Pratt, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton - which released the figures, Wednesday.
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Average prices of single-family homes fell 3.2 per cent, in August, to $403,757. That rolls them back to the levels of March and April. But they're still up 27.6 per cent from 12 months earlier." t% }& {0 R' b" R$ T# c
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Percentage-wise, home prices have fallen more steeply in earlier years. From December, 1994 to January, 1995, average prices fell 6.5 per cent to $106,645. From June to July, 1984, they fell 7.9 per cent to $75,800. From February to March, 1964, they fell 23.1 per cent to $10,720.
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