Edmonton housing prices slip

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Edmonton housing prices slip
& A7 M% f6 f2 yBill Mah, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 1:42 pm
EDMONTON - The average price of a single-family house in the Edmonton region dipped slightly in April, after three months of small increases, the Realtors Association of Edmonton said today.
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' g6 b/ [: Q% m. d2 nDetached houses sold for an average of $386,033 last month, down 0.4 per cent from the previous month. Single family house prices are down 6.6 per cent - or $27,455 - from April 2007 when the housing market was still simmering.
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"The Edmonton housing market is stable, and buyers and sellers seem to be coming to a realistic view of housing prices," said Marc Perras, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton.

" F" _, g! |- ]1 T0 J"While the typical sale is completed at 97 per cent of the asking price, many sellers have had to reduce their price to find the level that would attract a buyer."
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3 n; d9 _, l; B8 N* n$ c+ aThe average price of a condo in April - $256,947 - also dropped by 2.3 per cent from last month.

% z- X. G& c1 m0 M8 R8 fDuplexes and townhouses sold last month bucked the trend, selling for 2.3 per cent higher than last month, at average price of $316,065.
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; C' Q, @* s# C. bApril sales of all types of homes through the Multiple Listing Service was 1,823 transactions - down about 25 per cent from the same month last year. But April sales were still higher than the more typical years of 2004 and 2005, the association said.
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" L' p& d. F. Q; H- {7 `/ \The days a residential listing stayed on the market in April was 52, more than double the same month last year when it was 22.

. Y& P1 F( r6 Y' b. [8 ]bmah@thejournal.canwest.com

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