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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
: z- w+ }; m# `Published: Wednesday, April 04, 20076 d" L% O) k( ~3 j( X8 s
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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./ z e: w6 y4 C2 M# H3 b: O5 x
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Edmonton-area prices averaged $398,476 for single-family homes and $325,339 for all housing forms.) @4 }- r, {* G3 ]" x- }
- V- r8 ?( Y4 dIn only the first three months of this year, average home prices have climbed 12.4 per cent, so Pratt has abandoned her earlier forecast of a 15 per cent increase for the full year.
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“We’re predicting that prices will continue to rise until August, at four to five per cent per month, then at two per cent per month,” she said today.
( L$ S/ r2 T( y* U/ O) b7 TAverage 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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