Canada's housing market (not just Summerland and Penticton Okanagan BC) is STRONG? Take a look here and compare your place and see if you would agree...........
House prices still strong
Canadian house prices rose 1.3 per cent in May from a month earlier, and now stand 4.2 per cent above their pre-recession peak, according to a Teranet-National Bank composite house price index. It marked the 13th straight month of increases and the second that prices rose in each of the six regions it covers. National Bank
economist Marc Pinsonneault contrasted that to the real estate market in the United States, where prices are down almost 30 per cent from their peak. In Canada, year over year, the index is up 13.6 per cent. The index differs from the measure used by the Canadian Real Estate Association.
"But we do not believe that acceleration in the Teranet-National Bank index will be sustained," he said in a research note. "... The number of existing homes sold has declined in each of the three months ending last June, and it did so to a much larger extent than the number of new listings. This heralds a deceleration in home price inflation, especially since a harmonized sales tax (HST) was introduced on July 1 in Ontario and B.C."
Among the gains:
- Ottawa, 2.3 per cent month over month, 11.4 per cent year over year
- Montreal, 1.8 per cent and 8.5 per cent
- Vancouver, 1.2 per cent and 17.1 per cent
- Calgary, 1.2 per cent and 7.8 per cent
- Toronto, 1.1 per cent and 16 per cent
- Halifax, 0.7 per cent and 5.6 per cent
Source: Michael Babad Globe and Mail Update Published on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 11:05AM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 12:51PM EDT
Canada's housing market (not just Summerland and Penticton Okanagan BC) is STRONG? Take a look here and compare your place and see if you would agree...........
Raymond MAASKE,BBA, CCC, ACRE, ATM-B
Summerland & Penticton, Okanagan, BC
Website: http://www.HomeStarRealty.ca
E-mail:raymond@HomeStarRealty.ca
Phone:250.488.8764
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Things are looking relatively good in Canadian real estate, although my market is pretty slow right now.