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Home resales jump 73%

OTTAWA — Canadian home sales jumped 73 per cent in November from a year earlier as the real estate market continued to recover from the economic downturn.

The Canadian Real Estate Association said Tuesday that 36,383 residential properties were sold last month, with Ontario and Quebec setting sales records for November.

"The current strength of housing demand stands in sharp contrast to weak activity recorded one year ago," CREA said in its report, adding that activity was just 4/10 of a per cent below the highest level for the month recorded in November 2007.

 "National home sales activity last month shows how strongly the housing market has rebounded since the beginning of the year," said CREA president Dale Ripplinger. "As we predicted last April, the rebound in resale housing activity led the overall Canadian economy out of recession."

 The national residential average price was $337,231 in November, up 19 per cent from a year earlier.

THIS ENTRY WAS POSTED ON December 15th, 2009 BY Mark Longpre | POSTED IN General ,