CREA unveils BlackBerry app for home buyers – The Globe and Mail

Anyone looking to buy a house in Canada this spring can now use a BlackBerry to search the Canadian Real Estate Association’s popular listings service – and to connect directly to a real estate agent anxious to close the sale.

CREA unveils BlackBerry app for home buyers – The Globe and Mail

Average price of B.C. home up 15 per cent from last year

The average price of a home in British Columbia rose 15 per cent from March of last year to March 2011, the B.C. Real Estate Association reported in a news release today.

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Average price of B.C. home up 15 per cent from last year

Canada’s housing market continues to stabilize

the star-After a roller coaster-style ride of highs and lows Canada’s housing market is showing increasing signs of stabilizing, with resale home sales rising for the third time in as many months, according to a new report.

Seasonally adjusted national home sales rose 4.6 per cent in October 2010, according to a report released Monday by the Canadian Real Estate Association. October’s increase followed similar activity in August and September, bringing current activity to 13.3 per cent above levels reported during the year’s low point in July.

Across the country sales activity for the month ran about halfway between the lows reached in December 2008 and record activity in late 2009, said Gregory Klump, the CREA’s chief economist, in a statement…

Canada’s housing market continues to stabilize – Moneyville.ca

Victoria home sales down 19 per cent

Times Colonist- Real estate sales in Greater Victoria are predicted to drop 19 per cent this year compared to last and then recover by five per cent in 2011, says a new forecast by the B.C. Real Estate Association.

A total of 6,200 sales are forecast for 2010, down from 7,660 last year, the report said. The coming year will likely see sales move up to 6,500.

The average price for all types of housing this year is anticipated to rise to $498,500, or 7 per cent, from $476,137 in 2009, the association said. Next year’s average is expected to edge down to $495,000…

Victoria home sales down 19 per cent

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