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Price is still rightEdmonton Real Estate Board president expects a 15% climb in 2007, M- u+ Z" C, j7 t
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Madeline Sarafinchan is out. Carolyn Pratt is taking over the Edmonton Real Estate Board president's gavel - the kind of blunt instrument that some realtors, I suspect, would like to use on ComFree Edmonton upstart Travis Holowach. More on that later. 0 Y+ [4 E* @, O
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"We feel the increase will come because there will be continued demand, consumer confidence, a very robust economy and low interest rates," Pratt whooped at the EREB's New Year's kick-off conference at the Westin. "All the factors are there for another terrific year." - u/ g! L, f5 Q7 _7 V2 d3 g
0 A; i2 J+ f8 C$ V- W7 @She predicted that the total number of residential sales isn't expected to increase in 2007 - despite thousands of pot-of-gold seekers still flocking to the capital region from across the country as Ontario continues to sputter.
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"There just won't be enough houses to sell," she sighed.
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation senior analyst Richard Goatcher was also talking a good-news-bad-news scenario at the board meeting.
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"The big issue is, are we going to see continued in-migration into the city with the volumes we had last year?" Goatcher said. His expectation is "somewhat less." , d0 |7 z8 W5 f7 Y
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"A lot of it is due to capacity issues," he said. Developers are running out of serviced lots in some areas. Some homebuilders "got a little overstretched" during last year's house-building frenzy. . C$ c z: \- P( L5 a$ c0 x: S
. ~+ C' _- T! O$ d( \6 F) d"There are too many shortages in the system," he shrugged.
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/ a9 |- q" g. c0 p% b$ v8 H"But it's still going to be very, very strong," he quickly added, with the average new-home selling price ramping up by 20%.
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His 2006 wind-up report shows 4,375 total sales and 5,721 new listings, up 74% from 2005 - clearly sucking up a lot of the inventory that would otherwise have gone to an EREB realtor. + @- ]" W/ u' |1 W! v# x# N
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$ k2 ^- m/ v3 \Yesterday ComFree was still claiming 30% share of the residential market. And "commissions saved" of $82 million from his sell-it-yourself operation. Which, of course, is what the battle is really all about. 7 m2 N: m- e5 w4 D/ _; ^$ Q
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"We do 95% of the sales in the real estate market," Pratt countered. - c! R8 B1 i5 H8 m2 J$ F+ G
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