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Price is still rightEdmonton Real Estate Board president expects a 15% climb in 20074 l' _8 P* M( Y9 ~
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They're changing the guard down at the Edmonton real estate palace. * e8 G, X# E! O/ E. N7 \
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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.
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% R8 t) {( Y4 |% RBut first, the EREB president's bold predictions and fearless forecasts. 3 S7 h1 n: q# J8 N: G
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Don't expect a repeat of last year's housing boom where condo and single family dwelling prices spiked an incredible 52%. Pratt is now calling for a more modest increase of 15%.
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|2 K1 ~! [- c) o1 P' m. c"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."
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) t0 q/ L. F0 N5 fShe 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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"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.
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3 l- e- w+ T: ?& u/ `" Y"But it's still going to be very, very strong," he quickly added, with the average new-home selling price ramping up by 20%. 9 m: ~* i* J! |) M2 x% }
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Over at ComFree Edmonton, president Travis Holowach was also celebrating what he described as a "steaming red hot" real estate market, and another "record-setting" year for his commission-free real estate service. ; s; e7 l7 L) P0 Y9 s& B4 N4 d% T
. N1 c3 a; p8 mHis 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.
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"Our growing presence in the marketplace is having a strong impact on the competition," Holowach winked.
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/ E- Q1 O0 H9 u' }) CYesterday 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.
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"We do 95% of the sales in the real estate market," Pratt countered. 9 r7 o1 ]; N, D, `
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