Prices continue to ease for new Canadian houses 新房涨势持续回落

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Prices continue to ease for new Canadian houses
CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, October 11, 2007

For Canada as a whole, prices rose 6.5 per cent over August 2006, a drop from 7.7 per cent annual growth in July. Growth has eased over the past 12 months.
On a monthly basis, prices increased 0.4 per cent between July and August, resulting in a New Housing Price Index of 155.1 (1997100).
In the Prairie region, high demand and rising labour costs for construction fuelled record year-over-year increases for Saskatoon, at a whopping 53.6 per cent, Regina at 29.2 per cent and Winnipeg 16 per cent.
In Alberta, housing price increases in Edmonton began to cool with a year-over-year increase of 30.2 per cent. Calgary registered a year-over-year increase of 6.1 per cent.
On the East Coast, housing prices rose seven per cent in Halifax and 4.5 per cent in St. John's over last year.

Percentage growth in housing prices by city (from August 2006):
St. John's +4.5
Halifax +7
Charlottetown +0.2
Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton +0.8
Quebec +3.9
Montreal +4.5
OttawaGatineau +1.1
Toronto and Oshawa +2.4
Hamilton +3.1
St. CatharinesNiagara +4.3
Kitchener +1.9
London +3.2
Windsor -2.8
Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay +4.1
Winnipeg +16
Regina +29.2
Saskatoon +53.6
Calgary +6.1
Edmonton +30.2
Vancouver +6.6
Victoria +0.4

涨势固然回落，但部分地区着实吓人，一年居然超过50%，要恭喜老杨枫叶等置业屯子里的，固定资产升值3成了 （二手房与新房比例该一致吧）