Greater Vancouver housing sales cooled off in April after moving at a red-hot pace the previous two months.

Canada’s third-largest metropolitan area saw residential sales of single-family detached, attached and condominium properties decline 21 percent to 3,225 year-over-year, according to the latest report from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Sales were off 8.2 percent from March. The board attributed the April sales decline to a slowdown in condo sales.

The board’s benchmark Housing Price Index for all residential properties rose to $622,991 in April, up 5 percent from $593,419. The benchmark represents the sales price of a typical property within the market and is considered a more accurate reflection of prices.

A sales spurt of multimillion-dollar homes in some parts of Vancouver skewed the average sales price of a home nationally, pushing it up to $372,544 in April, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.

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Westside Attached Attached:

We have compiled sales and listings statistics for the period running from January 4th to January 7th, and released them in this easy to read format! If you have any further questions or require more detail please get in touch with us. As we ease into the post-holiday 2010 market we have witnessed a signficant jump in new listing supply, well confirmed sales volume continues to lag; though that again could be partially attributed to the ‘holiday drag’ as contracts continue to be finalized and deals go firm.

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Westside Detached Report:

New listing supply in the Westside attached market continued to remain relatively stable with 43 new detached listings; quite comparable to the numbers we were seeing in the pre-holiday / post-recession market. Supply remained quite low in the face of active demand in the Kitsilano, Arbutus, Dunbar, and Cambie neighbourhoods as we continue to see equilibrium sale versus listing (1:1) ratios in those areas.

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