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National resale housing market activity bounced back strongly in the second quarter of 2009 above levels reported for the same period last year. Demand continues to rebound sharply in some of the most expensive markets in the country, skewing the national average price upward.
According to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), actual [...]

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The 20% drop attributed to decline in multiple starts,
especially in Toronto’s condominium segment.
The Canadian construction industry may have been the engine of economic growth for much of this decade, but recent figures show that it hasn’t been firing on all cylinders. Canadian housing starts cratered by a much-greater-than-expected 19.9 per cent to 117,400 annualized units [...]

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Resale housing activity in Canada in February 2009 was up from seasonally adjusted levels the previous month, according to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).
A total of 28,669 homes traded hands via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) nationally in February 2009 on a seasonally adjusted basis. This is 8.6 per cent above [...]

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