{"id":14316,"date":"2023-03-17T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/canadian-home-sales-drop-40-per-cent-in-february-compared-with-year-ago\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T03:09:15","slug":"canadian-home-sales-drop-40-per-cent-in-february-compared-with-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/canadian-home-sales-drop-40-per-cent-in-february-compared-with-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian home sales drop 40 per cent in February compared with year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

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February\u2019s home sales plummeted 40 per cent from a year ago to levels not seen since before the pandemic as new listings and prices also dropped in what one economist called \u201chints of a bottoming process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plunge in sales came as actual average home prices declined 18.9 per cent compared with the all-time record posted in February 2022, the Canadian Real Estate Association said in a press release.<\/p>\n

The actual average home price in Canada was $662,437 in February, down from $816,578 a year earlier, the\u00a0association\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Compared with January, national home sales rose 2.3 per cent in February from January, powered by gains in Toronto and Vancouver, while the number of newly listed properties dropped 7.9 per cent month over month.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s housing market has been sluggish for many months as the Bank of Canada hiked the interest rate eight times in roughly a year, pushing up mortgage rates and scaring off potential buyers. Sellers have also been deterred from the market because they won\u2019t fetch as much now as their neighbours did for homes sold when prices were soaring to new highs during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we don\u2019t have much supply, people are frantically going for whatever comes on the market,\u201d Tirajeh Mazaheri, a Coldwell Banker Prestige Realty agent in Vancouver said.<\/p>\n

CREA chair Jill Oudil also foresees a more robust market on its way.<\/p>\n

This report by The\u00a0Canadian\u00a0Press was first published March 15, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n