Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week’s numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days: New Listings: 599 (765, 832, 781) # Sales: 271 (346, 275, 296) Ratio: 45% (45%, 33%, 38%) # Price Changes: 507 (569, 536, 399) # Expired/Off Market Listings: 195 (237, 194, 399) Net loss/gain in listings this week: 133 (182, 363, 86) Active single family home listings: 4342 (4256, 4109, 3898) Active condo listings: 2990 (2932, 2888, 2754) Homes 4-week running average: $449k ($436k, $425k, $417k) Condos 4-week running average: $253k ($247k, $243K, $228k) I thought this article was a good read this week, about the pricing trends in Edmonton. The benchmark price for single family homes in Edmonton is up 4.2% over 5 years, compared to 46.7% nationally and 8.3% in Calgary. The author smartly chose to include the positives like homes are still affordable in Edmonton, and young people can get into the market much sooner than other parts of the country.... oh, and that there is lots to choose from.   Have a great weekend! Posted by Liv Real Estate on
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The author is full of baloney. Resale townhouses and resale apartments today in Edmonton are down more than fifty percent in price from the spring 2007 peak. These are the identical townhouses and identical apartments. The author totally forgot the townhouse and condo market.

Posted by Tony on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 at 9:51pm

You understand "5-years" goes back 5 years, not 11 years right?
And you are saying that a typical town house that was $350k in 2007 is now $175k?! Even if you set aside that the property is now 11 years older this is pure BS.

Posted by a common guy on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 at 10:10pm

Like I said... if the Liberals are voted in again next election the whole housing market in Canada should be "affordable" for everyone. I imagine their goal is to get house prices down 90%. Then everyone would be happy. Right?

Posted by GM on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 at 10:12pm

Looking great, five year high for this time of year! Damn, I should have bought more houses.

Posted by Tom on Thursday, May 24th, 2018 at 10:12pm

@acommonguy

He's saying that the the new condo in 2007 is now worth about half as much as it was then. He is not comparing new condos then and new condos now; he's comparing what was new then to what is old now.

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 25th, 2018 at 3:58am

Why would you still be here? You've lost, houses are doing quite well.

Posted by Tom on Friday, May 25th, 2018 at 9:41pm

I am still waiting for the naysayers, and the right wing (and also left wing) ideologues who have been screaming bloody murder and the downfall/crash of the housing markets to come out and spread their horse kah kah.

Where are you all now?

Posted by 123kid on Saturday, May 26th, 2018 at 2:37am

@123kid

We're still here, don't worry.

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 26th, 2018 at 4:10am

Other than looking for an update in Weekly Stats there is not much to be here for Tom, or maybe some entertainment you and your "left wing" comrades are providing with your shortsighted comments.. First, I thought you were investing in sky condos and not houses ... As for this rosy picture of the real estate market you are painting, hopefully this positive outlook will last this fall considering the high inventory but I guess that's not seem to be relevant to you.

Posted by Reggie on Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at 1:00am

Hey Wally,
There is a sale that was reported at $200,000,000. I assume this is an error and it hasn't been fixed yet. That one sale is affecting the average. I removed it from our weekly report since it was artificially inflating the average.

Posted by Sara MacLennan on Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at 4:21am

The article and associated graph tells me that there is very modest growth in housing prices in Edmonton relative to other parts of the country. That is good for the young who want to be buy a home but I don't understand why an investor would tie up their hard earned in the Edmonton real estate market.

Posted by Stu on Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at 6:03am

There's something very strange happening just in Edmonton and it was happening last year as well and also only in Edmonton which is if you look at the moving average on Zolo website and I've been looking since last year in most major Canadian cities you notice a very big fluctuation in price I mean a couple of times the average for all houses reached over 1 million where in reality it's around 370-380 k and stayed there for a little while and if you look right now it's in the 600-700 k range.

Ok now I know the average can be skewed up and down at times by luxury properties or very cheap ones but I wonder why it is happening to very extreme levels and only in Edmonton when it is supposed to be happening everywhere normally.

What's going on in Edmonton? Any idea?

Posted by Wally on Sunday, May 27th, 2018 at 7:12am

Thanks Sara. Now I get it.

Posted by Wally on Monday, May 28th, 2018 at 12:45am

@ Stu and some others who have been complaining about the flat market for investors in the last decade in Edmonton I tell them it is normal to have a flat market because Alberta had a very big bubble almost from 2002 to 2007 when prices more than doubled so you know in the real estate cycle in Canada when something like that happens it is normal to have a correction of about 15%-20% for a few years after the bubble and then a flat market for sometimes up to 7-8 or more years.

The same exact thing happened in Toronto from 1986 to 1989 and a correction followed for almost 12 years.

But again as time passes prices will start to go up again slowly at first until the next bubble hit the same market like in Toronto in 2015-2017 and the bubble was supposed to continue until 2019 but this time they took measures and cut it short in 2017 to avoid a crash and severe recession that would have happened after 2019.

Anyways back to Edmonton the cycle will repeat like in Toronto but it will take time and now that almost 11 years have passed your chances are prices will start going up in a few years but slowly at first and as time goes by be ready for the next bubble probably intensifying somewhere after 2030 but prices will still start to go up before 2030 and like I said probably in a few years but not in double digits at first.

The point of my post is people sometimes are focused on one side of the equation and forget the other side like in Edmonton now they're bored with the flat market in the last ten years but they forgot that prices doubled in just two years 2006-2007 and forgot that those years were not boring at all and many investors who bought before 2005 made a killing but eventually you can't have a continuous bubble for ever because it is unsustainable without a correction.

Posted by Wally on Monday, May 28th, 2018 at 1:27am

I bought a built in 2004, 2 bedroom condo in 2007 for $276,000.
I plan to list it this month for a fire sale price of $172,000 (market says might be worth only about $182k?) because I hate being a landlord.
I am one of many people in this situation who are trying to get rid of properties bought in the boom 10 years ago.

Posted by Greg on Monday, May 28th, 2018 at 2:29am

Greg, condos are never a good investment unless there's something great about them, like Sky Condos downtown.

Posted by Tom on Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 at 8:11pm

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