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Missed this one last week but the price of a new house is up 0.8% month over month (March to April), that is a lot! In Ottawa-Gatineau, year over year the housing prices are only up 2.5%, which is much more in line with "inflation" these days. Canada wide, however, the year over year increase in price is 8.9%, but you can guess where the major increases might be, which is interesting, because there are only 3 major areas that are really skewing the data (Calgary, Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon).

New Housing Price Indexes
	April 2007	April 2006 to April 2007	March to April 2007
	(1997=100)	% change
Canada	150.5	8.9	0.8
House only	160.2	8.2	0.6
Land only	131.4	10.4	0.9
St. John's	132.5	3.8	-0.2
Halifax	133.1	2.6	1.3
Charlottetown	117.1	1.5	-0.5
Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton	112.9	0.4	-0.2
Québec	146.7	3.8	0.0
Montréal	152.7	3.9	0.1
Ottawa–Gatineau	161.3	2.5	0.0
Toronto and Oshawa	139.4	2.3	0.0
Hamilton	148.2	5.7	0.6
St. Catharines–Niagara	149.7	5.0	0.0
Kitchener	138.0	1.5	0.6
London	135.5	2.6	0.1
Windsor	104.0	-0.5	0.0
Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay	105.1	3.5	0.9
Winnipeg	152.0	6.9	0.3
Regina	177.9	17.3	2.2
Saskatoon	168.1	24.9	2.1
Calgary	244.9	27.4	2.0
Edmonton	223.5	40.5	4.4
Vancouver	118.3	6.7	0.8
Victoria	116.8	-1.2	-0.9

Carnivals I am In:

• Live the Power is hosting The Personal Development Carnival where my post: Inspiration: You Can Do It (June 5, 1989) is mentioned. There is also a great post about Eat That Frog, that I really like!

Related Links:

• New House Price only up 9% in March
• Procrastinate on buying a house?

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