{"id":1043,"date":"2014-06-13T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2014-06-13T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:53:07","slug":"strongest-may-for-home-sales-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/strongest-may-for-home-sales-since-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Strongest May for Home Sales Since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Vancouver, BC \u2013 June 13, 2014. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u00a0The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that a total of 8,729 residential sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service\u00ae (MLS\u00ae) in May, up 13.9 per cent from May 2013. Total sales dollar volume was $4.9 billion, an increase of 20.6 per cent compared to a year ago. The average MLS\u00ae residential price in the province rose to $565,233, up 5.8 per cent from the same month last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bcrea.bc.ca\/sf-images\/economics\/2014-05chart.gif?sfvrsn=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"236\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"12\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cConsumer demand was noticeably stronger last month, with unit sales posting their highest level for the month of May since 2007,\u201d said Cameron Muir, BCREA Chief Economist. \u201cRock bottom mortgage rates are inducing many would-be home buyers to enter the market this spring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cWith most BC markets now in balanced conditions, home prices are up in nine of 11 board areas,\u201d added Muir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">During the first five months of the year, BC residential sales dollar volume was up nearly 26 per cent to $18.8 billion, compared to the same period last year. Residential unit sales were up almost 17 per cent to 32,894 units, while the average MLS\u00ae residential price was up 7.7 per cent at $571,648.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC \u2013 June 13, 2014. \u00a0The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that a total of 8,729 residential sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service\u00ae (MLS\u00ae) in May, up 13.9 per cent from May 2013. Total sales dollar volume was $4.9 billion, an increase of 20.6 per cent compared to a year<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/strongest-may-for-home-sales-since-2007\/\" class=\"read-more\">&nbsp; Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,33,5,4],"tags":[37,38,36,15,35,60,13,9,14,68,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridjarisz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}