Friday, March 12, 2010
New house prices in Canada kept climbing in January, rising 0.4 percent from the previous month as expected, according to Statistics Canada on Thursday.
On a monthly basis, the housing-only part of the new housing price index rose by 0.5 percent and the land-only component edged up 0.1 percent.
New home prices firmed 0.1 percent in January from a year earlier, the first year-over-year increase since December 2008.
Despite nationwide gains, prices have been falling in Western Canada, which saw huge price spikes prior to the current economic crisis.
The Canadian housing market slumped during the recession last year but never underwent a U.S. style collapse. Strong sales and price gains in current months have led to worries of a made-in-Canada housing bubble and prompted the government to tighten mortgage lending rules in February.
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