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New housing prices drop slightly in February: Statscan

Contractors’ selling prices decreased 0.7 per cent between January and February, compared with a 0.6 per cent decline a month earlier. Statistics Canada reports the New Housing Price Index was down 1.8 per cent in February from a year earlier — the second straight year-over-year decrease and the largest decline since a two per cent drop in September 1996. The agency says that between January and February, prices declined three per cent in Edmonton, 2.9 in Vancouver, 2.1 in Saskatoon, 1.
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Contractors’ selling prices decreased 0.7 per cent between January and February, compared with a 0.6 per cent decline a month earlier. Statistics Canada reports the New Housing Price Index was down 1.8 per cent in February from a year earlier — the second straight year-over-year decrease and the largest decline since a two per cent drop in September 1996. The agency says that between January and February, prices declined three per cent in Edmonton, 2.9 in Vancouver, 2.1 in Saskatoon, 1.7 in Victoria and 0.9 in Calgary. StatsCan blames poor market conditions in all cities but Saskatoon, where it says declines were due to lower material and labour costs and competitive market conditions.