Comments on: Calgary Mortgage and Real Estate Market Strong http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/uncategorized/calgary-mortgage-and-real-estate-market-strong/ Canadian and Alberta Real Estate and Mortgage Market Information with a slant toward positive comments in light of all the negative information out there Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: davers http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/uncategorized/calgary-mortgage-and-real-estate-market-strong/#comment-82 davers Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:18:57 +0000 http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/blog/?p=416#comment-82 Prices rose in April you say? CMHC says so, but they have a vested interest in people buying houses, so I always take what they say with a grain of salt. Teranet shows 10 straight months of decline in Calgary. I would tend to trust the teranet data more simply because their sample method makes a whole bunch more sense to me than the benchmark method. www.housepriceindex.ca if you want to check it out. <em> My sources are Calgary Real Estate Board Metro Calgary Single Family Homes. The methodology on the Teranet site shows a different calculation then simple median prices of all real estate year over year that I am using. - Greg Prices rose in April you say? CMHC says so, but they have a vested interest in people buying houses, so I always take what they say with a grain of salt.

Teranet shows 10 straight months of decline in Calgary. I would tend to trust the teranet data more simply because their sample method makes a whole bunch more sense to me than the benchmark method. http://www.housepriceindex.ca if you want to check it out.

My sources are Calgary Real Estate Board Metro Calgary Single Family Homes. The methodology on the Teranet site shows a different calculation then simple median prices of all real estate year over year that I am using.

- Greg

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