{"id":9540,"date":"2018-05-15T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=035448e26f319b8f1f2eddca64896daa"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:35:48","slug":"canadian-home-sales-fall-14-to-lowest-level-in-5-years-prices-down-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/canadian-home-sales-fall-14-to-lowest-level-in-5-years-prices-down-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian home sales fall 14% to lowest level in 5 years, prices down 11%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Real Estate Association says national home sales sank to the lowest level in more than five years in April, falling by 13.9 per cent year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>Sales were down in 60 per cent of all markets, led by the Fraser Valley, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>CREA says the national average sale price decreased by 11.3 per cent year-over-year last month to just over $495,000.<\/p>\n<p>On a monthly basis, home sales were down 2.9 per cent from March to April.<\/p>\n<p>However, the number of newly-listed homes also dropped by 4.8 per cent between March and April.<\/p>\n<p>Their decline puts the number of newly-listed homes 12 per cent below the 10-year monthly average, reaching a nine-year low for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales were down in 60 per cent of all markets, led by the Fraser Valley, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9634,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions\/9634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}