B.C. home sales, prices down in February

Home sales in B.C. were down again in February, a slump the B.C. Real Estate Association continues to blame on federal mortgage-lending restrictions.
The BCREA reported Wednesday that a total of 4,533 residential-unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service last month, a decline of 27 per cent from the same month last year.
The average MLS residential price in the province was $678,625, a decline of 9.3 per cent from February 2018, according to the BCREA.
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