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13| The IFP -H alton H ills | T hursday,D ecem ber 7,2017 theifp.ca The average year-over- year real estate price for all types of homes in Halton Region has moved in only one direction since October of 2013 - up. According to monthly tracking from the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) for November, that 50- month hot streak has come to an end. TREB reported a 4.1 per cent year-over-year de- crease last month, com- pared to November 2016, with the average price of a home coming in at $833,656. That's compared to $869,641 a year ago. The last time that hap- pened was between Octo- ber 2012 and October 2013, when the average year- over-year price fell by 2.4 per cent. A majority of the de- clines came from the Oak- ville market, which is the region's busiest and prici- est. That market saw a 4.6 per cent decline over the same period last year. Oak- ville also saw a decline in sales from 314 last Novem- ber to 252 this year, or a 19.7 per cent drop. Halton's other three larger markets - Burling- ton, Halton Hills and Mil- ton - actually saw slight year-over increases in aver- age prices, but not enough to offset the declines seen in Oakville. Year-over-year price and sales declines came mostly in the detached home sector in the GTA ac- cording to TREB, which was the case in Halton as well. There were 398 de- tached homes sold across the region last month, worth a total value of $417,969,984, compared to 422 last November and $463,839,458. "The average selling price for all home types combined was down by two per cent compared to No- vember 2016, due in large part to a smaller share of detached home sales ver- sus last year," wrote TREB in its report for November. Total sales for all types of dwellings for the whole region were also down, while new listing were up year-over-year. The region saw a 5.4 per cent decline from 757 sales in November 2016 to 716 last month. On the flip side, new list- ings soared over last year jumping from 845 to 1,285 new dwellings hitting the market in 2017 - re- presenting a 52 per cent in- crease. Based on the laws of sup- ply and demand, more list- ings coupled with de- creased demand should translate to lower prices - which has been the trend since the spring when the Ontario government intro- duced a number of mea- sures in an effort to cool the GTA market. Going back to March 2017 - a month before the measures were introduced - the Halton real estate mar- ket clocked in at an average price of $1,014,760 for all types of dwellings. Since then, the average price for the whole region has tum- bled 17.8 per cent over the past eight months. Looking ahead, based on TREB's data, December is a traditionally slow month for real estate. As such, fur- ther price and sales de- clines may be on the hori- zon for Halton, at least in the short term. Only once since 2012 has the month- over-month average price increased between Novem- ber and December - and that was in 2013 when it went up 4.3 per cent. Prices have fallen by an average of 3.7 per cent month-over-month during that period in the other four years since 2012, while total sales fell by an aver- age of 38 per cent between November and December in each of the past five years. This report is based on monthly TREB price and sales tracking data since January 2012 collected by The IFP. NEWS Average year-over-year real estate price in Halton Region declines for first time since 2013 Year-over-year average real estate price in Halton fell last month for first time since October 2013. 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