WinnipegRealtors MLS Multiple Listing Service: Winnipeg

Royal LePage Dept: The real estate company, which has franchise offices across the country, said Thursday the average selling price of a Winnipeg home jumped 5.1 per cent to $240,000 in 2011, while units sales grew by 5.9 per cent to 12,250, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Royal LePage's sales total for 2011 differs from the WinnipegRealtors MLS Multiple Listing Service total of 13,065 because the latter includes sales of cottages and vacant land as well as condos and detached homes and iT'S onward and upward for Winnipeg's resale homes market in 2012, although the pace of growth will be slower than in 2011, according to the latest housing forecast from Royal LePage. It's predicting the average selling price will climb 4.2 per cent to $250,000 this year and unit sales will rise 2.9 per cent to 12,600. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.