WinnipegREALTORS® Press Release, August 8, 2014

WINNIPEG - Not only were the ice cream vendors hopping in July. REALTORS® were kept busy too with the most active July in WinnipegREALTORS® 111-year history. Close to 1,500 MLS® sales were transacted with a record-breaking July dollar volume of nearly $390 million. MLS® listings kept coming on the market too with more than 2,300 new ones to whet the appetite of eager buyers. It resulted in building a healthy inventory of over 5,000 MLS® listings by month end. 

July 2014 compares favourably to a good month in June and was only 2% off June 2014 when it enjoyed the third highest sales for this month. This gives credence to comments made at the end of the second quarter that Winnipeg is in a delayed spring market due to a prolonged winter.
To show just how record-breaking this July was in terms of sales, July 2014 is only the second time MLS® sales reached over 1,400 sales for this summer month. It outperformed the...