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Table 1 New housing price indexes

New housing price indexes
  2010 May 2009 April 2010 May 2010 April to May 2010 May 2009 to May 2010
  Relative importance1 (1997=100) % change
Canada total 100.00 153.5 157.5 158.0 0.3 2.9
House only ... 160.8 167.5 168.2 0.4 4.6
Land only ... 138.1 137.4 137.7 0.2 -0.3
St. John's 1.20 180.3 191.0 191.4 0.2 6.2
Charlottetown 0.31 121.0 118.7 119.1 0.3 -1.6
Halifax 1.22 150.5 151.5 151.7 0.1 0.8
Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton2 0.88 120.6 121.1 121.8 0.6 1.0
Québec 2.46 165.6 170.8 171.9 0.6 3.8
Montréal 10.11 165.2 169.3 169.8 0.3 2.8
Ottawa–Gatineau 4.71 169.6 176.4 176.7 0.2 4.2
Toronto and Oshawa2 33.99 144.6 148.1 149.2 0.7 3.2
Hamilton 2.96 149.1 152.2 153.1 0.6 2.7
St. Catharines–Niagara 0.96 155.5 157.1 157.1 0.0 1.0
London 1.91 144.4 150.4 150.3 -0.1 4.1
Kitchener 2.17 142.7 145.2 144.0 -0.8 0.9
Windsor 0.65 103.7 104.0 103.8 -0.2 0.1
Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay2 0.85 112.7 113.0 113.0 0.0 0.3
Winnipeg 1.62 182.0 190.3 190.7 0.2 4.8
Regina 0.59 250.9 260.5 269.4 3.4 7.4
Saskatoon 0.81 210.3 219.5 219.8 0.1 4.5
Calgary 7.88 229.1 235.7 236.3 0.3 3.1
Edmonton 8.29 209.2 209.0 209.0 0.0 -0.1
Vancouver 14.39 114.0 120.3 120.6 0.2 5.8
Victoria 2.04 110.4 106.5 106.1 -0.4 -3.9
not applicable
The relative importance is calculated using a price adjusted three-year average of the value of building completions for each metropolitan area.
In order to ensure data confidentiality, the following census metropolitan areas and census agglomeration are grouped together as follows: Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton; Toronto and Oshawa; and Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
Note(s):
View the census subdivisions that comprise the metropolitan areas online.