Welcome, everybody. It's mMay first and I take a look back at all the sales in April, the entire month, and that is the first full month in this pandemic, as you may remember. The markets, everything was shut down around the middle of March.

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So March's report was still half normal, half pandemic. So now we're taking a look at the first full month to see what numbers have done. Bottom line listenings her down, sales are down, but the intensity remains. I'll show you what I mean. And I usually compare to the previous month. But really, the best way to compare is to the same time period previous year.. So what we have is last year in April, we sold 85 condos.

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This year, 42. So that's half. Last year we sold 558 houses in that time period. This year, just 375. These are numbers for inside Winnipeg. And they're gonna be different than what Winnipeg REALTORS® puts out simply because Winnipeg REALTORS® covers the entire south east quadrant of Manitoba, including Steinbach and Portage LaPrairie and Selkirk, whereas I'm looking at only Winnipeg. All right, let's look at available listings. So last year, this is under a quarter million dollars.

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Last year we had 363. This year we've got 285. So that's quite a bit down. Last year, 250000 to five hundred thousand dollar homes. At the end of April, we had 694 this year, just 590. So that's down about 14, 15 percent. And the luxury homes last year we had 378 available this year, just 338. So that's about 40 down. That's another 10, 11 percent.

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So as I mentioned before, listings are down, but so are sales last year, quarter million dollars or less. We sold 156 homes, this year just 93. In the 250 to five hundred thousand dollar range, Last year we sold 357, this year, just 247. So that's about a 30 percent drop.

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And last year, in the luxury home range of half million or more, we sold 45 homes this year, just 35. So as you can see, listings are down and sales are down. So how do you correlate the numbers? I mean, if one of them is significantly different than the other, it will have an effect on whether it becomes a buyer's market or a seller's market. And to look at that, we take what's called an inventory quotient.

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So we take a look at how many days it would take to sell everything that's out there at the current sales rate. The lower the number, the hotter the market.

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So last year, under 250000 dollars, it was 72 days. This year, it's 92 days. So it would take an extra 20 days to sell everything that's out there so that it's become a slower market than last year, same time. The same holds true for all the other price...

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