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Housing market starting to improve

Conditions in the housing market seem to be improving, with the local real estate board data pointing to a big improvement in the home sales-to-new listing ratio in December. While the unseasonably warm weather may have played a role and house prices declined again, the recent fall in mortgage rates suggests that prices will soon stabilise.

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