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Home sales ramped up in Montreal last month, marking four years of continuous growth.

Quebec’s real estate broker association says home sales in metropolitan Montreal rose eight per cent to 4,370 in February compared with the same month in 2018.

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Condominium sales shot up 14 per cent to 1,588, while single-family home sales increased four per cent to 2,436.

Sales of plexes, which include two to five units, hit 339, a seven per cent bump from February 2018.

The Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers says the average residential price increased 4.9 per cent to $388,398 in metropolitan Montreal and by 6.1 per cent to $505,780 on the island of Montreal.

The median price of single-family homes in the metropolitan area increased three per cent year over year to $320,000. The median condo price sat unchanged at $250,000, while the median price of plexes jumped eight per cent to $522,000 last month from $484,000 a year earlier.

On the island of Montreal, sales of single-family homes were down 12 per cent year over year, and prices remained essentially flat, rising a quarter of a per cent to $462,500.

Sales of condos on the island rose four per cent, while sales for plexes were up nine per cent. The median selling price of a condo rose eight per cent, from $300,000 to $325,000.

The median selling price of a plex was also up eight per cent, at $589,500.

With files from the Montreal Gazette