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Ottawa’s home buyers showed some resistance in July to prices in popular neighbourhoods from Westboro to New Edinburgh. Instead, they travelled further west and south in search of less expensive houses still within commuting distance.

That, at least, is the picture that emerges from sales data published Friday by the Ottawa Real Estate Board, which drew on reports from 3,000 realtors who use the multiple listing service.

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The board reported the benchmark price for single family homes across the city in July was $428,800, up eight per cent year over year. The increases ranged from 1.6 per cent in the city’s wealthiest neighbourhood of Rockcliffe Park to 12.1 per cent for the district of Hintonburg-West Centretown.

Of the 10 districts showing the fastest growth in house prices, fully half were clustered in the west end, including Barrhaven, Kanata, Stittsville, Qualicum-Bruce Farm and Bells Corners, where the most homes sold in the $400,000 to $480,000 range.