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Home sales in Canada, understandably, have fallen as buyers and sellers stay home in coronavirus lockdowns, but so far prices have held up.

Canadian home sales declined 14.3% in March from February, but prices edged up 0.8% as new listings fell as well.

But some economists believe that as the virus’ impact on the Canadian economy deepens it will spread not only to housing sales, but prices as well.

“Although the housing market was very strong at the start of March, the disruption caused by COVID-19 has since caused home sales to fall off a cliff,” wrote Capital Economics’s Stephen Brown in a note this week.

Capital expects home sales face an even steeper fall this month to a “small fraction of their normal levels.”

The latest data out this week from Toronto Regional Real Estate Board appeared to support that view. Sales in the first half of April in Canada’s biggest market dropped 69% from a year ago. New listings were also down 64%, keeping the market tight.