The 2,443 homes sold in June are also more than double the 1,109 sales registered in April, at the peak of pandemic restrictions.

Sales were nearly 10 per cent above the 10-year October average, and while prices were down year over year, they stopped their month-to-month slide.

Condo and townhouse prices were down about seven per cent over April last year, while detached home prices dropped 11 per cent.

The slide in prices comes as sales dipped to 46.3 per cent below the 10-year March sales average, making it the lowest number of sales since 1986. 

Canadian homes sales plunged 19 per cent year-over-year in December, and prices fell almost 5 per cent.

The Canadian Real Estate Association says sales were down 3.7 per cent from October of last year, driven by lower activity in B.C.

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Prices dropped too. But a bank noted that they held up "relatively well."

The CMHC stressed that it doesn't dispute that foreign buyers affect home prices.