WINNIPEG –   The first quarter was outstanding as it edged out the best first quarter ever in 2007 with over 2,500 in MLS® sales and $570 million in dollar volume (no previous first quarter has eclipsed one-half a billion dollars before). March MLS® sales came close to 1,200 while dollar volume was at $275 million. This result is clearly more spring-like in activity so whatever winter weather prevailed in March it did not stop buyers from completing transactions. In fact, the equivalent of 73% or nearly 3 out of 4 new listings were sold in March and 46% of the active MLS® inventory was depleted. In the southwest and southeast quadrants of the city where the average residential-detached sale price were both over $300,000, a good number of the MLS® areas converted more listings to sales t... 04/07/2011