The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home sales in February were up 45.6% compared with the same month last year when they hit a 10-year low.

The board says there were 7,256 homes sold last month in the Toronto region through its MLS system. That compared with 4,982 in February 2019.

After preliminary seasonal adjustments, the board says February sales were up 14.8% compared with January.

The average price rose to $910,290 compared with $779,791 in February last year.

New listings for the month totalled 10,613, up from 9,834 in the same month a year earlier.

TRREB’s forecast for the year predicts 97,000 home sales in 2020, up from 87,825 in 2019.

Sales growth will be strong this year,” board president Michael Collins said in a statement.

“However, the annual pace of sales growth experienced in February will likely not be sustained throughout the year, because we will be making comparisons to much stronger sales results reported after the first quarter of 2019.”