Archives for February, 2009
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 27, 2009
Sales of Saskatoon houses and condos continued at a rather lackluster pace this week as local real estate agents reported just forty-seven sales, up two units from last week, but nearly half the number reported during the same week last year when ninety-two such properties sported a sold sign.
Residential listing activity remained brisk as seventy-four [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 21, 2009
Sales were sluggish for the third week of February with Saskatoon real estate agents reporting firm sales on a total of forty-nine residential units including thirty-six single-family homes, nine condominiums, three semi-detached homes and one mobile. At just forty-five houses and condos (the units we track here), that number represents a drop of fifteen properties [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 14, 2009
The inventory of residential real estate listings gained some ground again this week breaking the 1,200 mark for the first time since late December to settle at 1,213 units including 737 single-family homes and 395 condominiums. Last year at this time, total residential listings sat at 361 units including 189 single-family houses and just 133 [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 13, 2009
Citizens of Canada’s are no strangers to asbestos problems. Used throughout the 20th century as a prominent building material and insulator, health hazards related to asbestos has affected millions worldwide. Highly regarded for its qualities as heat and fire resistant, homes, buildings, and other products built before 1980 could still contain asbestos materials.
If you are [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 11, 2009
The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors recently reported January results for the entire residential category of Saskatoon real estate, which includes single-family homes, condominiums, semi-detached properties, duplexes, mobile homes and vacant lots. Unit sales totaled 213 properties across all of these property types, and an average sale price of $278,545. Let’s have a look at [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 7, 2009
Following a month end retreat in January, the total inventory of Saskatoon real estate listings pushed higher this week and settled at 1,186 units, up from 1,124 the week before. One hundred and fifty-three residential properties were offered for sale on the Saskatoon MLS system including eighty-nine single-family homes and fifty-three condominiums to claim the [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 3, 2009
The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors (SRAR) released the residential real estate statistics for January 2009 today, along with the following media release.
Saskatoon REALTORS® assisted 213 buyers to fulfill their home ownership dream. This represents an increase in unit sales over the last three months. Compared to last year’s very active January market unit sales [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on February 1, 2009
Saskatoon real estate sales sputtered some as just 46 single-family home and condo sellers reported a firm sale on their property, down from 69 sales the previous week, and 76 for the same week last year. Residential unit sales for the month of January will come in well below numbers produced last year. They’ll also [...]