Saskatoon real estate sales were certainly brisk this week with eighty-three house and condo deals firming up, trumping last week’s sales by seventeen units and finishing well ahead of the same week last year when just forty-seven properties changed hands. As the week drew to a close, so did the October sales month. My preliminary [...]
Media Release
Release: Immediate
Date: Friday October 30, 2009
Contact: Mike Lobsinger, Chief Executive Officer Lake Placid Group of Companies
(Saskatoon, SK, Canada): Michael E. Lobsinger, Chief Executive Officer of the Lake Placid Group of Companies, announced today that Lake Placid is in a situation where delays have arisen around the deadline with the City of Saskatoon. For this, [...]
Renovations are already underway on the main level of the 2nd Avenue Lofts in downtown Saskatoon. According to a media release issued by The Partnership yesterday, the retail space located at the corner of 2nd Avenue North and 23rd Street East will be home to the Uptown Market, a full service independent grocery store which [...]
Unit sales of single-family detached houses and condominiums saw a small increase to sixty-six units this week, up seven properties from last week and sharply higher than the same week last year when Saskatoon real estate agents reported just thirty-eight sales to the multiple listing service. While our market is unquestionably seeing a typical seasonal [...]
This commercial for Cullman Liquidation Center came to me by way of Tim Ayres, a Realtor from Sooke British Columbia who wrote in his Twitter stream, “This is easily the best real estate commercial in history.” Thanks for the laugh Tim!
Saskatoon’s MLS listings inventory closed the day below one thousand units today for the first time since early May of 2008 when the total number of residential properties for sale initially crossed into four digit territory. At the close of business today, 999 Saskatoon homes showed an active status on the multiple listing service.
Saskatoon MLS [...]
Like it or not, winter is coming and now is the time to get your home ready for it. A few hours looking after some preventative home maintenance items may save you from dealing with costly emergency repairs when everyone else is looking to have something fixed and service people are stretched thin.
Here is a [...]
After eight weeks of bouncing up and down Saskatoon home sales declined for the second week in a row to finish the week with fifty-nine properties sold, three fewer than last week, but still ahead of the same week last year by fourteen properties. By this time last year we had pretty much headed into [...]
Installing a high-efficiency furnace in your home is certainly good for the environment, and it’s also good for the household budget, in some cases reducing energy costs by more than thirty percent. In fact, according to SaskEnergy, “upgrading your heating equipment is the best improvement you can make to save energy and money.”
The chart below [...]
The trades training centre at Mount Royal Collegiate will undergo a $3.6 million dollar expansion in a joint effort between the federal and provincial government according to a story on the Star Phoenix website. Nearly $3.2 million dollars in funding will be provided by Western Economic Diversification Canada while the province contributes roughly $366,000.
“In order [...]
Statistics Canada’s new housing price index for August 2009 shows modest increases of just 0.1% from July to August in Saskatoon, and across the nation. On a year-over-year basis, the price of a new home in Canada fell 3.1% in August when compared to the same month last year. The decrease in the cost to [...]
