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Archives for January, 2010

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 25-29 2010

Following a few weeks of sales that were softer than expected and listing activity that appeared to be escalating both of those short-term trends reversed directions.
Saskatoon real estate agents reported a total of sixty-three single-family home and condominium sales to the local MLS system, an increase of eighteen properties over last week and a gain [...]

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Home renovation tax credit deadline looms but there may still be time for you

The opportunity to take advantage of Canada’s Home Renovation Tax Credit expires at midnight on January 31. Obviously, the clock has run out when it comes to hiring a contractor but a quick trip to your favorite home renovation store might be in order if home improvements are part of your plan over the next [...]

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Housing affordability in Saskatoon shows modest year-over-year improvement

I can’t imagine that it would come as much of a surprise to anyone that the cost of home ownership in Saskatoon has skyrocketed in recent years. According to the recently released “6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey” owning a Saskatoon home priced at the median in Q3/2009 would have cost about 4.4 times [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 18-22 2010

Home sales in Saskatoon continued at a sluggish pace picking up just five units over the previous week to finish with forty-five houses and condos firmly sold, a drop of thirty-five percent compared to the same week last year when 69 homes found a sold sign. Unless the coming week produces sales that are double [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 11-15 2010

Saskatoon home sales continued to move at a slower than expected pace this week as real estate agents reported firm sales on just forty single-family homes and condominiums. Forty sales marks a notable increase from last week when just twenty-five homes sold, but it leaves us down on a year-over-year basis for the second consecutive [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 4-8 2010

The new year started with a bit of a thud, as Saskatoon home sale numbers continued to look a lot like Christmas. A total of twenty-five houses and condominiums were reported sold by local real estate agents, matching last week’s numbers, but well behind the forty-one homes that traded during the same week last year. [...]

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Q4 house prices in Saskatoon show increases over last year: Royal LePage

Saskatoon’s real estate markets saw solid improvements in the final quarter of 2009 across housing types, according to the latest Royal LePage Market Survey Forecast and House Price Survey.
In Saskatoon, standard condominiums sold for an average of $197,500, up 5.9 per cent from the same period last year. Detached bungalows sold for an average of [...]

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A closer look at the Saskatoon real estate statistics for December 2009

The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors recently reported December 2009 results for the entire residential category of Saskatoon real estate that includes single-family homes, condominiums, semi-detached properties, duplexes, mobile homes and vacant lots. Unit sales totaled 211 properties across all of these property types, at an average selling price of $291,554. Let’s have a look [...]

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Saskatoon home sales surpass 2008 levels in 2009: SRAR

The Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® (SRAR) released the residential real estate statistics for December 2009 today, accompanied by this release.
In the month of December Saskatoon REALTORS® assisted 211 buyers to fulfill their home ownership dreams, this number up 31% from December 2008 when 161 homes were purchased. Year to date 3,822 residential units have [...]

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How was 2009 for property values in your Saskatoon neighbourhood?

Are you at least a little bit curious about the current price trends for real estate in your neighbourhood? We’ve been putting in some OT over the past couple of days to bring you the latest look into the trends for each Saskatoon area. Those numbers are now available on our “Saskatoon neighbourhoods” pages, but [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review-December 28 to January 1 2010

A total of twenty-five single-family homes and condominiums were reported sold to the Saskatoon MLS system over the past week, a drop of five from the previous week, but nearly double the number that traded during the same period last year.
Thirteen new listings were offered for sale over the past seven days, down two from [...]