September 2007 - Posts
Whether or not you wish to call it a downtrend, there should be little question that the Saskatoon real estate market has cooled considerably when compared to recent months. It’s beginning to feel “normal” again with listings lingering
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In spite of a reduction in new residential listings and marginally higher home sales the Saskatoon real estate market continued it slow but steady trend towards “balance.” A total of 110 Saskatoon homes were placed on the market, while 83
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According to a new report by Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan experienced the largest increase in retail sales when compared to all other Canadian provinces between July 2006 and July 2007. Retail sales in Saskatchewan surged ahead 11.5% during the study
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Doug Elliot, publisher of the Sask Trends Monitor newsletter is warning that consumer spending has “gone into some kind of bubble that’s going to burst.” In a Star Phoenix story titled, “ Sask. Consumer spending expected to peak
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The Saskatoon real estate market continued to plug along showing little real change over the previous week . New listings of Saskatoon homes outpaced sales by a fairly large margin and the week closed with 610 active residential listings on the Saskatoon
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If learning that Saskatoon will be the economic growth leader in Canada this year wasn’t enough for you, check out this report written by Bank of Nova Scotia economist Adrienne Warren which sees Edmonton and Saskatoon homes as the most “overvalued”
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The Conference Board of Canada announced today that Saskatoon will replace Calgary as Canada’s economic growth leader in 2007. Calgary has topped the list of Canadian municipalities for the last two years. The Conference Board’s website provides
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The average selling price of a Saskatoon home took a substantial jump in August, recovering all which appeared to be lost in July, and then some. The average selling price of houses and condos combined climbed to $258,508 from $245,893 in July. Total
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RBC’s most recent housing affordability survey was released yesterday and it should come as no surprise that Saskatoon and Saskatchewan once again received special attention showing some of the sharpest erosion of affordability when compared to
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The Saskatoon real estate market took its biggest leap towards “balance” this week as new listings of houses, condos and duplexes outnumbered sales by nearly two to one. A total of 126 new listings came on the market while just 66 homes found
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One bee-lee-yun dollars! The Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® announced today that Saskatoon real estate agents have reported sales in excess of one billion dollars so far in 2007. The figure includes transactions in all real estate categories
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Last week , I indicated that I thought we were going to see some bleak numbers for Saskatoon real estate sales in this week’s report. As it turns out, sales were pretty much on par with recent weeks. A total of 89 Saskatoon homes were reported sold
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