February 2008 - Posts
When the City asked for developers to consider an exciting new “Urban Village” concept at River Landing , the call was answered by Michael Lobsinger, a former Saskatoon resident and now a successful real estate developer. On Wednesday, March
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Statistics Canada’ s latest income report contains some good news for the province. Saskatchewan led the country for overall income growth seeing average weekly earnings increase by 5.4%, compared to the 3.1% growth experienced nationally. Average
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It seems that Saskatoon has one of the most generous condo conversion policies, if you’re a landlord that is. Saskatoon city administrators are working hard to bring about a policy change in the city of Saskatoon. They’ve recommended a number
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On the surface, Saskatoon real estate activity this past week looked fairly similar to the week before . We saw about the same number of new residential listings enter the market and total active listings held steady at 364 units including 189 houses
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Saskatoon’s landmark hotel, the Delta Bessborough is now under new ownership. The British Columbia Investment Corporation (bcIMC) took ownership of the historic hotel on February 1 but just announced the acquisition recently. The new owners took
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I’m not big on interviews. Perhaps that’s a bit odd for someone who is the “media spokesperson” for his company. One of the biggest challenges is the deadlines. Reporters always seem to call about an hour before they’d like
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The inventory of active Saskatoon real estate listings slipped marginally to 361 units by the end of the week including 189 houses (single-family detached homes) and 133 condominiums. At the same time, this week brought the largest number of new residential
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Tenants at Saskatoon’s Milroy Apartments served notice to civic administrators Friday of their intentions to seek a judicial review of council’s recent decision to approve an application for a condominium conversion at the downtown apartment
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In contrast to the numbers released early this month by the Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® (SRAR), my research on January real estate sales shows a decrease in the average selling price of a home. SRAR reports on all residential property
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Saskatoon city council’s executive committee will consider proposed changes to our condo conversion policy at its February 25 th meeting. The proposal, brought forward by city administrators recommends a number of changes which they say would be
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The cost of building a new home in Canada increased 6.2%, year over year, according to the New House Price Index Report released today by Statistics Canada . “Regionally, prices again rose at the fastest pace in Saskatoon, which led the nation with
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The City of Cleveland is suing 21 mortgage lenders for damages that they claim to have incurred as a result of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage fallout. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson compares the resulting chaos to “ organized crime activity on neighborhoods,
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This is the lead statement in the general comments of a property first offered for sale on February 5, 2008. Act quickly!! Offers will be accepted until February 20th 2008. I have to ask myself, “Why should I act quickly?” It would seem to
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Saskatoon real estate sales slid slightly again this week while new residential listings took a pretty substantial jump. As a result, total active listings were up close to 10% over the previous week with a total of 377 properties displaying a for sale
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It seems to me that whenever disaster strikes anywhere in the world, Americans can be counted on to dig deep and give generously. Our neighbours to the south have experienced their share of disaster over the last few years. Just this week, thousands in
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Attention Bears! You may want to sit down for this. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its first quarter Housing Market Outlook today, and Saskatchewan is featured in the “Provincial Spotlight.” “During 2007, the
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The inventory of Saskatoon real estate listings slipped slightly this week to 347 houses and condos, down just a bit from 356 units the week before . Available stock of single-family homes actually increased by 10 properties to 169, and condo inventory
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When real estate prices see rapid and substantial change , it’s easy to lose sight of what that really means in terms of affordability. I thought it might be interesting to look back a few short years to show you how very different the Saskatoon
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This release came out today from Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors, Executive Officer, Harry Janzen. 2008 Housing Market Off to a Red Hot Start No slow down in sight for Saskatoon’s real estate market. REALTORS® took a short break at
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