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Monday night’s meeting of Saskatoon city council’s executive committee produced nearly five hours of “discussion and heated debate,” on proposed changes to the city’s condo conversion policy according to a report in this
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Tenants of the Saskatoon Milroy Apartments received offers to purchase their units from the developer yesterday. Two of them kindly dropped me a note and I thought you might be interested in the details. A tenant living on the 12 th floor writes, “
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Tenants of Saskatoon’s Milroy Apartments learned Thursday of their lost court challenge aimed at stopping the condo conversion project at their building, which was approved by Saskatoon city council on January 14, 2008. “The decision was that
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Tenants of Saskatoon’s Milroy Apartments asked Justice Mona Dovell to overturn the City of Saskatoon’s decision to approve an application to convert the apartments to condos on Tuesday. Andrew Mason, the lawyer representing the group of tenants
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You’ve got to know that Saskatoon community services manager, Paul Gauthier is having some long days at work. He’s one of the civic officials responsible for processing condominium conversion applications. That can’t be a real funfest
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In spite of the fact that approval has been obtained and the Kelsey Apartments have been separately titled, the building’s owner, Victory Majors Investment Co. has decided to abandon its plans to sell the units off. Kay Nasser, founder of the company
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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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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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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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Anger was the dominant emotion at Monday’s city council meeting when the application by Viking Developments to convert Saskatoon’s Milroy Apartments to condos was approved. Current bylaws require conversion applications which affect more than
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The Rental Market Report released yesterday by Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation (CMHC) shows apartment vacancy rates in Saskatoon falling to a record low of just .6%, down from 3.2% last October. Saskatoon “Southwest” showed the largest
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Saskatoon City Council approved proposed changes to policies governing the conversion of existing rental apartments to condominiums at last night’s council meeting . City administrators presented their report which was prepared in response to a
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Justice Minister Frank Quennell told reporters at a press conference yesterday that the “issue of decreasing rent supply…is an emergency. By the time you realize that it’s a crisis and that you’ve significantly decreased the rental
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I read an article today written by commercial real estate/property management specialist, Don Sylvester of Saskatoon Real Estate Services which appeared in “The View,” the monthly newsletter of the Saskatoon and Region Association of REALTORS
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I thought it would be interesting to compare the average selling price of Saskatoon homes during the month of May, 2007 to those recorded in May, 2006 in order to provide some perspective on Saskatoon real estate price increases. This first category compares
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