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Earlier today, I was speaking with one of my colleagues, Bruce Claggett , who raised the question, “I wonder how many of the homes for sale in Saskatoon are vacant?” Our new MLS system didn’t provide a method of searching by occupancy,
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Saskatoon city council will consider recommendations being brought forward by its Administration for a “New Rental Construction Land-Cost Rebate Program” at the next council meeting on Monday April 7, 2008. This forwarded to me by a reader
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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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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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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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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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Over the past several months a number of my past clients have asked me about real estate opportunities in the U.S. The rising dollar, combined with reduced prices in some beautiful U.S. cities has many Canadians considering a purchase in their favorite
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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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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation released its third quarter Housing Market Outlook this morning which is predicting solid growth for Saskatchewan through 2008. “After the poorest report in Canada last year, economic growth in Saskatchewan
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While the Saskatoon real estate market “booms” and the net worth of Saskatoon property owners grows, something else is growing, and it’s not so pretty. It’s the growing gap between the rich and the poor. In a front page story from
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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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This is not exactly important real estate news but I couldn’t resist writing a small snip about this story. It seems that the popular A&E reality program, “Flip This House” has run a number of episodes which amount to nothing more
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Dwight Percy has an interesting article in the business section of today’s Star Phoenix titled, “ High local housing prices are still below average ” which is definitely worth reading. Percy points out that while Saskatoon house prices
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