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Remax Press Release – Kelowna, BC (April 22, 2008) “While higher housing values and tight inventory levels have hampered home-buying activity so far this year, longer amortization periods and alternative housing types have offset the impact
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Selected a neighbourhood that you think you’ll be comfortable in isn’t easy, particularly if you’re trying to do it from half way across the country and you’re more or less unfamiliar with Saskatoon. I’d like to introduce
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The average selling price of Saskatoon homes took another substantial jump during the month of June passing the quarter million dollar mark for the first time ever. A total of 452 single-family homes and condominiums changed hands in June at an average
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March came in and out like an angry lion for those engaged in the Saskatoon real estate market with the average home price breaking the $200,000 mark for the first time in Saskatoon’s history. The average selling price of a Saskatoon home was $200,938,
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The Calvert government announced another election year carrot yesterday unveiling its plan to create the “largest free wireless Internet network in Canada.” The province will invest approximately $1.3 million dollars to install wireless transmitters
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They expected schools and playgrounds would eventually occupy the vacant space that sits at the center of Saskatoon’s Briarwood neighbourhood and some paid a premium for the opportunity to be close. Now that those plans have been scrapped by both
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You might say that residents of Saskatoon’s Nutana area have their “*** in a knot” over proposed plans to build a new sewer lift station in Rotary Park and who could blame them. The idea of dealing with raw sewage in your back yard isn’t
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Over the past 16 years, Patrick Wolfe quietly purchased a block of decrepit residential properties, one at a time, in the Pleasant Hill area of Saskatoon. A wiser investor may have wondered what the hell he was up to. Few would have ever thought that
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A Saskatoon couple got a huge surprise when they opened the back door of their Lawson Heights home on Saturday. Apparently, the family dog was barking continuously so Ed Anderson went to investigate and found a newborn baby girl wrapped in towels and
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Until now, it has been just rumour and speculation that something fairly big was about to happen for the Pleasant Hill area of Saskatoon. Now, it’s official. Mayor Don Atchison , Premier Lorne Calvert , and National Revenue Minister Carol Skelton
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A number of my clients have asked me how homes in their neighbourhoods have appreciated relative to the Saskatoon real estate market in general. The question sparked an idea for my neighbourhood profiles page . I have prepared and posted a graph for each
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I have completed my updates to the Saskatoon Real Estate Resource Centre’s Neighborhood Profile pages for 2006. Each neighbourhood page includes details on sales of houses and condominiums in the area including the low sale price, the high sale
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They say, “all good things must come to an end.” However sad, it’s true. On the front page of this morning’s Star Phoenix , an image of the smiling Mr. Hinitt appears with the headline, “ Bob Hinitt Hangs up His Hammer .”
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The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal , Friday, acquitted Saskatoon landlord Jack Grover of obstruction of justice and ordered his immediate release from prison. Grover was convicted of obstruction earlier this year and had served three months of the one year
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You might say that some residents of Briarwood are getting a little “tired” of the racket that seems to be prevalent in this prestigious area at all hours of the night. Topping the list of noisy culprits was the city of Saskatoon who thought
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