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This past week delivered more of the same to the Saskatoon real estate market as new residential listings continued to be offered up at a pace we haven’t seen in quite some time. In total, 265 new listings were entered to the Saskatoon MLS system
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Residential sales in the Saskatoon real estate market resumed a fairly modest pace this week with 92 single-family homes (houses) and condos reported sold to the Saskatoon MLS, down from 117 last week , even further off of the 123 that sold during the
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Statistics Canada released its Gross Domestic Product numbers yesterday which show that the Saskatchewan economy underperformed on expectations and forecasts of RBC Economics , CMHC , and the Conference Board of Canada , all of which estimated higher
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Saskatoon ranks 17th out of 154 Canadian communities that are rated in the third annual Canadian Business , “Canada’s Best Places to Live” list. This particular report weighs a number of factors including house prices, incomes, crime
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Following a few weeks of unseasonably sluggish home sales, the Saskatoon real estate market took an upward bounce this week with 117 condominiums and single-family home sales reported as having firmed up. That compares to just 70 last week , and it even
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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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On April 15 when I posted my “ Closer Look at the Saskatoon Real Estate Statistics for March, 2008 ,” I expressed some concern about the accuracy of the numbers and even included a disclaimer warning that there may be some accuracy issues.
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The inventory of Saskatoon real estate listings grew again for the sixth consecutive week moving from 619 last week to 668 by the close of business on Friday. 167 properties were offered for sale including 120 single-family homes (houses) and 41 condominiums.
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This from today’s Globe and Mail. It's time for Canadians to bid the housing boom farewell as data for the first quarter of the year, released Thursday by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), showed a 13 per cent tumble in existing home
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My mid-month “ closer look ” pretty much always follows SRAR’s month end stats , but then SRAR pretty much always releases month end stats at the end of the month. Due to issues that arise from the way that SRAR normally reports the
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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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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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A total of 215 new residential property listings pushed Saskatoon real estate inventory to its highest level since October 2005 this past week. Active listings in the residential category now sit at 619 properties, up from 543 last week , and substantially
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Saskatoon real estate listing inventories grew again for the fourth consecutive week, this time rather substantially, as 197 residential listings were added to the Multiple Listing Service database. At the close of a week that saw the greatest number
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Canada’s real estate markets remain on stable footing according to a Royal LePage House Price Survey released this week. “With the notable exception of a handful of small western cities, the country has returned to an environment characterized
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