Microsoft’s Bing moves mapping beyond simple directions and street views

February 14, 2010

One of the most exciting on-going developments in technology has to be mapping. Today, maps are moving to new levels that go far beyond simple directions and street views. Data that is location specific and appropriately tagged with geo-coordinates is flowing onto the web at a rapid pace finding its way onto maps, and changing [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: February 8-12 2010

February 13, 2010

February seems to have led us into a spring groove with sales and listing activity that appear quite normal, and avoid the extreme highs or lows that have been typical of our market for some time. Certainly, inventory is tight in some price ranges but demand is not unusually robust as it had been during [...]

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MLS rules and CREA will go before a Competition Tribunal

February 9, 2010
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Competition Commissioner Melanie Aitken has moved to bring the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) before a Competition Tribunal to seek a ruling that would force CREA to change MLS rules that she believes limit competition and harm consumers.
Following a lengthy investigation, the Competition Bureau announced in early November that they believed some of CREA’s rules [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: February 1-5 2010

February 7, 2010

Saskatoon real estate sales numbers continued to bring hope that spring is on its way as agents reported a total of sixty house and condo sales to the local MLS, a drop of just three properties from last week and a gain of eleven compared to the same week last year.
The new listings that were [...]

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A closer look at the Saskatoon real estate statistics for January 2010

February 5, 2010

The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors recently reported January 2010 results for the entire residential category of Saskatoon real estate that includes single-family homes, condominiums, semi-detached properties, duplexes, mobile homes and vacant lots. Unit sales totaled 179 properties across all of these property types, at an average selling price of $270,191. Let’s have a look [...]

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January homes sales soften slightly from same month last year: SRAR

February 1, 2010
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The Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® (SRAR) released the residential real estate statistics for January 2010 today, accompanied by this release.
Saskatoon REALTORS® assisted 179 homebuyers with the purchase of a home during January of 2010. This number was down 16% from January 2009 when 212 homes changed hands.

The average residential selling price was $270,191 down [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 25-29 2010

January 30, 2010

Following a few weeks of sales that were softer than expected and listing activity that appeared to be escalating both of those short-term trends reversed directions.
Saskatoon real estate agents reported a total of sixty-three single-family home and condominium sales to the local MLS system, an increase of eighteen properties over last week and a gain [...]

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Home renovation tax credit deadline looms but there may still be time for you

January 30, 2010
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The opportunity to take advantage of Canada’s Home Renovation Tax Credit expires at midnight on January 31. Obviously, the clock has run out when it comes to hiring a contractor but a quick trip to your favorite home renovation store might be in order if home improvements are part of your plan over the next [...]

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Housing affordability in Saskatoon shows modest year-over-year improvement

January 27, 2010

I can’t imagine that it would come as much of a surprise to anyone that the cost of home ownership in Saskatoon has skyrocketed in recent years. According to the recently released “6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey” owning a Saskatoon home priced at the median in Q3/2009 would have cost about 4.4 times [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 18-22 2010

January 23, 2010

Home sales in Saskatoon continued at a sluggish pace picking up just five units over the previous week to finish with forty-five houses and condos firmly sold, a drop of thirty-five percent compared to the same week last year when 69 homes found a sold sign. Unless the coming week produces sales that are double [...]

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Saskatoon real estate week in review: January 11-15 2010

January 16, 2010

Saskatoon home sales continued to move at a slower than expected pace this week as real estate agents reported firm sales on just forty single-family homes and condominiums. Forty sales marks a notable increase from last week when just twenty-five homes sold, but it leaves us down on a year-over-year basis for the second consecutive [...]

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