Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer announced an expansion of the Lighthouse that will add 65 affordable housing units by December of 2011, essentially doubling the capacity of the supported living facility. The $11.5 million dollar addition will be funded with an investment from the federal and provincial Affordable Housing Trust.
Once completed, the facility will offer [...]
In a 9-2 vote last night, city council agreed to sell Parcel Y in Saskatoon’s Central Business District to Lake Placid for development of their proposed River Landing Village.
According to a story on the Star Phoenix website, “An agreement is now in place to develop the city’s most coveted piece of riverfront land with a [...]
The North Park “graffiti wall” takes on a new life as artists work at a theme change from Where the Wild Things Are to “Old Town Cartoons.” Every other year, the home owner who erected the privately owned concrete sound attenuation wall at Warman Road and Empress invites select graffiti artists to ply their skills [...]
Compared to last week, Saskatoon real estate sales slipped lower by six units to close the week with seventy-two firm detached house and condominium sales. This week’s activity was about on par with the same week in 2009 when seventy-three homes traded.
New listings fell a little harder than sales and may have even signaled that [...]
The Saskatoon Heath Region has selected the Royal University Hospital (RUH) to house the new Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan following the recommendation of a site validation committee appointed to review four location options.
The committee explains the rationale that led to a unanimous recommendation in a YouTube video here.
The Royal University Hospital is located on the [...]
A Class-A office vacancy rate of less than 1 percent is driving developers to continue expanding the inventory in downtown Saskatoon.
Discovery Plaza is Saskatoon’s latest Class-A project. Completed in 2009 it brought more than 50,000 square feet to the market, all of which was quickly scooped up by BHP Billiton.
The redevelopment of the Capitol [...]
The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors recently reported May 2010 results for the entire residential category of Saskatoon real estate including single-family homes, condominiums, semi-detached properties, duplexes, mobile homes and vacant lots. Unit sales totaled 354 across all of these property types for a decline of roughly four percent compared to the previous May. The [...]
Saskatoon real estate sales inched higher this week as agents reported a total of seventy-eight detached house and condominium sales, up just five from last week but falling short of the number of homes traded during the same week last year when ninety-four houses and condos changed hands.
New listings of Saskatoon homes bounced back from [...]
The Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® (SRAR) released the residential real estate statistics for May of 2010 yesterday, accompanied by this release.
The residential housing market remained steady in the month of May. Unit sales were down 4% with 354 units selling compared to 369 in May of 2009. Year to date, unit sales are up [...]
“The future is written for Riversdale” and at least one Saskatoon business leader sees better times ahead.
Curtis Olson, of Shift Development Inc. recently purchased the old Joe’s Cycle Building at 220 20th Street West. When renovations are complete the building will become his company’s head office and a business hub for other “forward thinking businesses” [...]
A short week brought declines in both listings and sales to the Saskatoon real estate market. Local agents reported just seventy-three firm house and condo sales this week, a decline of nine from the previous week and well off of the one hundred and thirteen sales reported for the same week last year. With just [...]
