I'm sitting in the lounge of the Banff Springs hotel over looking the mountains after several full days of presentations, meetings and seminars and admitedly a few late nights out at the Banff Western Connection. A bi-annual conference of the Western Canadian Real Estate Boards. As I type this Sara is catching yet another session. She [...]
Archive | January, 2009
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update
Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week's numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:
New listings: 382 (446, 390, 380)# Sales: 167 (145, 111, 82)Ratio: 44% (33%, 28%, 22%)# Price changes: 233 (274, 242, 156)# Expired Listings: 106 (197, 215, 171)# Canceled/withdrawn/terminated listings: 19 (23, 21, 11)Net loss/gain [...]
First Time Buyer Online Seminar – Extra Spots Available
We have some extra space in tonight's first time buyer seminar – if you'd like to attend click the button below to register.
In the seminar we discuss:
Common mistakes buyers make
Mortgages and pre-approvals
The purchase contract including deposits, conditions, down payment, inspections, chattels
Costs – how much $$ and when?
Closing/Taking possession of your home
Question period
The number of attendees [...]
Canadians Optimistic About Housing Market: Royal Lepage
A recent poll commissioned by Royal LePage found that almost half (49%) of Canadians surveyed agree that the economic stimulus measures anticipated as part of tomorrow's Canadian federal budget announcement will have a positive impact on Canada's real estate market.
Based on the comments on this blog, I'm not sure if they included any Albertans [...]
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update – Sales Sluggish
Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week's numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:
New listings: 446 (390, 380, 94)# Sales: 145 (111, 82, 37)Ratio: 33% (28%, 22%, 39%)# Price changes: 274 (242, 156, 94)# Expired Listings: 197 (215, 171,851)# Canceled/withdrawn/terminated listings: 23 (21, 11, 13)Net loss/gain in [...]
War Profiteering!
You have to love the media. A while back I was contacted by Joanne Latimer with the Ottawa Citizen with regards divorce and real estate. The title of the resulting article was title "War profiteering." Catchy huh? The full article is found here:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Life/profiteering/1188577/story.html
We have talked about divorce before on our blog. The differences in perspective of the [...]
Our First Online Seminar a Success
Last night we held our first online seminar for first time home buyers and it was a great success. Aside from some issues with the audio (which we hope to fully resolve before next week's seminar) everything went off without a hitch. A big thanks to everyone who attended – there were a lot of [...]
Edmonton Condos: Old VS New
Every now and again on our blog a debate about new vs resale pops up. One such discussion relating to condos the other day made a light bulb in my head go off.
In the recent past there have been plenty of law suits from recently completed condo projects; the new owners of projects around Edmonton [...]
Feedback on Showings
We had lunch recently with two of our favourite REALTORS. Although they work out of a different brokerage we often work together on some problem solving issues. Both of them were noticing a disturbing trend… Some agents (who for whatever reason don’t want to do their job) are coaching their clients to call the buyer's agents directly [...]
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update
Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week's numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:
New listings: 390 (380, 94, 107)# Sales: 111 (82, 37, 65)Ratio: 28% (22%, 39%, 61%)# Price changes: 242 (156, 94, 75)# Expired Listings: 215 (171,851, 184)# Canceled/withdrawn/terminated listings: 21 (11, 13, 17)Net loss/gain in [...]
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Edmonton Home Sellers Stand Their Ground
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Market Value – Just How Much is That Home Worth?
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Prices Catch up to the Market
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Weekly Update on the Edmonton Real Estate Market
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