Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation released their "Housing Now" press release today that talks about housing starts and the overall economic climate in Edmonton today. Most of the stuff in the report is stuff that we've already talked about here, but it is an interesting read – you can view it here: http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/odpub/esub/64171/64171_2009_M04.pdf
A few of [...]
Edmonton Housing Starts Still Slow
by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 30. Apr, 2009 in Edmonton Real Estate Market, Investing in Alberta Real Estate, Tips for Home Buyers
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by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 28. Apr, 2009 in Around Edmonton, Edmonton Real Estate Market, Real Estate Video
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by Sheldon on 27. Apr, 2009 in Tips for Home Buyers, Tips for Home Owners
In the last addition of the Real Estate Marketing Magazine a circuit speaker talked about the 90/10 principle – 90% of the business is done by 10% of the Realtors. He was trying to de-bunk the 90-10 as a myth. If my memory serves, almost two thirds of the members of the REALTORS Association of Edmonton did [...]
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update
by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 24. Apr, 2009 in Edmonton Real Estate Market, Investing in Alberta Real Estate, 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: 486 (418, 474, 423)# Sales: 300 (252, 203, 271)Ratio: 62% (60%, 43%, 64%)# Price changes: 276 (196, 252, 253)# Expired Listings: 134 (138, 110, 348)# Withdrawn/terminated/etc. listings: 71 (16, 36, 40)Net loss/gain in [...]
Edmonton Realtors Stickin’ In There
by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 22. Apr, 2009 in Edmonton Real Estate Market
A few times on the blog we eluded to the idea that when the real estate association fees were due in March we would see a large drop off in the numbers of Realtors in Edmonton. Well, we were wrong…Turns out the membership has only dropped slightly from 3139 at the end of March to [...]
Attention Condo Boards and Management Companies: A Simple tip to Save Time, Money & Paper
by Sheldon on 21. Apr, 2009 in Canadian Real Estate, Tips for Home Buyers, Tips for Home Owners
Thousands of times this year the following scene will be replayed. An owner of a condo in Edmonton will decide to sell and list their property on MLS. Once they get the buyer they pretty much have it made right? Wrong. Usually the buyer will have conditions in their offer and one of those [...]
Has the Edmonton Real Estate market bottomed out?
by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 20. Apr, 2009 in Edmonton Real Estate Market, Investing in Alberta Real Estate, Real Estate Video, Tips for Home Buyers
Some are calling for the end of falling prices in the Edmonton real estate market.
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update
by Sheldon Johnston and Sara MacLennan on 17. Apr, 2009 in Alberta's Economy, Edmonton Real Estate Market, Investing in Alberta Real Estate, 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: 418 (474, 423, 412)# Sales: 252 (203, 271, 256)Ratio: 60% (43%, 64%, 62%)# Price changes: 196 (252, 253, 264)# Expired Listings: 138 (110, 348, 89)# Withdrawn/terminated/etc. listings: 16 (36, 40, 20)Net loss/gain in [...]
Multiple Offers – What would you do?
by Sheldon on 16. Apr, 2009 in Investing in Alberta Real Estate, Tips for Home Buyers, Tips for Home Owners
The set up
You're the agent for the seller and you’ve priced the property aggressively. You’ve been on the market a few days and Bert from Bert’s buyers reps gives you a call that he has an offer on your property and would like to get it presented to the seller. Not long after the [...]
The Terminator
by Sheldon on 15. Apr, 2009 in Uncategorized
When a listing disappears from Realtor.ca, it is hard to know if it will be "asta la vista, baby," or "I'll be back."
In real estate there are a number of different categories when a listing comes off the market - what happens when listings on MLS aren’t Active or Sold?
Pending – This means the seller has accepted an [...]
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