Archive | July, 2009

Title Insurance – What is it and how does it help me?

This is the second in a series of three articles written by guest author Stan Galbraith of Galbraith Law. The series includes Real Property Reports, Title Insurance, and Real Property Reports vs Title Insurance. Within the last 10 years, a new insurance product has arrived in Alberta.  It is commonly referred to as title insurance.What is title insurance? This product was never available [...]

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Coldwell Banker Johnston Welcomes a New Team Member

In our continuing commitment to offer the highest expertise and the best marketing in the real in the Edmonton real estate market, we are pleased to welcome Sarah MacDonald to our team as our Client Services Coordinator. Sarah is not to be confused with Sara no H MacLennan our marketing director – a big challenge around our office. Anyway, Sarah’s job with [...]

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Storm Brewing

On Saturday evening we spotted two tornadoes near Red Deer.  That’s right this is not an Edmonton real estate story.  Saturday night we were driving to Calgary and all around us the clouds seem to have little wisps dropping from them.  CTV news used some of our video! Just thought we'd share it with you. [...]

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A Sellers Market in Edmonton in June

A Sellers Market in Edmonton in June

No sooner had I pushed the publish button on my "weekly update" this afternoon did I receive notification from the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton that the monthly numbers were ready! I don't think they're trying to ruin my vacation but they are certainly giving me lots to do! Just kidding…. They obviously worked hard to correct the problem and release [...]

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Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update

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: 453 (448, 483, 536)# Sales: 329 (421, 441, 359)Ratio: 73% (94%, 91%, 68%)# Price changes: 189 (203, 233, 246)# Expired Listings: 308 (69, 102, 112)# Withdrawn/terminated/etc. listings: 32 (34, 46, 102)Net loss/gain in listings this week: -216 (-76, [...]

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Record Breaking Home Sales in Edmonton

Record Breaking Home Sales in Edmonton

Happy Canada Day! I hope everyone is enjoying the day as much as we are. I was planning on doing a full report on the Edmonton residential MLS® sales in June, however, it appears as though the REALTORS® Association computer hit some sort of a glitch, and did not run the daily stats last night. From what I can see, the numbers [...]

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