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- Horse rides, skating and kids carnival and the Legislature
- Drum and tambourine building sessions, face painting and airbrushed tattoos, a magician, and tours of the various gardens at the Muttart.
- Edmonton Valley Zoo is celebrating Polar Bears International Awareness Day with a lecture from U of A polar bear researcher Dr. Ian Stirling. There’s also an indoor petting zoo, face painting, a scavenger hunt, and polar bear crafts. At 2 p.m., zookeepers will walk two female Arctic wolves around the zoo.
- Metropolis winter festival at Churchill Square (last day), which will open at noon and wrap up at 9 p.m. Roving street performers, free skate rentals, hay rides, face painting, ice sculptors, and a chance to make your own fire-cooked bannock.
- Stanley A. Milner Library will screening Shrek at 2pm, and admission to the nearby Art Gallery of Alberta is free.
- Admission is also free at all other of Alberta’s museums and historic sites. At the Royal Alberta Museum, there will two performances of Project: Whooping Crane, a Green Fools Theatre production which combines puppetry, music and drama. Show times are 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
- At Lacombe Lake Park in St. Albert, there will horse-drawn wagon rides, skating, milk jug curling, and Special Olympics Canada Winter Games on-site from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. At the same time, Heritage Lakes Community Association will also host sleigh rides, human dog sleds, along with free hot chocolate.
- Londonderry Mall is hosting a paper airplane battle, with construction at noon and competition two hours later.
- Tuque tosses and skate races are scheduled for the Silver Skate Festival at Hawrelak Park, where there will also be demonstrations in orienteering, dog sledding, figure skating, and sledge hockey, as well as plenty of other family activities.
- Canada’s population grew by 5.9% 2006 and 2011, slightly faster than the 5.4% increase in the five-year period before that. Statistics Canada attributed the increase in growth rate to slightly higher fertility and to an increase in the number of non-permanent residents and immigrants.
- Ontario remains by far Canada’s most populous province with 38.4% of all Canadians.
- The number of private dwellings grew by 7.1%, to 13.3 million, compared to 12.4 million five years earlier.
- The 33.5 million people counted in May, 2011 is almost twice as many as in 1961 and 10 times the 1861 census.
- Canada is the smallest G8 nation but the fastest growing. The United States is the biggest, with 311.2 million citizens, followed by Russia with 142.9 million residents.
- Canada’s population growth for the last decade has been driven mainly by migration since natural increase — the difference between births and deaths — now only account for one-third of the growth.
Shit Edmontonians Say
February 20th, 2012This video can only truly be appreciated by an Edmontonian. Hilarious!
Family Day Events Around Edmonton
February 19th, 2012
Looking for something to do with your family on family day? There's lots to choose from in Edmonton this weekend:
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update – Feb. 17/12
February 17th, 2012
Edmonton Real Estate Market 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: 450 (465, 403, 358)
# Sales: 202 (193, 189, 177)
Ratio: 45% (42%, 47%, 49%)
# Price changes: 163 (147, 138, 119)
# Expired/Off Market Listings: 119 (89, 237, 122)
Net loss/gain in listings this week: 129 (183, -23)
Active single family home listings: 2207 (2123, 2008, 2020)
Active condo listings: 1388 (1317, 1236, 1237)
Homes 4-week running average: $368k ($366k, $359k, $358k)
Condos 4-week running average: $219k ($213k, $210k, $208k)
The REALTORS® Association of Edmonton is reporting 639 sales so far this month for the Greater Edmonton Area, which should put us around 1150 sales at the end of the month (right in line with last year). Our agents are very busy showing properties, but our clients are finding the good ones sell very quickly, and often with multiple offers. There is no particular price range or area that is performing exceptionally well (except for newer half duplexes in the south west), it just seems that well priced and well presented properties are gobbled up quickly. It's not like inventory is low, but there does seem to be a lack of really good properties for sale at the moment, so when something really good comes up it goes quickly. We think if there were more good properties on the market, sales would be higher.
Edmonton real estate prices
Edmonton real estate listings and sales
RRSP Tip
February 15th, 2012This short and sweet video from the Globe and Mail talks about the benefits of paying down your mortgage instead of buying RRSPs.
Mortgages and RRSPs
Something to think about!
The hare and the tortoise: Which do you prefer?
February 15th, 2012Take our poll on Facebook - Alberta has seen its fair share of real estate markets - do you like a slow and steady market or boom and bust? Which do you prefer?
Slow and Steady or Boom and Bust?
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update – Feb. 10/12
February 10th, 2012
Edmonton Real Estate Market 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: 465 (403, 358, 383)
# Sales: 193 (189, 177, 139)
Ratio: 42% (47%, 49%, 36%)
# Price changes: 147 (138, 119, 111)
# Expired/Off Market Listings: 89 (237, 122, 160)
Net loss/gain in listings this week: 183 (-23, 59, 84)
Active single family home listings: 2123 (2008, 2020, 2013)
Active condo listings: 1317 (1236, 1237, 1182)
Homes 4-week running average: $366k ($359k, $358k, $353k)
Condos 4-week running average: $213k ($210k, $208k, $211k)
The REALTORS® Association of Edmonton is reporting 315 sales so far this month for the Greater Edmonton area, which should put us around 1000 sales for February (below average).
Edmonton real estate prices
Edmonton real estate listings and sales
Have a great weekend!
Canadians Go West in 2011 Census Results
February 8th, 2012
Flickr Photo by raelmyfi
Canada was the fastest growing country in the G8, Alberta was the fastest growing province in Canada, and Edmonton and Calgary were the fastest growing major cities when their growth was measured in the 2011 census, growing at an even faster rate than in the previous five year period.
The Capital Region — including municipalities such as Beaumont, Spruce Grove and Fort Saskatchewan — grew from just over a million people in 2006 to more than 1.16 million people in 2011. That’s a 12% increase in the five-year span measured by the national population count. Most of this growth is occurring in new suburbs and bedrooms communities.
For the first time in Canada's history, the provinces west of Ontario have a higher population than the provinces east of Ontario.
Highlights from the report so far include:
Additional demographic information from the census will be released by statistics Canada throughout the year.
Meanwhile, Edmonton area home builders had a busy month in January, according to a report released by CMHC today. Housing starts increased in January to 578 units compared with 363 in January 2011. The increase occurred in both
the single-detached and multi-family sectors.
Single-detached starts in January increased by 53% year-over-year to 314 units, up from 205 in January 2011, while multi-family starts increased by 67% to 264 units.
“The gain represents a strong start to the year for Edmonton’s single-detached builders,” noted Richard Goatcher, CMHC’s Senior Market Analyst for Edmonton. “However, it should be noted that last year’s starts were hampered by heavy snow and cold temperatures which delayed
production across the Capital region,” he added.
Which do you prefer?
February 6th, 2012
Stained Or White?
Take our poll on Facebook - white cabinets never go out of style, but most new homes in Edmonton seem to have stained cabinets. Which do you prefer?
1 Million Page Views
February 3rd, 2012
I was happily surprised when I checked our analytics yesterday. Our Edmonton MLS® Search web site - edmontonrealestate.pro - reached a new milestone and got over 1 million page views in the month of January! Thanks to everyone who uses the site to find real estate in Edmonton! We will continue to improve the site and add new features as long as people keep using it. With the average time on site over ten minutes, people clearly like it. Our clients enjoy extra traffic to their listings, since our listings are featured at the top of the results whenever they are included in a user's search. That's the beauty of the Internet - a small company that focuses on quality and details can kick the big guy's butts.
Edmonton Real Estate Market Weekly Update – Feb. 3/12
February 3rd, 2012
EdmontonRealEstateMarketUpdate
Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week’s numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:
New listings: 403 (358, 383, 438)
# Sales: 189 (177, 139, 109)
Ratio: 47% (49%, 36%, 25%)
# Price changes: 138 (119, 111, 125)
# Expired/Off Market Listings: 237 (122, 160, 143)
Net loss/gain in listings this week: -23 (59, 84, 186)
Active single family home listings: 2008 (2020, 2013, 1972)
Active condo listings: 1236 (1237, 1182, 1139)
Homes 4-week running average: $359k ($358k, $353k, $357k)
Condos 4-week running average: $210k ($208k, $211k, $220k)
Edmonton real estate listings and sales
Edmonton real estate listings and sales
Had enough stats this week so I'll leave it at that. Enjoy the weekend!
