The Edmonton Real Estate Blog

This month we decided to video our take on the Edmonton real estate market. We’ve included our thoughts on pricing, sales and inventory, which takes up about half the video below. The second half with the outtakes is really the best part.

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As you can see the blog has a bit of a different look and feel today. We have switched from Typepad to Wordpress. Over the next few days we’re going to have a lot of little changes with the design as we tweak things. We also have plugins to install (eg. the comments). Thanks for your patience while we fine [...]

 Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week's numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:   New listings:  477 (420,417, 454)# Sales: 255 (231,228, 200)Ratio: 53% (55%,55%, 44%)# Price changes: 159 (152,136, 146)# Expired/Off Market Listings: 66 (78,82, 57)Net loss/gain in listings this week: 66 (78,82, 57)Active listings for single family homes: 1731 (1641,1573, 1484)Active listings [...]

Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week's numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days:  
New listings:  477 (420,417, 454)# Sales: 255 (231,228, 200)Ratio: 53% (55%,55%, 44%)# Price changes: 159 (152,136, 146)# Expired/Off Market Listings: 66 (78,82, 57)Net loss/gain in listings this week: 66 (78,82, 57)Active listings for single family homes: 1731 (1641,1573, 1484)Active listings [...]

When something seems to good to be true it almost always is…. Found this article this morning about a rental scam in Edmonton. The scammer has taken an MLS® listing, and posted it as a rental on Craigslist for way less than similar homes are renting for. They set up a fake email account using the listing agent's name and [...]

A few years ago I had the good fortune to go to Vimy Ridge in what was perhaps one of the most stirring moments of my adult life.  There I was at the site of the famous Canadian battleground where my Grandfather had fought almost 9 decades earlier.  "He was here" I kept thinking, although it was certainly more quiet [...]