Tag Archives: Real Estate market outlook

It Starts At The Bottom

The Kick Real Estate May Need Do you know where the turnaround in the housing market starts? It starts at the bottom. I’m not referring to the slums or the starter housing market, but with the rush for rental property … Continue reading

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Buy Buy! Wait I meant Sell, No Wait Rent Instead!

I’m Frustrated With Real Estate This Real Estate market is killing me. Anyone else feel the same? Every time things start looking better in the world, up pops something to knock a table leg out and start the worldwide economy … Continue reading

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Breaking Down The Headlines

Calgary Real Estate/Business Headlines I haven’t really touched on any of the recent headlines many of you have been reading lately, so now is probably a great time to break down some of the stories for you. There are three … Continue reading

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Choosing Great Investment Areas

Choose a Great Investment Area Not Necessarily a Great Area We are carrying on with our series of the basics of investing in Real Estate this week and in this article, we move on to finding great investment areas to … Continue reading

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June Sales Jump

June Real Estate Market Update The June Real Estate market’s numbers are out and they are interesting to say the least. There are a couple statistics though, that seem to be drawing all the attention. The one getting the biggest … Continue reading

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Canada vs. Alberta vs. Your District

Canada Is One Vast Country If you haven’t noticed, we are one darn large country. With over 9 million square kilometres of land, almost 10 million square kilometres of total area and over 156 thousand miles of border we take … Continue reading

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Bing, Bang, Boom

Here is an assortment of topics and items that were on my mind and occurring around us last week. Bing – Interest Rates May Be Stable For a While! There are some rumours out there the Bank of Canada may … Continue reading

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Why The US Housing Market Won’t Correct Itself In the Near Future

US Housing Market Set To Suffer For Several Years The US Real Estate market seems to be a constant source of conversations lately. With the meltdown the market went through over the last several years, many areas of the US … Continue reading

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BoC Interest Rate Announcement

Bank of Canada Interest Rates Stay at 1% Sort of. On Tuesday, the Bank of Canada made its rate announcement and kept the rate unchanged at 1%. This is the rate at which banks borrow their money and base their … Continue reading

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Has Spring Finally Thawed? And Will The Real Estate Market Too?

Did everyone make it through the winter intact? Because I believe, it may actually be spring. It’s been a few weeks since we actually saw snow and the warmer temperatures have allowed the huge snow piles to all finally melt … Continue reading

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Politics, Housing & The Future

The Effect of Of Politics on the Housing Market The recent statistics for April’s Real Estate market for the Calgary region have just come out and surprisingly, the sales numbers have actually decreased compared to the year before. When you … Continue reading

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Landlord Challenges

What Are Your Landlord Challenges? $100 oil seems to be rather good for the economy. The economic activity created by this surge in prices is rippling through the province and is only in the early stages of generating increased job … Continue reading

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Jobs Up, Unemployment Down

Just a quick post today, lot’s going on! Some of the employment statistics just came out and the news is pretty optimistic for Alberta. Calgary saw the unemployment rate drop to 6.1% from 6.3% in February. Now the background story … Continue reading

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Peering Into The Real Estate Crystal Ball

Every now and then I like to do a little crystal ball forecasting by looking at the developments around us and then taking an educated guess as to where this will lead us. While it would be nice to have … Continue reading

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Secondary Suites – Petty Little People

Calgary Secondary Suite Issue There is a hot new topic being discussed in Calgary right now and its revolving around secondary suites. Our new mayor, Naheed Nenshi, is behind a proposal that would legalize secondary suites in almost every district … Continue reading

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