Archives for June, 2009
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 27, 2009
Saskatoon real estate sales showed continued strength moving into the first week of summer with one hundred and ten unit sales, higher than last week by twelve homes, and crushing sales generating during the same week last year when just sixty-five properties traded hands. We’ve seen just one stronger sales week this year, and one [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 25, 2009
If you’re a real estate geek with an iPhone or an Android device you’re going to flip over this terrific little application. It uses your device’s GPS to position you on a map and it plots all Saskatoon MLS listings within one kilometer of your current location. Have you ever driven by a real estate [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 20, 2009
Following a week of softer unit sales, Saskatoon real estate activity picked up the pace and recorded another week of closed deals that ranked among the best we’ve seen in the past eighteen months. A total of ninety-eight homes were reported sold to the Saskatoon MLS system, an increase from seventy-three last week, and up [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 20, 2009
According to a story in today’s Star Phoenix, Lake Placid Developments is seeking a one-year extension on the current deadline to complete the excavation of the building site for its proposed $200 million River Landing development. In a letter to the city, the developer requested an extension to June 30, 2010. City manager, Murray Totland [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 16, 2009
According to the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, “Saskatoon city council’s executive committee approved a new mortgage support program on Tuesday to help low- and moderate-income people get into the housing market. “Under the program, which will replace the home start affordable housing initiative, people with a household income of $52,000 or less will be given a [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 15, 2009
This post makes the “just for fun” category for the featured video’s surprise ending. If you start the video, please see it through to the end. By way of Brendan King’s Twitter stream. As a licensed Asian, I found this particular misunderstanding quite amusing and so did the other Asians in my office, but discriminatory [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 13, 2009
Sales of houses and condos slowed this week as Saskatoon real estate agents reported just seventy-three units sold, down from ninety-four last week, and ninety-three for the same week last year. The softer sales week brought an end to a four-week winning streak of year-over-year gains in homes reported sold. New listing activity also fell [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 12, 2009
The Saskatoon Region Association of Realtors recently reported May results for the entire residential category of Saskatoon real estate, which includes single-family homes, condominiums, semi-detached properties, duplexes, mobile homes and vacant lots. Unit sales totaled 372 properties across all of these property types, at an average selling price of $276,091. Let’s have a look at [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 6, 2009
Saskatoon real estate agents reported ninety-four firm sales of houses and condos this week, a decline of nineteen properties compared to the last week of May, but still sharply higher than the same week last year when just sixty-seven Saskatoon homes were reported sold. Sales were up on a year-over-year basis for the fourth consecutive [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on June 1, 2009
The Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® (SRAR) released the residential real estate statistics for May 2009 today, accompanied by this release. Residential home sales remained steady in the month of May. Saskatoon REALTORS® sold 372 homes in the month of May that number up 2% from May 2008 when 363 homes were sold. Year to [...]