Archives for May, 2011
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 29, 2011
The final week of May proved to be a bit of a bust, at least when compared against the first three. Saskatoon real estate agents reported just seventy house and condo sales to the local MLS®, down twenty-eight units from the previous week and falling short of last year’s numbers by three. Still, last week’s [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 22, 2011
Happy May long weekend! Saskatoon home sales continued to show year-over-year gains for the month as the third week of May came to a close. A total of ninety-eight single-family home and condominium sales firmed up this week for a weekly gain of fourteen units and an annual uptick of sixteen. Following an unseasonably slow [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 22, 2011
CREA economist Gregory Klump reports on MLS® sales and listings for the Canadian real estate market for April, 2011. More from CREA’s release. The number of newly listed homes edged up 1.3 per cent in April from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis, but remained well below levels in January and February, when [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 14, 2011
Saskatoon real estate sales had another reasonably strong week with a total of eighty-four firm house and condo sales being reported to the local MLS®, a drop of seven compared against last week’s numbers and off just one from the same period a year ago. Following on the heels of a week that saw a [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 8, 2011
It was another spring like week for Saskatoon real estate sales as conditions were fulfilled and removed on ninety-one home sales. Unit sales declined three from last week but finished higher than the same week last year by eight. After showing signs of softening over two consecutive weeks, new listings came to the market in [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 5, 2011
A new report from the Conference Board of Canada says Saskatoon will lead Canada in economic growth in 2011 and each year after that until 2015. Learn more here.
Posted by Mike Derbowka on May 4, 2011
I had a phone call today from a client who is looking to purchase a house in Saskatoon. Previous to my discussion with him, he had phoned his mortgage broker to ask how much he should have saved up for lawyer costs in terms of closing his transaction. The banker had told him 1.5% was [...]
Posted by Norm Fisher on May 2, 2011
The Saskatoon Region Association of REALTORS® (SRAR) released the residential real estate statistics for April, 2011 today, accompanied by this release. April’s residential real estate sale market softened somewhat with 343 homes selling compared to the 369 homes that sold in April of 2010. The greatest sales activity occurred in the $300,000 to $350,000 price [...]