Saskatoon News Saskatoon Needs More Schools-Stonebridge Overview Part 2-focus on Stonebridge As a REALTOR(r) in Saskatoon I am often dealing with out of town buyers and one area that is important to many Saskatoon home buyers are the schools in the neighbourhood they are considering. According to an article in the Star Phoenix the public and Catholic school divisions new schools in […]
Saskatoon Needs More Schools-Hampton Village Overview Patience is a virtue but for many Saskatoon families patience is running out when it comes to the apparent lack of prioritizing for new schools in some of our newer neighbourhoods. We are seeing more about it in the news in this past week so it is definitely getting notice. While Hampton Village and Stonebridge […]
Saskatoon Real Estate News Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update-October The real estate market in Saskatoon for October continued to show strength with continued growth in sales. There have been a total of 16 homes for sale in Saskatoon that have sold for over a million dollars this year, double from 2011. Three of those homes for sale in Saskatoon over a million dollars sold […]
Saskatoon News Warman Is Saskatchewan’s 16 City! The town of Warman has grown to city status with 8000 residents. Warman is now officially Saskatchewan’s 16th city! The city manager, Ivan Gabrysha, stated that there were more housing starts by July than in all of 2011. There will be more than 250 new homes for sale in Warman this year and an industrial […]
Saskatchewan Has Too Many Jobs? Yes, you read the title correctly. Saskatchewan has too many jobs. According to articles printed on Yahoo Finance Canada  And yes, this is enviable to much of the world. Most areas are dealing with overwhelming debt and high unemployment while we are now struggling to find enough workers. Just 5-6 years ago our problem was reversed […]
Saskatoon Housing Starts Jump A recent article in the Star Phoenix has stated that housing starts have jumped in Saskatoon from August to September according to CMHC. Demand for new houses in Saskatoon continues to be supported by full time job creation, rising wages, and positive net migration according to Lai Sing Louie, CMHC’s regional economist for the Prairies. […]
Saskatoon Girls Win on Dragon’s Den I am so proud to blog about good friends of mine, Elysia and Natasha Vandenhurk, and their new business success. I won’t say new business venture as they have been working on this for several years and have now achieved National success. They have been all over the news this past week including an article […]
Construction Delays…Again It has been a bit of a disappointing week so far for construction news in Saskatoon. The first news concerns the Circle Drive project and completion. The $300M south bridge project was supposed to be open at the end of this month, one month behind the original date, but now it is unclear if it […]
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September Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update The Saskatoon real estate market has seen a moderate decline for the first time in 18 months for the number of sales in August and September. Current year to date sales are still up 6% compared to 2011. The homes that saw the largest decrease in sales have been the ones priced between $275,000 and […]
New Mortgage Regulations Impacting Saskatoon I work with some great mortgage brokers in Saskatoon and one of them just sent me and his core group of Saskatoon real estate agents a note yesterday to give us a heads up. The federal government is imposing some pretty big changes in the lending world when it comes to mortgages in Canada that […]
Saskatchewan Continues To Boom A recent article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix spoke about the large influx of people to our province in the past year. 2011 was the largest increase in population since 1921-nearly 100 years with an additional 22,000 plus people moving to Saskatchewan in the past year. Saskatchewan is not only attracting people from other provinces in […]
Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update for August I am a bit behind in writing this post due to a busy month however better late than never! The real estate market in Saskatoon may have slowed down a bit in August from the same month last year however year to date the number of real estate transactions in Saskatoon and area is up […]
Scams Scams and More Scams! I read an article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix that really made me shake my head-yet also made me realize that I could possibly be daft enough to fall for this particular scam with my love of wine and flowers. Unfortunately with all of these scams going on in this world we are going to […]
Warman To Be A City By Fall Can you believe that in 1964 the small town of Warman had homes that didn’t even have water? Some had wells, some had outhouses! It must be a bit of a shock to some of those longtime residents who have watched it grow from a small one horse town to the bustling community it is today. […]
Mine Delay-Will it Affect The Economy? A recent article in the Star Phoenix has left some with worry while others barely see it as a blip on their radar. Economic observers say it is too soon to say what will sort of effect will be felt with the news of mining company, Vale, putting its potash project near Kronau on hold. Keep in mind […]
Saskatoon Public Schools Report to the Community I was a bit surprised to have a big beautiful glossy colourful book waiting for me at my office “With Compliments of the Saskatoon Board of Education”. This lovely printed book I am sure is worth a pretty penny. I have to say, it would be much better next year if they emailed this instead […]
July Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update The July real estate market in Saskatoon saw less houses for sale in Saskatoon and area for buyers to choose from than in 2011. At the end of July 2012 there were 2729 houses for sale in Saskatoon and area vs 3085 in 2011. This does not mean the market is jumping up in price as […]
Saskatoon News HGTV Filming Today at One Of My Houses For Sale In Saskatoon Pretty exciting news that HGTV is filming at one of my Saskatoon houses for sale. They contacted me about a month ago regarding one of my listings, a beautiful walkout for sale in Willowgrove. They had a request from potential buyers who they enlisted to film the program Urban Suburban that this listing be one […]
Saskatoon Real Estate News Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update From June Better late than never is this post! The real estate market in Saskatoon has been busy which has put any blogging on the back burner for me. Our latest SRAR new release states that the number of properties for sale in Saskatoon is down only slightly yet the number of sales for the first six […]
Kari's Corner Ten Steps to Help Save The World? I recently got a copy of the Sunday Phoenix from the Saskatoon Star Phoenix and something caught my attention. After the recent Earth Summit in Brazil there are some suggestions for following a greener path. Thousands of delegates from around the world gathered and the message was daunting. It has been described that the world […]