The Winnipeg real estate market didn’t let up in August with the Multiple Listing Service®’s year-long record-setting performance continuing.
By the first week of August, the Winnipeg Real Estate Board reported that M...
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Question: We bought an older home recently because it has character and many features that we were looking for. But, the attic needs to be insulated and we would like to do it this summer.
We had a quotation from an...
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by Bruce Cherney
In 1799, 416 of the 530 men working for the Hudson’s Bay Company came from the Orkneys, a collection of wind-swept islands forming a county of Scotland. The numbers employed by the HBC presents an extreme...
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All sorts of descriptive words have been tossed about to indicate Winnipeg has been enjoying a strong MLS® market over the past few years.
The one most often cited to the point of ad nausea is “hot.” This famili...
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At the start of the War on Iraqi, pundits had predicted we would soon be paying $1 a litre at the pump for gasoline. It took a while, but their prophecy came true. The quagmire in Iraqi led to the upward climb of the price toward $1 and sli...
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Local first-time buyers are better informed than in previous years and are
entering the resale market as a result of
low interest rates and a strong economy, according to a report recently released by Royal LePage ...
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When you close a faucet or an appliance shuts off, you may hear a banging noise known as a “water hammer.” This condition results from water moving under pressure suddenly being stopped by the closing of a faucet or valve...
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One of Winnipeg’s first heavy
industries was levelled by a timed series of controlled blasts last Sunday morning.
The implosion, which was carried out by Advanced Explosives Demolition Inc. working with Edmon...
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We often question in this column the reasons why any individual would consider selling a property privately.
It’s exposure of a house or building that creates activity, activity creates interest, interest creates competit...
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From June 1881 to mid-April 1882, Winnipeg was in the midst of one of the greatest land booms in North American history. It was a time when inflated property values brought on by widespread speculation caused otherwise rational people to ac...
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