Honouring Winnipeggers
“It should be a no-brainer. What we’re seeking doesn’t cost anything.”
Indeed, Bill Burns, chair of the Winnipeg Real Estate Board-established Citizens Hall of Fame, is absolutely right.
It is a no-brai...
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Archive : September 2006
Two new inductees into Winnipeg Citizens Hall of Fame
There is absolutely nothing like it anywhere in Canada.
Toronto may have its Hollywood North version of a Canadian Walk of Fame but, like the original model found in Los Angleles, it is star-struck, primarily honouring entertainers.&...
NHLers invest in local rental market
It is encouraging to hear good news about another side of the real estate market that has been clearly underrepresented. To put it mildly, new apartment construction has been scarce in Winnipeg.
Because the vacancy rate is hove...
Two votes, two different results — Peguis land compensation still unresolved
by Bruce Cherney
Ninety-nine years ago the claim was that not enough members of the St. Peter’s reserve were on hand to make a legitimate vote possible to allow a land surrender. Today, the claim is that not enough member...
U.S. market different
Ominous news about the American housing market is coming out of the United States. In fact, the news is so dire that American market observers and economists are saying the steep decline in both new and existing home sales is the forerunner...
Mortgage rates, high employment stimulate new home investment
Residential construction investment totalled $20.8 billion in the second quarter, up 8.5 per cent from the $19.2 billion invested in the second quarter of 2005, according to Statistics Canada.
The Canadian government agency sai...
“Terrorists” threaten Manitoba — “collecting on our border for . . . plunder, robbery and murder”
by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In September 1871, rumours were spreading in Winnnipeg and St. Paul, Minnesota, that the Fenians were preparing to launch a raid into Manitoba. The rumours of an attack by the “murderous ban...
The value of using a REALTOR®
Not all real estate practioners are created equal. Only members of the Canadian Real Estate Association, an association comprised of over 84,000 real estate professionals from coast to coast, can call themselves REALTORS®.
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Roads and elections
Opening up the government purse strings is an age-old signal of an impending election. Within Manitoba, it is accepted convention that new spending announcements herald the commence by the ruling government of its re-election bid.
Fo...
REALTORS® to discuss the “big issues” at Winnipeg meeting
Some pretty big ideas are invariably discussed when the nation’s 15 largest real estate boards meet.
“We swap all kinds of ideas,” said
Geoff McCullough, the executive-director of the Winnipeg Real Esta...