Archive : June 2007

Angling adventure

In the eastern sky, forks of lightning ominously streaked through water-saturated black clouds that threatened at any time to release their heavy burden downward to earth.  It was an inauspicious beginning to what was slated to ...

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Home sales major contributor to national economy

A new report shows that the real estate industry makes a significant contribution to the economic well-being of Canada. The resale housing industry in Canada generated more than 158,000 jobs and an average of $15.3 billion annually f...

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There’s real value in using REALTORS®

The evidence needed to show the value of using a REALTOR® came in May when new monthly milestones were reached. For the first time in the WinnipegREALTORS® Association’s 104-year history,  monthly MLS® sales br...

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Not the answer

Earlier this week Jay Melosh, a professor of planetary science at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona with links to NASA, was in Waterloo, Ontario, to deliver a public lecture on how the reign of dinosaurs ended abruptl...

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Monthly MLS® sales continue to shatter records

May has been a record-shattering month for MLS® sales and dollar volume. The spike in MLS® activity even has WinnipegREALTORS® Association president Wes Schollenberg contemplating $2 billion in total sales for the first t...

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Tour downtown condos and attractions

Starting this weekend, Winnipeggers will have a chance to sample the urban lifestyle in a fun new way every Sunday in June from noon to 4 p.m.  The Downtown Living Open House, sponsored by the WinnipegREALTORS® Association, ...

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Building a community

Literally hundreds of members of the WinnipegREALTORS® Association are volunteers within the community. They could be the referee at your son’s peewee hockey game or daughter’s ringette game, someone who rubs shoulders with ...

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Home-buying trend affecting nation’s rental market

Many Canadian households have moved from renting to homeownership during the past two decades, according to a new report from Statistics Canada. Almost 70 per cent of Canadians were homeowners in 2005, a significant increase compared to abo...

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