When the Winnipeg Real Estate Board (now WinnipegREALTORS®) celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003, it commissioned professor David Burley of the University of Winnipeg to do a history of Winnipeg housing in the 20th-century.
T...
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by Bruce Cherney
In the fall of 1904, the Winnipeg Board of Trade was confident that insurance rates would soon decrease throughout the city. The belief that better terms were on the way was enthusiastically welcomed by local entrepr...
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As a break from the rigors of a Manitoba winter, a new provincial holiday on the third Monday in February is long overdue.
As Labour and Immigration Minister Nancy Allan said, “A holiday in February between New Year&rsquo...
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MLS® resale housing activity in Canada’s major markets declined from previous record levels but remained strong in August, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.
“There were adjustments to mortgage r...
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by Janet Clarkson
Just as the number of house sales and selling prices climb, so is enrollment in the salespersons’ licensing education program.
Since the Manitoba Real Estate Association introduced the new salespe...
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by Bruce Cherney
High above Main Street, steel workers thought that without warning the heavens had opened up on what began as a sun-filled day. To their amazement, out of the clear sky, a mysterious onslaught of windswept spray forc...
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It be said one of the first casualties of the War in Iraq continues to be history. One writer has gone so far as to say the war had been the “death of history.”
It’s a strong assertion by Robert Fisk, who wrote an a...
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The continuing trend of rising home values is not sustainable over the long-term, however, the end to escalating prices will be a soft landing, according to the latest Real Estate Trends released by Scotia Economics.
“The funda...
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Coverage on the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage in the United States has been extensive in recent months.
Headlines, such as From Wobble to Crunch and Washington Primed to Halt Credit Crunch, have certainly grabbed readers&r...
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by Bruce Cherney
In The Wealth of Nations, the famous 18th-century philosopher and economist, Adam Smith, said that “wealth consists of money ... when we have money we can more readily obtain whatever else we have occasion for ...
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