Archive : March 2010

Painful deficits

Manitobans woke up last Wednesday morning to the news that provincial budgets will be awash in a sea of red ink for at least the next five years. It’s a novelty in Manitoba as successive governments — Conservative and NDP &mdash...

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Website about land transfer tax

  WinnipegREALTORS® noticed a soft first-time buyers market last year in comparison to other Canadian major markets. Its documentation showed how local sales in the under $300,000 market fared poorer than in other markets such a...

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Green with envy

For one day a year, Manitobans of all backgrounds can attire themselves in green and proclaim  they are “friends of the Irish.” At the same time, many in this province can claim direct descent from Emerald Isle immigrants. ...

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MHBA’s Home Expressions Show

A sign that spring has arrived is  the annual Manitoba Home Builders’ Home Expressions Show, running this year until Sunday, March 21.  Each year over 20,000 people visit Home Expressions. All three floors of the Conv...

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Annual Teddy Awards

Open the mailbox or gaze at the floor under the mail slot, and there they are — taunting us to take a peek. At one time or another, we have all received the insidious flyers as well as some other piece of so-called “important&rd...

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A REALTOR®’s edge is code of ethics

It is important to appreciate that REALTORS® provide buyers and sellers with the professional advice they need to undertake one of the most important financial transactions of their lifetime.  As with other professions, REAL...

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