Among the city-issued press release this week was one with the headline Happy Birthday Portage and Main!
The gist of the release was that Winnipeg’s most famous corner of Portage and Main had turned 150 ye...
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by Toby Welch
Numerous surveys have shown that many home buyers and sellers are unaware of the true value a REALTOR® provides. On the flip side, many REALTORS® assume that their hard work and expertise a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Under the headline, Million for Manitoba League Not Regarded with Favor in the United States, the April 3, 1912, Manitoba Free Press reported the league was creating “considerable...
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Five home sales of over $1 million each, helped propel May’s dollar volume level over $400 million, which is the first time in the 109-year history WinnipegREALTORS® that such a high total for a single month has been reached.
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Summer vacation thoughts dominate the mind. It's harder to concentrate at work or at school. Ahh, it must be June.
A teacher said it best. She endured a tough day of grading tests, checking attendance ...
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English owes its immense vocabulary to its wholesale adoption of words and phrases from other tongues, a practice reaching back into antiquity and continuing to this day.
We’ve lifted Old Norse words like ...
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I stood watching in utter astonishment. Flying beside me as I was about to get into my van was a crow, wings flapping wildly just a metre above the ground. But it wasn’t the crow that really caught my attention. It was...
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It was an interesting week for a group of Canadian REALTORS® and government relations staff, when they participated in back-to-back political action events in Ottawa and in Washington, D.C. Both provided an opportunity to see first-hand...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
According to historian W.L. Morton, “1912 was the climax of the great boom in Manitoba.” The economic, real estate and immigration boom that had lasted for over 40 years had actually begun ...
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The first quarter of 2012 brought little change to Manitoba’s housing affordability, according to the latest Housing Trends and Affordability Report issued by RBC Economics.
“It was steady as she goes in the f...
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