At the recent WinnipegREALTORS® forecast breakfast, Ken Jones, chair of the association’s Commercial Division, gave a recap of the 2013 commercial real estate market and spoke briefly on his predictions for 2014.
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The following are the kind of lines that provoke the response, “I wish I’d said that!”
Often, they’re tremendously profound and we feel envious of the author’s intellect, or they may be such...
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More than 1,300 Manitoba locations carry aboriginal names. Scores of others are English or French versions of native names. This pattern exists throughout Canada with thousands of native names found from east to west.
Canada is...
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New WinnipegREALTORS® president David Powell said the housing market will “see strong growth” this year, especially condominium sales, which were on an upswing by the end of last year.
“There is a great di...
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Did you know that the footprints and handprints in front of Grauman’s Theatre in Los Angeles started by accident?
Way back in 1927, Sid Grauman escorted Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge to see his new theatre, which was s...
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The role of the railways in naming Canadian communities cannot be downplayed. Steam-powered locomotives needed frequent stops so water and fuel could be on-loaded. Rail workers named many such places.
Then, as the west became s...
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The Olympics in Sochi, Russia, are following a typical pattern whenever the Games are held in what is virtually a dictatorship in the making. With Russian President Vladimir Putin leading the tightening of control over the Russian media and...
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What can we expect for the housing market in 2014? It may sound boring, but it should be more of the same. We are settling down into a pattern of steady sales and dollar volume growth based on continued immigration and population gains.&nbs...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
Nellie McClung told the audience prior to the beginning of the mock parliament at the Walker Theatre: “Remember, life on the stage here is reversed. Women have the vote while men do not” (M...
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by Todd Lewys
As the saying goes, the numbers never lie.
Going into 2014, the numbers relating to home sales — both resale and new — continue to look solid.
That said, those numbers w...
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