Better Building by Canadian Funding Corp.

The 20% drop attributed to decline in multiple starts,
especially in Toronto’s condominium segment.
The Canadian construction industry may have been the engine of economic growth for much of this decade, but recent figures show that it hasn’t been firing on all cylinders. Canadian housing starts cratered by a much-greater-than-expected 19.9 per cent to 117,400 annualized units [...]

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Resale housing activity in Canada in February 2009 was up from seasonally adjusted levels the previous month, according to statistics released by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).
A total of 28,669 homes traded hands via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) nationally in February 2009 on a seasonally adjusted basis. This is 8.6 per cent above [...]

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Spring has arrived and with it’s arrival the Real Estate market has seen a lot of activity in the Richmond, BC real estate market. From my personal experience, over the last few weeks there have been many signs of an active market.
* There have been several instances where I have been [...]

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