Distracted Driving Legislation (Bill 16)

In effect as of September 1, 2011!!!

Highlights:

Restricts drivers from:

using hand-held cell phones

texting or e-mailing

using electronic devices like laptop computers, video games, cameras, video entertainment displays and programming portable audio players (e.g., MP3 players)

entering information on GPS units

reading printed materials i ...

July Real Estate Happenings in Calgary AB

 

The past 30 days have seen listings slow down and sales drop from the previous month.  The following graph shows the relationship of listings to sales in our market to date. There has been an decrease in sales activity in July compared to June. Inventor continues to provide a generous supply of homes for buyers to choose from leaving us in a buyers’ ...

The Alberta resale housing market is expected to post the strongest gains this year with 7-per-cent growth, a partial recovery from the 13.6-per-cent decline it suffered in 2010. CTV reports market to stay flat in Canada http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110721/housing-prices-canada-report-110721/ .See full RBC report at http://www.rbc.com/economics/market/pdf/houseupdate.pdf 

CIR REALTY Wins International Marketing Award!

Media Release

Tuesday, March 22 2011

CIR REALTY Wins International Marketing Award

(Calgary, AB) – CIR REALTY is proud to announce it is the recipient of a Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® Marketing Award. The award was presented March 10 at the 2011 Leading Real Estate Companies of the World^® Conference at The Cosmopolitan of Las Veg ...

“Selling Your House? 5 Reasons To Do It NOW!” – By Steve Harney

Note – Even though this is an American article, there is still a lot of value you can take from it!

The conventional wisdom when selling a home has always been to wait until the ‘Spring Buying Season’. Over the years, that has seemed to make sense and is now accepted as a good strategy for those who want to sell their house and r ...

Long term 5 year versus 1 year fixed rates to be considered.

 The following graph, taken from the Bank of Canada’s Web site, which is all over the Internet, I think makes a compelling case for short term fixed rates over longer term rates. (Note: these rates are the posted rates, not including any discount.)

 As you can see, there are less periods since 1980 (1980 to 1982, 1987 to 1991, 1999 ...

Seven in 10 Albertans are looking for homes that won't need any fixing up: TD Canada Trust http://t.co/08v9ydb  

Time to buy Real Estate in Calgary with Bank Rate remaining unchanged!

The Bank of Canada announced today that it will not be changing its overnight rate. Therefore the Prime lending rate remains at 3.00%.

The Bank of Canada feels that the global recovery is proceeding as they projected although risks remain elevated. U.S. activity is solidifying and remains supported by stimulative fiscal a ...

RED FLAGS for CONTRACTOR FRAUD
I received this helpful article

From: Tanya Wttewaall of
Dominion Lending Centres Plancorp

With Spring on its way and many homeowners thinking about fixing up or remodelling their homes, it’s always wise to educate yourself on signs of contractor fraud to ensure you don’t end up paying for work that never gets completed. Following are five red flags that ma ...

Calgary Condo Sales and Prices to the end of January 2011.

The number of condominium sales for the month of January 2011 was 302. This was down from the 320 condominium transactions recorded in December 2010. Condominium sales saw a decrease of 20 per cent from the same time a year ago. In January 2010, condominium sales were 376.

The average price of a condominium in the city of Calgary in J ...