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Why The Bank of Canada Won’t be Raising Rates Soon

June 23, 2011 Economic Fundamentals

Today I was at the dentist for a cleaning and checkup. (It doesn’t matter how old I get, it’s always nice to hear them say ‘no cavities’.) My dentist has nice TV’s at every chair, so I dialed in some BNN. I had a nice chat with my hygenist who said something along the lines [...]

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Edmonton Real Estate Board 2011 House Price Forecast – Part 2

January 12, 2011 Economic Fundamentals
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[Ed Note: If you've surfed here looking for the price of your own home, you can signup for a free market evaluation on my main site.] And we’re back from the break! This time it’s Patrick Shaver from UDI. When will people learn to stop using bad pictures on their powerpoint slides. This is mostly residential housing [...]

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Edmonton Real Estate Board 2011 House Price Forecast – Part 1

January 12, 2011 Economic Fundamentals
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I’m blogging this morning from the EREB 2011 Housing market forecast at the Shaw Conference Center. It took me a bit to get here, and Lord only knows where I’m parked, but I’m here. The schedule of events for today: Welcome and Opening – Ron Hutchinson, EVP, REALTORS® Association of Edmonton Edmonton’s Strength – Garth [...]

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Tomorrow’s News: Negative CPI is not Deflation

July 16, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

Stephen Gordon writes one of my favorite blogs on economics, and pointed out something interesting about what’s going to hit the news tomorrow. The CPI will be negative. This does not mean we’re headed for deflation. Brace yourself for stupid news articles in advance. As Dr. Gordon explains here: Tomorrow’s headline inflation number will be [...]

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Employment Diversity After a Recession

July 12, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

This recession has shown us the power of investing in towns with a diverse employment base because the impact it has on rents, vacancies and prices of real estate. Towns like Windsor are getting hit hard because of Chrysler’s woes and there is very little real estate investors who own in the city could do [...]

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Latest Property Goldmine Factors

June 18, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

Chris inspired me to put this together with his previous post. Here is the latest data that REIN Members look at when we study a real estate market. RBC’s Affordability Index measures the amount of pre-tax income that goes towards housing for the average person in the region it’s studying. Affordability = Avg Mortgage (with [...]

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Mark Carney, David Dodge and Russell Westcott on Alberta Prime Time

May 4, 2009 Economic Fundamentals

Here’s a 20 minute video that gives some pretty cool insight into Mark Carney, Canada’s monetary policy and economic strengths. The first half is an interview with Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada. The second half is a panel with Kelly Keehn, Jack Mintz from University of Calgary , and Russell Westcott. My [...]

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