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10 Real Life #YEG Properties Meet the Zoopraisal™ Value Calculator

November 2, 2011 Real Estate
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There’s been some news recently about the online advertising site Zoocasa releasing a Zillow-like online real estate value calculator for Canadian real estate. To accomplish this, Zoocasa went and bought access to Brookfield’s Centra system. They do a lot of appraisals, primarily in eastern Canada, and I’ve heard they gave Zoocasa access to 4-5 million [...]

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Edmonton Rental Market Survey – June/July 2011

July 26, 2011 Property Management
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Things have started moving a little more quickly in the Edmonton rental market this spring. Incentives have almost totally disappeared, and many Property Mangers and investors have said they’re starting to test the waters, moving rents up by $50-200/unit. Vacancy is down more, slightly below 4% according to Colliers, and things are (usually) renting quickly. [...]

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RE/MAX Edmonton Real Estate Barometer – Feb 2011

February 10, 2011 Statistics
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Kudos to the RE/MAX Canada head offices for getting their social media act together and getting some videos out there. The RE/MAX housing barometer measures the sales-to-listings ratio for major centers since the turn of the millenia (January 2000) and provides a bit of commentary. I’m posting the Edmonton, Calgary and Kelowna ones. Edmonton and [...]

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The 2011 Edmonton Real Estate Discovery Tours!

February 9, 2011 Edmonton
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Last year I helped Brent Davies (my Dad) start a series of tours for investors to help them get familiar with the Edmonton market and the different types of real estate which commonly make good investments. We also used it as a chance to get people out into some of the neighbourhoods that attract attention [...]

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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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Edmonton Rental Market Report – Dec 2010

December 17, 2010 Property Management

Knowing what a potential revenue property will rent for is the most important and most difficult part of establishing a rental portfolio that has positive cash-flow and creates serious passive income. To help out my clients, readers and all you investors, I’ve teamed up with several investors, Realtors and property managers to come up with some ballpark [...]

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