December 8, 2008
Statistics
CMHC is well known for publishing the “official” vacancy rates and taking surveys of rental rates. Unfortunately this data can be hard to find, and the detailed information can be hidden in massive reports. A great email discussion with Sean Verret about keeping my charts updated provided this question: Where do you grab your statistics [...]
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October 12, 2008
Cool Websites
To understand the future of real estate, it’s important to understand it’s past. This usually means lots and lots of graphs and charts. Here I’ve used Google Doc’s Motion Charts (ex. Gapminder) to show some metrics for three cities: Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. It’s broken down by year, and the metrics are average price, GDP [...]
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