Calgary’s resale housing market will end 2015 with the lowest level of annual MLS sales since 2011, but prices in the city are still at their highest level outside of 2014.
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Beyond auto
Alternative forms of transportation dominates headlines in 2015
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DON’T BUY: Here are 15 US housing markets where it makes more sense to rent
Buying a home can be a good investment, but in some areas the cost discrepancy between renting a place and buying a place can be massive.
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MP Hillyer lays out his 2016 focus
Unemployment, property rights, and electoral reform are on the list of issues Medicine Hat’s MP will take to Ottawa in the New Year, he says.
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The Biggest Blunders Investors Make …
I’m often asked what I think are the most common, most ruinous mistakes that investors make. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them.
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After strong summer, Tampa home sales slow
A drop in the number of listings may be behind a sales slowdown in Tampa, Florida. Closed sales fell 1.7 percent in November compared to November 2014, as inventory declined more than 7 percent, according to the Greater Tampa Association of Realtors.
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Cochrane’s Historic Downtown Businesses are fed up with lack of facilities
Business owners along Cochrane’s Historic Downtown are looking to find relief from the lack of facilities along Main Street.
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November total permit values down, year-to-date still strong
Red Deer’s number of building permits in November were about the same as in 2014, but the value was down significantly. A strong public sector, however, continues to keep total permit values so far this year ahead of the same period last year.
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Nelson: Let’s admit it — the energy industry backstops our prosperity
As Calgarians embark upon a worryingly unstable new year, here’s an inconvenient truth our head-in-the-sand energy industry haters ignore.
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Alberta man fined $1 million for fraud through bankrupt mortgage firms
An Edmonton-area man who raised $10.8 million from about 125 investors with a promise of 18 per cent annual returns has been fined $1 million and permanently banned from trading securities or acting as an officer of an issuing company.
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