A decades-old playground in the Bowness area is being torn down to make way for affordable housing, some residents learned Friday.
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Monthly Archives: August 2025
City in talks with international environment solutions company to build composing facility
City staff have engaged in discussions with Ambipar, an environment management company, as work continues on building a future food waste composting facility.
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Delays possible as city wraps up annual resurfacing projects
Delays and lane closures are expected for only a few more weeks as the city’s annual roadway resurfacing program is anticipated to be complete by the middle of September. However, there is still lots of work to be completed by crews before then.
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Airport ride completion improves by 30% following WestJet schedules changes
More flights are completing connections to and from Calgary every day after WestJet brought its larger 78-seat Q400 aircraft to the Medicine Hat Regional Airport last fall, in fact the number has increased to a near perfect 98 per cent flight competition rate.
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India Office Leasing Up 40% In H1 2025; Bengaluru, Pune Lead
India’s commercial office real estate sector achieved exceptional growth in the first half of 2025, with net office leasing surging 40% year-on-year to 26.8 million square feet across the top 7 cities. Bengaluru maintained market leadership with 6.55 million square feet of absorption, while Pune emerged as the fastest-growing market with 188% growth.
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Sydney suburbs where property values doubled fastest – and slowest
Property prices are supposed to double every 10 years, the adage goes, but new data shows Sydney house values have risen at a faster rate than units, with apartments in some suburbs taking up to 26 years to double in price.
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Toorak takeover: rich young guns fuelling Melb’s luxury market
Forget Baby Boomers, young rich listers with tens of millions of dollars to splash on a home are reshaping the top end of Melbourne’s property market.
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Melbourne suburbs where property values doubled fastest – and slowest
Docklands units have taken 37 years to double in value, despite conventional wisdom that property prices double every 10 years.
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Spotlight on Mark Wilson: helping brokers grow with offshore support and tech
Australian Broker is back with its spotlight series, where we highlight standout professionals in Australia’s mortgage broking and finance industry.
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Suburbs where buyer demand signals major price growth
Buyer demand is surging across Australian housing markets, with both investors and homebuyers chasing affordable opportunities as interest rates fall.
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