Norma Barber considers her job a bit of a chess game.
That’s because Barber, a long-time commercial real estate broker and owner of CommVest Realty Ltd. and Quality Property Management in Grande Prairie, spends a lot of time trying to figure out how to move pieces.
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CMHC may have inadvertently given real estate agents a helping hand, with its latest move to slow mortgage growth sending fence-sitting buyers into the market.
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Council’s decision on the future of the Whistle Stop Cafe was met with applause from the crowd that came out in support of Patti and Dwayne Johnson, who have operated the High River restaurant for 20 years.
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It’s been sitting vacant and derelict on a downtown street for the past 30 years, but next month the “eyesore” Atrium Building on 7 Street South will finally be torn down.
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Sales of single family homes sales dipped only slightly in June compared to last year, though slower movement among condo and other residential units pulled down comparisons.
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If you live in Calgary and you check your property tax bill this month, rest assured you are not imagining things: property taxes really are on the rise and way above inflation.
Some background: Calgary’s property tax bill has two components, with the city’s share at 56 per cent and the province’s at 44 per cent.
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CALGARY — Continued low interest rates are having a positive impact on the Canadian recreational real estate market, says a survey by Royal LePage.
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Okotoks residents should brace themselves for another tax increase.
Town council will hold a special meeting on April 25 at 7 p.m. to vote on the final 2013 property tax, which could see a $189.01 increase on the typical home in town.
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Mayor Melissa Blake is going to bat for Wood Buffalo residents over the new tax hike coming down from the provincial government.
It was revealed at a municipal council meeting Tuesday evening that Blake will be sending a personal letter to Premier Alison Redford, voicing her concerns in regard to the removal of a tax cap that will drastically increase the amount Wood Buffalo residents pay in education property taxes.
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The province giveth and the city taketh away.
We had it. At least on paper, we had it — a property tax hike this year of only 1.3%.
You read it right, only 1.3%.
This small increase can only happen because the province is giving Calgarians a tax cut on the side of the property tax bill the folks in Edmonton control.
You read it right, a tax cut.
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