WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes was essentially flat in January, a possible sign of a softening real estate market.
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WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes was essentially flat in January, a possible sign of a softening real estate market.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Foreign investment in Canadian securities was roughly halved in October, with money market holdings slumping because of the retirement of federal T-bills but substantial investment being made in bonds and equities, Statistics Canada said on Monday.
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Looking ahead to the housing market in 2014, with Jed Kolko, Trulia chief economist, and Bob Wetenhall, RBC Capital Markets homebuilding analyst. Wetenhall is buying the suppliers.
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A lack of supply of new homes in the United States, combined with better fundamentals, has created an opportunistic environment for real estate investors, said Jonathan Gray, Blackstone’s global head of real estate.
CALGARY — A new poll says 60 per cent of Canadian homeowners admit they made at least one mistake when they bought a home.
The 20th Annual RBC Home Ownership Poll, released Monday, said Albertans (15 per cent) thought their top mistake was that they purchased too quickly.
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Before making the decision to buy, people shopping for homes consider hundreds of factors. They include location of the house, the school district, size of the lot and also interior features. Most buyers insist on a house that grants most of their wishes, but shoppers often settle for a house without getting everything they want.
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Jim Rogers, who will be Michael Campbell’s guest on Money Talks April 27th, who also predicted a commodity rally in 1999, said he may buy gold if a bear market deepens and prices fall to $1,300 an ounce or below
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Nearly 6,000 Lethbridge-area residents got “new wheels” last year. And this year, local auto dealers are expecting to sell still more.
Sales fell after recession hit in 2008, but industry spokesman Todd Brown says business continued to improve through 2012.
“There’s renewed confidence in Lethbridge,” says Brown, president of the Lethbridge Auto Dealers’ Association. By year’s end, “Most of the dealers finished pretty strong.”
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