Guy Huntingford has been CEO of the Urban Development Institute-Calgary for nine months, and while some of the turbulence of his first months in office has subsided, one extremely urgent issue has not gone away.
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February MLS sales in Calgary hits $1.1B
Housing contributes greatly to the Calgary economy, says the Canadian Real Estate Association’s (CREA) February report.
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Alberta retail sales balloon to $6.4 billion
CALGARY – Alberta retail sales ballooned to $6.4 billion in January registering the highest year-over-year growth rate in the country, according to Statistics Canada.
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Home sales woes: Fewer people moving out
It would have been easy to blame February’s continued feeble home sales on the weather, but Realtors seemed more taken with weak affordability and the lack of new households being formed. Sales were down 7.1 percent from a year ago to the slowest pace in 18 months.
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Council to consider change to lot allocation
Building lots in the city’s new subdivision, The Crossings may be allocated in a new way.
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Home sales up in February
Average sales for single-family homes in St. Albert grew by 12.5 per cent in February, compared to the same month in 2013, the Realtors Association of Edmonton reported in their monthly housing bulletin.
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February home starts cool down from January
Calgary’s new home construction market cooled a little bit in February from January, but really, what didn’t get colder in February?
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Buying local not that easy for city
Some Lethbridge companies may feel the city isn’t buying enough locally.
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Low inventory leaves sluggish real estate numbers
A mild slowdown in certain sectors held back local real estate numbers in February, an analysis of figures released by the Medicine Hat Real Estate Board shows.
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Calgary region retail sales to grow to $30 billion a year
CALGARY – Calgary region retail sales, buoyed by strong economic activity, will surpass $30 billion a year by 2017, says the Conference Board of Canada.
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