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Canadian Real Estate Is Still Flying High

Prices in Canadian Real Estate have continued to rise, even with the dismal market in the US. Home sales in Canada are fueled by booms in the Western Provinces, and of course commodity prices. Real Estate in Saskatchewan is the biggest winner in last months stats with a 24% increase in home price as well as the largest increase in volume sold. While real estate in Alberta continues to make huge gains, nearly 30% over the same time last year, British Columbia Real Estate also remains strong with the highest average price in Canada.
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On the lighter side of business and real estate a firm in Hawaii is selling real estate that does not yet exist. Land is being sold on a volcano that is likely to produce waterfront in 10,000 years. What!
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Toronto Real Estate News

It looks like Real Estate in Toronto is still a bargain when compared with homes in the rest of the world. Toronto, or any other Canadian city, Vancouver perhaps, do not even make the list of expensive places to buy real estate. The most expensive real estate in the world is in London, England, where $5k per square foot is the going rate. My 2300 sq/ft home would be worth $11.5 million if plunked into downtown London. I would like the cash, but not to live there.

Toronto Not On List Of The Most Expensive Real Estate Cities On Earth
Wednesday May 9, 2007

Looking to buy a home and think Toronto real estate is out of your league? It turns out, we don't even count when it comes to the really pricey places on the planet. In fact, no Canadian city even shows up on the list of the world's most expensive real estate locations. The number one position belongs to London, England, where prime property costs an average of just over Cdn.$5,000 a square foot. (The city is already home to the most expensive mansion on earth.) Next is the Principality of Monaco, where you'll pay about $4,800 for the same property measurement.

The list is from the aptly named Wealth Report 2007, an annual publication that measures where the world's money is going. It claims people with lots of dough - roughly more than $11 million - know real estate is generally a good deal and are buying up the best locations. That's pushing some of the sites named in the report to record levels.

So the next time you cringe when you hear what a T.O. home is worth, remember it could be worse. You could just be getting a real bargain for your bucks.
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What Does A Million Dollar View Look Like?

You may ask you self, 'What does a million dollar view look like?' The answer is not so simple. Some would say that you can not put a price tag on natural beauty, but real estate agents certainly try. The most desirable properties in British Columbia have three things; a gorgeous view, a huge home, and is on the waterfront. Here is a listing from Surrey, Whiterock to be exact, that can give you an idea of what a $7.5 Million view looks like.

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Real Estate Is Still On The Climb

An industry expert from CIBC has predicted that there will be no housing collapse in Canada. In fact, the prediction is that housing values will increase by double in the next 20 years. This is good news for all those Realtors out there, and not so good for people waiting to clean up on the burst real estate bubble. Canada's West (BC, AB, SK, MB) are expected to keep the economy and housing going strong with the rising energy prices.

The impending decline and fall of the Canadian residential real estate market -- as fearlessly forecast by the Baby Boom watchers -- can be summed up in four simple words: "Much ado about nothing."

This wasn't Shakespeare talking, but CIBC World Markets economist Benjamin Tal.

Tal crunched the numbers and found the house price scare when the boomers become empty nesters and downsize as "highly exaggerated."

To the contrary, Tal is predicting that instead of fading "house prices in Canada are more likely to double in the coming 20 years."
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With the rise in real estate prices the Catholic Church of Halifax has decided to cash in and sell some very sought after property near the downtown core. The church says the money will be put into church education. FULL ARTICLE

Canadian Real Estate Soars

Real estate prices in Canada are still rising, and fast. Provinces west of Ontario are seeing the biggest gains, with Alberta leading the way with over 30% increase over the same month last year. B.C. set a new record for average home price at over $410,000. Check out the full CBC.ca article below.

The average price of a resale home in Canada hit a record high in February, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) said Monday.

The association said the average resale home sold for $294,880, based on Multiple Listing Service figures. That's an increase of 10.6 per cent from a year earlier.

Record highs were set in six provinces: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

The most expensive real estate was again found in British Columbia, where the average MLS property sold for $412,847 in February — an increase of more than $10,000 from January and up more than $43,000 from February of last year.

But the biggest increase took place in Alberta, where provincial MLS figures showed the average price of a resale home jumped 34.1 per cent to $343,515. Put another way, the average Alberta homeowner saw their worth grow by $87,390 in the last year (at least, on paper) simply by living in their homes.

Smaller double-digit increases were also seen in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But from Ontario east, the gains were all in the single digits.

"Recent mortgage interest cuts, together with a strong job market and rising incomes will keep home buyer sentiment upbeat and could make the spring home buying season one for the record books," CREA chief economist Greg Klump said in a statement.

CREA had released a preliminary price survey three weeks ago that foreshadowed Monday's announcement. That survey showed that resale prices in many of Canada's major cities had set a record in February.

The Big Real Estate Companies Say That Real Estate Is Still Booming All Across Canada

The big real estate companies say that real estate in still booming all across Canada. This is good news. People still believe in our hot economy, and what is a better way to spend your money than on a home. This article from City News shows current stats from all across Canada. Check your market and see waht is happening.

In A Hot Real Estate Market People Will Buy Anything

In a hot real estate market people will buy anything. This article is a little dated but it shows that insanity of people who have an urge to buy in a hot real estate market. This article is from azcentral.com, originally in the New York Times, and shows how people in the US where snapping up property in the recently hot, and now slumping, real estate market to the south.

Paul Nelson had never seen Paraiso del Mar, a resort and golf community in La Paz, Mexico, on the Baja Peninsula, before he signed a contract to buy a $200,000 beachfront condominium there. And he didn't even consider flying down to check it out before putting down a deposit."I thought in the very worst case, at $200,000, I'm not going to get hurt that bad," said Nelson, 58, a semiretired songwriter from Nashville. "I don't lose any sleep."Nelson is one of a growing number of people who are bidding on investment properties and second homes before seeing what they are buying. Though the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the National Association of Realtors have no data on purchases made sight unseen, officials at both groups say they are hearing more anecdotal reports of these sales than ever.

"Nine years ago you would never have heard of this," said Jim Nabors, president of the National Association of Mortgage Brokers. "We have no empirical data, but you go to a conference and you hear people talking about this more and more. I'd say the numbers have probably increased dramatically."Of course, with more information available on the Web, "sight unseen is kind of a misnomer," said Gary Garland, owner of Crested Butte Real Estate in Colorado. "It's not like we're sending buyers Polaroids like we used to.""Virtual tours" of vacation properties displayed over the Internet help people like Nelson, who also bought an $800,000 investment home sight unseen in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a few years ago, size up their purchases. Buyers can be in for surprises when they finally see their properties. Ellen Ashley, 55, a real estate agent from Portola Valley, Calif., signed a contract on a $650,000, 2,500-square-foot home on Vashon Island, near Seattle, that looked great on the Internet. Only when she visited it for the inspection did she find out about the noise from a nearby road. She was able to get out of the purchase.

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