Alberta Housing Market Registers Improved Conditions – Associations Stronger demand and activity have compensated for pandemic-induced market doldrums Despite pandemic pressures, major Albertan housing markets have been gradually moving towards more balanced conditions, according to the province’s real estate associations. Calgary saw a total of 2,151 home sales in August, representing a 37% annual increase [&hellip…
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Article content Albertans are a largely positive lot when it comes to the prospect of buying a home. That’s the finding of a recent national survey of Canadians regarding homeownership by Mortgage Professionals Canada. “The indicator of whether it’s a good time to buy is very strong in Alberta right now, and that’s because it’s so affordable there after five [&hellip…
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It didn’t take long for newly elected US president Joe Biden to start exercising his executive authority by sandblasting a host of Trump’s policies. But one of his first acts in office, reversing Trump’s 1997 approval the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would have delivered 800,000 barrels of oil a day from eastern Alberta [&hellip…
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