Share The Bank of Canada has come to a decision today, and that is to keep its historically low rate of 0.25%, however it has been noted that there are still significant fragilities in the economy despite the recent upswing. The Bank of Canada is expected to keep the low rate in place in order [...]
Share With the Bank of Canada making its decision tomorrow, there is one thing that you can all be certain about, the overnight target rate will not change, and there will not be any drastic changes to mortgage rates. The Bank of Canada is expected to keep the historically low rate of 0.25% until the [...]
Share Residential real estate sales should be recovering in almost all major Canadian cities by the end of 2009, with average prices reaching new records in an improved economic climate according to a new housing report. The survey for 2010 predicts that sales will be lead by an anticipated 45% increase in Vancouver, while Ottawa [...]
Share The month of November was fairly good for the Lethbridge real estate market as the number of sales for the month was up 48% from year ago levels. The number of sales that took place in November was 158, compared to 107 in 2008. This makes 49 more sales in November 2009, than November [...]
Share Spending in Alberta municipalities has outpaced population and inflation growth by a large and unsustainable margin, however in our city of Lethbridge, it has done much better than most cities in keeping the spending in line according to a new study. Province wide, from 2000-2007, population and inflation grew by 45%, but in the [...]
Share Spending in Alberta municipalities has outpaced population and inflation growth by a large and unsustainable margin, however in our city of Lethbridge, it has done much better than most cities in keeping the spending in line according to a new study. Province wide, from 2000-2007, population and inflation grew by 45%, but in the [...]
Share A formal recommendation has been made on how the City of Medicine Hat should pay for the proposed new Regional Event Centre. Aldermen now have until January 4th, 2010 to reach a decision if they are willing to sign off on it. The number of funding options for this project, which is valued at [...]
