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Bo Kuffmann

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Winnipeg Real Estate Market Update for August 2011

August 8, 2011 Blog
real estate

Winnipeg Real Estate Market Update for August 2011 . Each month I produce a Real Estate Market Update for Winnipeg’s hot real estate market.  I’ve segmented the housing market along 3 different price ranges, from ‘entry level’ homes (between $50,000 and $199,999), to ‘mid-range homes‘ (between $200,000 and $399,999)  and finally ‘luxury homes’ (above $400,000).  This [...]

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Special considerations for selling a home with pets

June 8, 2011 A Vids
Kattenbak

Special Considerations for Selling Home with Pets   When you are selling your home you need to make sure that everything is perfect when people come to visit.  Open houses are especially important because you will have many people coming into your house but you need to always be ready to show your home.  If [...]

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Winnipeg Real Estate Market Update for May 2011

May 3, 2011 Blog
Winnipeg Real Estate

Winnipeg Real Estate Market Update for May 2011 . Each month, Winnipeg’s Real Estate Blog issues a Real Estate Market Update by taking a look at the previous month’s sales and listing stats on the MLS®.   We report on the total numbers of homes sold in Winnipeg during the previous month, and then take a [...]

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Winnipeg Real Estate Market Update for March 2011

March 7, 2011 Blog
Winnipeg Real Estate Market

Winnipeg remains one of the hottest real estate markets in the country. Here are the latest sales and listing stats for Winnipeg’s market, showing how many homes are available and how many have sold in the past month.

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Condo Buyers in Winnipeg: Here are the Condo Documents you SHOULD be receiving!

November 9, 2010 A Vids
Condo Documents

Condo Documents: Papers every Seller must provide It has come to my attention that some private sellers are selling condos WITHOUT providing the proper condo documents to their respective buyers. If buyers are looking on their own and don’t know the requirements, they can get stuck buying a condo without these important documents. The problem [...]

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New CREA agreement: How does it effect Winnipeg Home Sellers?

October 28, 2010 Blog
MLS

“New” MLS® rules …. not so new after all! Hi everyone: By now, I’m sure everyone has heard about the recent agreement which had been reached between CREA® , (Canadian Real Estate Association) and the Canadian Competition Bureau.  In an excellent post on this matter, my colleague Norm Fisher of Royal LePage in Saskatoon, explained [...]

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The MLS® does NOT sell homes!

October 6, 2010 A Vids
MLS

The MLS® does not sell homes!  Seriously! Hi everyone: I’ve been watching some of the news reports coming out of Ontario, reporting that Private Home Sellers were hoping to be able to place their houses and condos onto the MLS® without having to pay REALTOR® fees.  Everyone, it seems, is aware of how effective the [...]

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Winnipeg REALTORS® are full-time professionals!

September 23, 2010 A Vids
Real Estate = Big Money

Image by thinkpanama via Flickr Winnipeg REALTORS®:  full-time professionals! Hello everyone: Yesterday, I received a call from someone who was looking for a house on his own. He was asking about one of my recently sold listings. After I gave him the ‘bad news’ (house is sold), I asked him whether he was working with [...]

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Fort Richmond Real Estate Market report.

September 13, 2010 Blog
Fort Richmond Map

Hello Everyone; While I produce a monthly real estate market report for Winnipeg in general, I thought we might take a look at the real estate conditions in Fort Richmond specifically. The Fort Richmond area in Winnipeg is one of those hot real estate areas where houses have a very good chance at selling for [...]

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Winnipeg REALTORS® issue real estate market update for September 2010

September 9, 2010 Blog
Winnipeg REALTORS

Hi everyone: As we do every month, Winnipeg REALTORS® have issued their monthly real estate market update. This reports MLS® statistics regarding the sales and listings of houses and condominiums in Winnipeg for September 2010. As always, these statistics cover the sales and listings for the entire south-east area of Manitoba, including Winnipeg, Steinbach, and [...]

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Mortgage Interest Rate Outlook for Canada

September 4, 2010 Blog
mortgage

Mortgage Interest Rate Outlook for Canada Hi everyone: I just came across an excellent resource for mortgage rate, interest rate, insurance rate and credit card rate information.  Check out the blog at ratesupermarket.ca This site features input by some very impressive contributors.  While NO ONE can predict interest rates with 100% accuracy, being able to [...]

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