(click graph to enlarge) The Kitchener Waterloo Real Estate market has regained some ground in the first 10 days of October, gaining two points in the overall KW Housing Index. For a detailed explanation of the KW Housing Index, click here. Here is the Index at the start of the month. The only price range [...]
Archive | October, 2006
press release
This is the notice that went out today to some friends and business people I have relationships with. A condensed version of this will appear in this weekend’s KW Record with a lovely picture of me. Look for it, and I’ll post a scan as soon as it comes out For Immediate Release Benjamin [...]
Not all is sunny in Florida
Looks like there are more Realtors than homes sold in Palm Beach County, FL this year: The number of home sales in Palm Beach County has fallen since 2001, according to the Florida Association of Realtors. Today, there are some 11,000 Realtors in a county that’s on pace to sell less than 10,000 existing single-family [...]
Proposed changes to Canadian MLS
InmanNews headline story in today’s morning update is about the proposed changed to the Canadian MLS rules, specifically related to limited service or ‘entry-only’ (the house is put on MLS for a fee and then no further service is provided at all to the seller) brokerages. “The proposed amendments to the MLS rules presented at [...]
Kitchener Waterloo Real Estate Housing Market Update: Buyers market despite increasing volume of sales
(click graph to enlarge) The KW Housing Index measures the level of buyer intensity for single family residential homes listed on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in Kitchener-Waterloo. The Index is compiled using raw data directly from the MLS, and buyer intensity is measured by tracking the ratio between the number of firm and conditional [...]
Book Review: Hit the Ground Leading
“March 1992. I thought I had landed in the middle of the Wild, Wild West, but it was actually the former Yugoslavia. Crazy looking soldiers were everywhere. I say crazy because these guys had mismatched uniforms, and unrecognizable or ‘missing’ rank insignia…What did missing rank on an AK-47 gun-wielding soldier mean? My gut was telling [...]
