Saskatoon News

Willowgrove News-Spring 2013 As a Saskatoon real estate agent I am always being asked about what is happening in the different neighbourhoods in Saskatoon. I am a resident of Willowgrove and have been for 3 years, prior to that it was Arbor Creek and Silverspring. I am always excited to see new businesses popping up in our area and am […]
Kari's Corner A Great Week For Saskatchewan! This month we have had some incredible talent in our province! I had the pleasure of attending Oprah in Saskatoon with some of my Century 21 Saskatoon real estate agent colleauges. It was a fantastic event!  Her impact on the world is incredible and her messages are of inspiration. The show was sold out and […]
Saskatoon Real Estate News This Just In-Saskatoon’s Population Expected To Boom! The title of this blog was a bit of a poke at the Star Phoenix as I don’t think it is new news that our population is expected to boom. I am always faced with the question “Why?” when people are talking about our population growth. Many people in Saskatchewan don’t understand how strong our […]
Saskatoon Real Estate News March Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update The Saskatoon real estate market was busy in the month of March.  We saw an increase in listings of houses or condos for sale in Saskatoon by 21% and a 35% increase in sales. Spring tends to be the most active real estate market in Saskatoon. With the winter being as long as it was […]
Despite The Weather Saskatoon Has Moved Up To #5 Best Places To Live The first day of spring was yesterday. We were welcomed into spring with more snow and wind and white out conditions across Saskatchewan. Cars were being abandoned in the City of Saskatoon. Some highways were closed due to drifting snow and reduced visibility. Travel is still not recommended on many of the highways. Regina has […]
February Saskatoon Real Estate Market Update The real estate market in Saskatoon in February was considerably slower in 2013 than 2012 but that may have had something to do with the weather we were experiencing! The first bit of March and the warmer weather seem to be affecting the Saskatoon real estate market in a good way. Saskatoon home listings were […]
Kari's Corner Tips to Homeowners For Preparing For Spring Melt I am a homeowner in Saskatoon and I am concerned about the upcoming spring melt. I know that city crews are hoping for a slow snow melt and the City of Saskatoon is preparing for all of the snow to melt, but as a homeowner are you? I have some reminders and tips below to […]
Saskatoon-Fastest Growing City in Canada Saskatoon is growing-fast! For the third year in a row Saskatoon is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada. This includes our bedroom communities of Warman, Martensville, Dundurn and Dalmeny and in the year long period ending in July we grew by 4.1% from 272, 771 to 284, 008 according to numbers released by Stats Canada […]
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Saskatoon Tax Notice Reassessments Explained Don’t panic! This is the message from the City of Saskatoon regarding the new property assessment notices that were mailed out last week. Many homeowners are stressing that their Saskatoon taxes are going to double or, in some cases, even triple based on the value of their homes going up since the last assessment in […]
Saskatoon News Saskatoon North Bridge-To Become a Reality Soon? As a Saskatoon REALTOR® I am happy to hear that we may be one step closer to getting another bridge across the river but especially one heading to the North End of the city. I read an article in the Star Phoenix that reported that City Council is being asked to spend more than $100,000 on […]
Saskatoon Real Estate Update For December The Saskatoon real estate market remained strong in December, despite our early and very cold winter. We experienced a year over year increase of 7% in the average sales price and and increase of 5% in units sold. The average home price in Saskatoon is currently just under $332,000 at the end of December while […]
Life Of Pi-Saskatoon Author Sees Vision on Big Screen Saskatoon author, Yann Martel, is definitely having a great year! One of the big stories of the year in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix (and world wide) is the major motion picture of the famous book, Life of Pi. Yann Martel wrote the book while living in Montreal but he has been living here for quite […]
Saskatoon Needs More Schools-Stonebridge Overview Part 2-focus on Stonebridge As a REALTOR(r) in Saskatoon I am often dealing with out of town buyers and one area that is important to many Saskatoon home buyers are the schools in the neighbourhood they are considering. According to an article in the Star Phoenix the public and Catholic school divisions new schools in […]
Saskatoon Needs More Schools-Hampton Village Overview Patience is a virtue but for many Saskatoon families patience is running out when it comes to the apparent lack of prioritizing for new schools in some of our newer neighbourhoods. We are seeing more about it in the news in this past week so it is definitely getting notice. While Hampton Village and Stonebridge […]
Warman Is Saskatchewan’s 16 City! The town of Warman has grown to city status with 8000 residents. Warman is now officially Saskatchewan’s 16th city! The city manager, Ivan Gabrysha, stated that there were more housing starts by July than in all of 2011. There will be more than 250 new homes for sale in Warman this year and an industrial […]
Saskatchewan Has Too Many Jobs? Yes, you read the title correctly. Saskatchewan has too many jobs. According to articles printed on Yahoo Finance Canada  And yes, this is enviable to much of the world. Most areas are dealing with overwhelming debt and high unemployment while we are now struggling to find enough workers. Just 5-6 years ago our problem was reversed […]
Saskatoon Girls Win on Dragon’s Den I am so proud to blog about good friends of mine, Elysia and Natasha Vandenhurk, and their new business success. I won’t say new business venture as they have been working on this for several years and have now achieved National success. They have been all over the news this past week including an article […]
Construction Delays…Again It has been a bit of a disappointing week so far for construction news in Saskatoon. The first news concerns the Circle Drive project and completion. The $300M south bridge project was supposed to be open at the end of this month, one month behind the original date, but now it is unclear if it […]
Saskatchewan Continues To Boom A recent article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix spoke about the large influx of people to our province in the past year. 2011 was the largest increase in population since 1921-nearly 100 years with an additional 22,000 plus people moving to Saskatchewan in the past year. Saskatchewan is not only attracting people from other provinces in […]
Scams Scams and More Scams! I read an article in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix that really made me shake my head-yet also made me realize that I could possibly be daft enough to fall for this particular scam with my love of wine and flowers. Unfortunately with all of these scams going on in this world we are going to […]