Ottawa, October 4, 2012 - “There has been a lot of attention recently on the need to “cool” the real estate market across the country,” said Ottawa Real Estate Board President, Ansel Clarke.  “While there may be a need in some areas, we emphasize that real estate is local, and conditions and prospects will vary among major market areas and indeed within market areas.  Historically the Ottawa ...

Ottawa, September 6, 2012 - Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,141 residential properties in August through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,328 in August 2011, a decrease of 14.1 per cent. The five-year average for August sales is 1,193. August’s sales included 248 in the condominium property class, and 893 in the residential property class. The cond ...

Canada’s Best Places to Live 2012Check out how your community stacks up. By MoneySense staff Top ten cities1.Ottawa2.Burlington3.Kingston4.Halifax5.Regina6.Brandon7.Fredericton8.Edmonton9.Red Deer10.Winnipeg When we speak of Canada’s diversity we refer to the geography of the land and the ethnic background of our people. Yet when you crunch the economic data, as we have for Canada’s Best P ...

Ottawa, August 3, 2012 - Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,366 residential properties in July through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,321 in July 2011, an increase of 3.4 per cent. The five-year average for July sales is 1,360. July’s sales included 304 in the condominium property class, and 1,062 in the residential property class. The condominium p ...

Ottawa, July 5, 2012 - Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,660 residential properties in June through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,719 in June 2011, a decrease of 3.4 per cent.June’s sales included 365 in the condominium property class, and 1,295 in the residential property class. The condominium property class includes any property, regardless of s ...

Ottawa, June 5, 2012 - Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,896 residential properties in May through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,659 in May 2011, an increase of 14.3 per cent. May’s sales included 364 in the condominium property class, and 1,532 in the residential property class. The condominium property class includes any property, regardless of s ...

Ottawa, May 3, 2012 -Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,568 residential properties in April through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,530 in April 2011, an increase of 2.5 per cent.April’s sales included 300 in the condominium property class, and 1,268 in the residential property class. The condominium property class includes any property, regardless of ...

Homes and condos: What's changed and what hasn'tTwenty years ago, when The Citizen  launched its home section, the Ottawa housing market was a very different beast from what it is today. It was also remarkably similar in many ways.  To make the milestone, we've combined the newspaper archives for a look at then and now and peeked at some of the developments in the intervening two decades.THEN ...

Ottawa, April 4, 2012 - Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,396 residential properties in March through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 1,240 in March 2011, an increase of 12.6 per cent. The five-year average for March sales is 1,276.  March’s sales included 277 in the condominium property class, and 1,119 in the residential property class. The condomin ...

Hello Ottawa,   In the course of working with buyers and sellers here in Ottawa, questions that come up frequently are: "When is the best time to sell my house?" and  "When is the best time to buy a house".  The answer of course is not usually as simple as looking at statistics.      Generally my answer for buyers depends on what type of house they are looking for, what the mortgage rate ...