Rayna McKay's blog. Calgary Condominium Information

 The expected return of first-time homebuyers to the marketplace is seen as key to the rejuvenation of Canada's housing sectors, says a real estate industry executive. A growing number of newbies to home ownership-- considered the largest single buying segment--have been sitting on the sidelines ...

To jump or not to jump. I guess the question that plagues new home buyers is "should we jump in now, or should we wait to see if the market is still dropping?" Well, if you know someone in this situation, they may have already missed the bottom. Let's take a few key indicators of what's going on...

Living green finally meets you were you live!  If you choose to live in Homburg-Centron Teamworks' new project Oslo at Kia towers.  Located on the corner of 11th avenue and 12th street S.W. urban chic meets environmentally responsible living in this condo building.  While staying true to the look...

November 2007 Statistics have been put out by CREB® and we are finally seeing a decrease in inventory for the Calgary area.  For the first time since February we have seen a drop in inventory.  While the sales have leveled off around the 2000 mark for the last 3 months we still have 5 months of i...

          Earlier this year our board did this wonderful thing to our MLS system, by adding spell check.  Being the awful speller I am, this saved me the effort of coping my descriptions from word into my MLS input fields. Now even with spell check being only a fast click away I find that people ...

         I'm really not sure who is to blame the public, or the industry for this very common misconception, but I really want to clear it up.  You can not tell if a building is a condominium by looking at it.  Too often people think that condominiums are apartment style, when in reality a vacant...

 "Why do I need home owners insurance, it's listed right here under my condo contributions?"    This question fills me with fear.  Which is why I always try to bring up the subject of insurance before clients hear about it from somebody else. Any Condominium that someone would want to buy will ha...