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The Sky Isn’t Falling Nor Has The Bubble Burst

by Rick Crouch | May 26, 2022 | Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General, Real Estate Market Activity, Real Estate Statistics, Uncategorized

After more than two years of robust sales with surging home prices unlike most of us have ever seen, it is amazing how quickly change can happen.  The real estate market has clearly changed direction and while opinions vary and the compass has yet to settle on what...

Luxury Properties Drove Area Real Estate Sales in 2021

by Rick Crouch | Mar 2, 2022 | Luxury Market Information, Luxury Market Statistics, Uncategorized

Luxury homes and condominium sales, which are those properties priced over $1 million across the Southern Georgian Bay area continued to play a key role in driving MLS® dollar volume during 2021. NOTE: Areas covered in this report are Clearview Township, Collingwood,...

Area Real Estate MLS® Dollar Volume in September Continues To Soften

by Rick Crouch | Oct 19, 2021 | Uncategorized

Area real estate sales in September showed a modest gain over August but the southern Georgian Bay real estate market continues to reflect softer activity from one year ago as do other markets across Canada.  All indications reflect that we are headed towards more...

The Upcoming Federal Election Is A Matter Of Trust

by Rick Crouch | Sep 1, 2021 | Business Matters, Community Affairs, Odds and Ends, Politics, Uncategorized

Today is the first day of September.  Many kids are back in school, for most summer holidays are behind us, we are back to a regular work schedule and life is getting back to normal as best as it can with COVID 19 still unwilling to surrender. On September 20th,...

Collingwood Pauses New Development With “Interim Control By-Law”

by Rick Crouch | May 3, 2021 | Legal Issues, Municipal Affairs, Politics, Real Estate General, Uncategorized

For those of us that are avid readers and follow the news whether it’s local, national, business, politics or any number of other topics, there has been no shortage of material to digest and weigh-in on over this past several months if not years.  Nowhere has...

Canada and U.S. House Values Appreciate Differently

by Rick Crouch | Mar 12, 2021 | Uncategorized

As we near the end of the first quarter of 2021, the big question on the minds of including my own is, how long will the current real estate market boom last? In a prior post titled “Key Factors Impacting Today’s Strong Real Estate Demand” I touched...
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