For awhile now I’ve been thinking about trying to attempt to quantify the relationship between population growth and housing construction. We’ve been hearing for a year or two now about how our city is actually overbuilt to a significant degree. This of course would come to a surprise to manyContinue Reading

Hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. If it was anything like mine, it was likely full of sun and way too much refined sugar. If you’ve been reading the releases coming from the various real estate associations, you may have noticed they are now talking up the month-over-month salesContinue Reading

When I first started looking at the litany of stats released every month by the various outlets, it was kind of overwhelming. There are dozens of different measures, examining things from just as many angles. Even with my background in accounting and statistics, it was kind of wild. But asContinue Reading

Those that follow the stats released by their local real estate boards may have noticed that their inventories don’t seem to add up. For example, at the end of December in Edmonton there were 6,316 units in inventory. Then in January there were 2,443 new listings, and 730 sales. DoingContinue Reading