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Amazing satellite images show cities meant to be home to millions lying deserted By Daily Mail Reporter These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction. Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with ...

August 27, 2011  Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary HeraldB.C.'s harmonized sales tax has been a "disaster" for the recreational property market, critics say, and scrapping it will open the doors for buyers, many from Alberta, who have been sitting on the sidelines. "It's going to be well received. It's going to be huge ...

Workers are flocking back to Alberta after a recessionary lull, with the province’s hot jobs market luring people from every region of the country. Alberta tallied the fastest growth rate in Canada in the first quarter of the year, with its net inflow from other provinces hitting the highest level for a first quarter in five ...

Historic central Alberta town finds itself on the radar of Calgary commuters and retail investors BY DAVE HUSDAL, Western Investor The length of the phone interview is indicative the boom is back on in Olds. It takes Larry Wright quite a while to brief you about what's going on in his central Alberta community, largely because ...

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3139641By STEFANIA MORETTI, QMI AGENCYU.S. luxury department store Nordstrom is looking for a home in Canada. Following months of speculation, Nordstrom spokesman Colin Johnson recently told Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal that the company is scouting a number of sites north of the ...

By Tara-Nicholle Nelson, April 14, 2011 One of the hardest, most important decisions homebuyers face is how much to offer for their home.  And the glut of information on the web about real estate only makes buyers even crazier than the decision itself does.  Supply, demand, foreclosure rates, mortgage rates – buyers think they ...

Calgary Herald, March 16, 2011 BY ALANNA CAPLAN  Between the collapse of the United States’ housing market and the weakened U.S. dollar, Canadians have been seizing the opportunity to invest in U.S. real property. U.S. tax authorities have increased their focus on foreign investments in the U.S. This increased focus has resulted in ...

Buying a home and building equity over time is a great investment in your future. While homebuyers can look forward to one day being "mortgage-free," renters will continue to pay rent indefinitely and will likely see their rent payments increase significantly as time goes by. Even though the average time to pay off a mortgage is ...

The Canadian housing market has a number of built-in rules and regulations to prevent a US-style meltdown, one being mortgage default insurance, says Stu Pocock, a broker with CMAC Mortgages. “In Canada, there are two different products commonly referred to as mortgage insurance,” says Pocock. “One is mortgage creditor ...

Dynamics in the housing market in and around Toronto are shifting so rapidly that many people are afraid to make any move at all. But some sellers and buyers are reacting quickly to the changes and striking deals as a result. On Lake Ontario’s waterfront in Oakville, Ont., developer Marc Hewitt mixed up his strategy for selling the luxury ...