Now that we are well into the 2009 year, there really should not be any surprises. What I mean is the economy is what it is, "markets" are what they are and it's up to all of us to move forward. You will see from my March Market Update Chart that the number of sales this past month in Canmore is up for the third consecutive month. This is good. You will also notice that our banking system has lowered their prime lending rate by ½% earlier this week - with the new prime being 2.5. This in turn means lower mortgage (1 comments)