Frank Steinhausen's (fsteinhausen) Blog

The January real estate market in south Pickering kind of reflected the general mood of people around Durham Region.  Let's stay home and wait out winter.  There were 7 sales in South Pickering with a median price of $274,000.There can be no market trend statements here.  There are still 39 activ...

North of the 401 in Pickering showed more activity than the South (it is a bigger district), but the activity was nothing to write home about.Only 55 of the 211 active listings sold in January, a hair over one quarter, in all of north Pickering.  The median price was $283,000.The median price for...

The weather didn't keep Ajax buyers indoors for January.  Ajax reported a more active January than December 2007.  Pickering had the reverse market (a more active December).There were 286 new listings put on the market, adding to the 67 already there making 353 homes available for buyers.  And 11...

In general, I will tell my clients that the weather sometimes will affect the market, particularly in the winter when looking at houses means trudging through snow banks and slush.  The weather seemed a little confused in January.  Maybe the home buyers were too.There were 6 sales in the Eagle Ri...