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December was quite typical of the past several Decembers. Listings dipped -4% and finished year over year at -6% which has been the norm this past few years. December sales where also quite typical  as to the Decembers in the past. Units sales are only down -1% and Dollar volume was also down a -...

November definitely had some very attractive results from what we usually expect this time of year. The stablization of our economy is reflected in our real estate production. Listings have stopped the -17% freefall decline and only posted a -3% for the month of November. Hopefully, this trend wi...

October posted a negative -18% in listing production for the month of October. This follows a-17% in listing production in the month of September. As bad as this looks it will help correct the overall reduction in sales per month. Thus, keeping the listings to sales ratio relatively at  the same ...

WELL FOLKS, SEPTEMBER IS UPON US AND THE CRACKS IN OUR PRODUCTION FOR 2009 ARE STARTING TO SHOW. BOTH IN LISTING PRODUCTION AND SALE PRODUCTION. LISTINGS POSTED A -17% REDUCTION FOR SEPTEMBER WHICH WIPES OUT OUR BEAUTIFUL INCREASE 16% IN AUGUST. BUT AGAIN, WE STILL SHOW A VERY CONSISTANT -4% YEAR...

SURPRISE, SURPRISE! LISTINGS FOR AUGUST HAVE REDUCED A -16% DEFICIT IN JULY TO 0% IN AUGUST. THIS IS AN INDICATION THAT SALES FOR THIS FALL SHOULD BE QUITE STRONG. HOWEVER, MY GUESS IS THAT A STRONG LISTING MONTH  OF AUGUST SHOULD BE SHOWING A STRONG CORRECTION IN SEPTEMBER. WE WILL SEE. NEVER TH...

Wow! What a fantastic month of July. I Believe the cool weather did us a favour by keeping our consumer buying real estate rather than going to the cottage every weekend. So for that maybe rain is  good for something other than watering the flowers? Imagine, 5 days of sunshine in the whole month ...

As we expected the month of June has also posted a -3% drop in listing activity, as did May. This will stay quite consistant with last years listing portfolio throughout the rest of this year. No suprises there. However, we are blown away by the fantastic June production of unit sales which incre...

As we continue into Summer and our typical booming sales season things just keep getting better and better! Wow, we are sooo lucky in Fredericton, the city of Stately Elms. What a real estate haven! Now for the facts. Our listings are averaging only a -3% drop and have been quite consistantly thr...

Well, well, well things are improving as we see the Spring sales getting ever so gradually better and better. This is so typical of the Fredericton Market where each month from January to June we see gradual improvement quite consistantly year after year. We can readily see that April sales volum...

We have some good news for March 2009. Sales have picked up substancially throughout the month. In fact they increased 18% over March of last year. Now that the snow banks have receeded March sales have gone a long way to correct the snowy January and February shortfall from the same periods over...