WINNIPEG - Manitoba Merv saw his shadow and predicted 6 more weeks of winter. If you're a seller - you can only hope we have 6 more weeks of real estate market like we did in February! Despite the unseasonably cold February, 1,313 sellers put their houses on the WinnipegREALTORS® Multiple Listing Service® in the month (up 12% from last February) ... and 781 sellers sold their properties through the MLS® (up 10% from February 2010). As a result of 1313 new listings being added in the month - the listing inventory available for sale in Winnipeg rose to 2,450 units - up 16% from last year's inventory. So there are more houses to choose from for buyers - the second highest inventory of resale homes in the past 5 years. And with all those sales and home values escalating - the dollar volume ... 03/08/2011

WINNIPEG - It took until the month of September last year to set a new sales and dollar volume MLS® record in comparison to the same month the year previous. Ditto for 2010. Like athletes vying for new records in the Olympics or Commonwealth Games, September 2010 sets the bar higher again for what September 2011 will have to achieve if there is to be a new MLS® sales record for this month. It was noted summer was a little slower than usual this year so it certainly appears cottagers and vacationers entered the fall market in larger numbers than 2009. In fact, this is the case. While conversion of sales to new listings was very similar to 2009 at 70 and 73% respectively, listings entered onto the MLS® in September 2010 were up 6%. It was enough for total MLS® sales to edge out the best S... 10/08/2010