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Home sales rise, December prices climb 0.9% from last year
January 16, 2012 – 7:19 am | No Comment

National resale housing activity continued to rise in December, up 1.8 per cent compared with November, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday.

Only in government could $800,000 be ‘nominal’
September 17, 2011 – 9:01 pm | No Comment

The Liberal government should tell its real estate arm to back off the inflated demand for the Eramosa Karst feeder lands.

New warning on house prices
July 12, 2011 – 5:44 am | No Comment
New warning on house prices

For the second time in less than a week a Canadian bank has issued a warning about the real estate market overheating.

New warning on house prices
July 12, 2011 – 5:44 am | No Comment
New warning on house prices

For the second time in less than a week a Canadian bank has issued a warning about the real estate market overheating.

Hamilton tops another list of best places to invest
May 9, 2011 – 9:01 pm | No Comment
Hamilton tops another list of best places to invest

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Hamilton tops another list of best places to invest

Housing starts take a dive in December
January 11, 2011 – 1:02 pm | No Comment

Canada’s housing market appears to be heading for a soft landing in 2011, with the pace of home-construction slowing last month — easing concern that a glut of new properties will come on the market and undercut real estate prices.

CRÉA members ratify deal that would give consumers wider choice of services
October 24, 2010 – 6:05 pm | No Comment

Delegates from Canada’s 101 local real estate boards Sunday ratified a deal worked out by the federal Competition Bureau and the real-estate industry.

Ticats ready to kick off talks on role in new Pan Am stadium
February 20, 2010 – 7:22 pm | No Comment

(Feb 20, 2010) - The city and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are set for more detailed talks now that the site of the Pan Am stadium has been pinned down.

Big Pan Am payback expected
February 17, 2010 – 10:22 pm | No Comment
Big Pan Am payback expected

(Feb 13, 2010) - A Pan Am Games stadium on a west harbour site would mean a massive economic gust to revitalize Hamilton’s economy, a business plan forecasts.

Stadium site costs set to double
February 12, 2010 – 9:47 am | No Comment
Stadium site costs set to double

(Feb 12, 2010) - TOURISM HAMILTON’S executive director David Adames will make recommendations to city council next week about how to acquire properties on a three-block parcel of land in the west harbour where a Pan Am Games stadium has been proposed. A business report says the costs of acquiring and remediating the land could add $10 million to the projected cost.

Chamber likes stadium by lake
February 11, 2010 – 10:18 am | No Comment

(Feb 11, 2010) - The voice of city businesses is trumpeting the west harbour as the best site for the Pan Am Games stadium.

School-closing review committees to be struck
February 11, 2010 – 10:14 am | No Comment

(Feb 11, 2010) - Falling student enrolment means all but three of Hamilton’s public high schools will be under close scrutiny in the coming months before a decision is made about which ones should close.

Unsafe building torn down in Hamilton
February 11, 2010 – 10:12 am | No Comment
Unsafe building torn down in Hamilton

(Feb 11, 2010) - Demolition crews are tearing down the Ambassador Heights building on St. Joseph’s Drive, the final chapter in a three-year saga of crumbling concrete and unpaid taxes.

City eyeing $300,000 in cuts to hit target of 2 per cent
February 11, 2010 – 10:08 am | No Comment
City eyeing $300,000 in cuts to hit target of 2 per cent

(Feb 11, 2010) - The city is only a few budget slashes away from meeting its goal of a tax increase of 2 per cent or less.

Plan B for City Park includes 1,500-seat Pan Am stadium
February 7, 2010 – 12:47 pm | No Comment

BURLINGTON (Feb 6, 2010) - It’s not the preferred choice.

Fire destroys Dundas bakery
January 4, 2010 – 10:09 am | 2 Comments
Fire destroys Dundas bakery

Nayantara Malloy thinks of her husband’s old love letters in the apartment they fled when flames engulfed their building, and starts to cry.
But then she looks at her beautiful six-month-old baby son Nirvan and glances …