Living in Laval - La vie à Laval

With the construction holidays coming up, and a successful selling season, we’ll be taking a breather from blogging for the next month.
See you in September!

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Wikipedia always surprises us with the kind of information you can find. Would you believe we found one on the “tradition” of moving in Montreal falls on Canada Day?
Check it out by clicking here.

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Accuracy in pricing homes is one of the bigger challenges in a real estate market in flux- it’s best to compare apples to apples than skew the results by comparing them to grapes.
This is the latest report on the price of homes that we get via newsletter, courtesy of the Teranet-National Bank. If you would […]

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Île-des-Sœurs, June 16, 2009 MLS® sales in the Montréal Metropolitan Area increased by 8 per cent in May 2009 compared to May 2008, with single-family homes leading the way at 13 per cent, reported the Greater Montréal Real Estate Board. Property prices also continued their upward trend, as the median price of a single-family home […]

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Venez nous visiter au 4308 rue Séguin, Fabreville, Laval, ce dimanche à 14h:

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It’s something every home buyer and seller comes across: MLS- short for Multiple Listing Service.
En français, c’est la SIA, ou Service Inter-Agences.  You’re bound to see it less because it’s now morphed into a consumer service online, since renamed Realtor.ca. But did you know it first started out as a tool for real estate […]

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Bonne lecture!
Urban highways revisited:
Montreal’s neighbourhoods are slated for change with plans of revamping the transportation system and envisioning a healthier lifestyle. Sounds like the Big Dig, Montreal style.
Le marché immobilier reprend de la vigueur à Montréal
As reported yesterday, sales figures for the start of the 2009 spring season weren’t too shabby. 

Les saisies […]

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Source: CIGM
Sur le plan géographique, l’île de Montréal a enregistré une baisse des ventes de 11 % en mars 2009 par rapport au même mois en 2008. Sur la Rive-Sud, le nombre de transactions a diminué de 14 %, alors qu’il a reculé de 4 % à Laval, de 11 % sur la Rive-Nord et de 27 % dans le […]

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