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May 22, 2007; Real estate
boom hits rural Sask.David Hutton, Saskatchewan News Network; CanWest
News Service
SASKATOON -- Dale Arsenault moved back to Rosetown, his childhood
home, from British Columbia two years ago to retire peacefully. The
real estate agent's plan was to work shorter days and slow the pace
down. His wife, Earla, opened a women's fitness centre on Main Street
to keep them busy.
"I've been busier than ever,"
says Arsenault, 63, who opened his real estate office six weeks ago
to capitalize on the town's growth. "I'm getting two or three
walk-ins per day from Alberta and B.C."
Arsenault now works 14-hour days to
keep up with the work, he says. Like many towns just on the edge of
commuter distance to Saskatoon, Rosetown and the surrounding area
is experiencing growth of its own, fuelled by a good location and
a desire for a simpler, less expensive life, Arsenault says.
"Here, it's not all that rush,
rush rush," he says. "Some young folks that are living in
Calgary and Edmonton find out they can buy a home for $100,000."
It's not just retirees coming back
to the town of 2,200 or Alberta businessmen travelling the province
looking east to turn a profit. He says homes in the area are being
sold to many young couples, some returning to the province, some not,
who were turned off by the high prices and fast pace of bigger centres
like Saskatoon, Calgary, and Edmonton.
"You don't worry about your kids
walking out the door," says Rosetown's Mayor Brian Gerow, making
his familiar sounding sales pitch for the town. "There are people
that have lived here their whole life that never lock their doors."
In places like Biggar, the story is
the same. People from all walks of life are touring the province looking
for a quaint town to settle down in. They want services, schools,
a short drive to a big city, a bit of industry, and health care. If
they sell their homes in a booming centre, they can walk away with
a tidy profit and gain a safe place to live.
"Houses are being snapped up
very quickly here," says Bob Tyler, Biggar's town administrator.
"It's been a pleasant surprise. People really seem to want an
acreage and some horses."
Biggar, a town of around 2,000, has
been getting much bigger, Tyler says.
Several retailers are considering
opening up in the town because of the growth, which he says has been
from people of all ages.
Mostly, he says, people are selling
their homes in larger centres and buying in the area to "put
some cash in their pockets."
Waldheim, which, at 60 kilometres
from Saskatoon, was once considered too far away to feel the effects
of a boom, has reinvented itself as a commuter town that's "worth
the drive." A recent referendum there, fought over green space,
has allowed for residential development in an old town park.
"Typically, with people moving
from out of province, there is some connection to Saskatchewan,"
says Waldheim Mayor Kelly Block. "But we're seeing a lot of young
couples moving here and commuting to Saskatoon."
Last week, Rosetown even had to call
an emergency meeting to deal with several real estate proposals. The
biggest proposal was the sale of "Little Banff," a campground
and resort area on Hwy. 7. The buyers are three Calgary businessmen
who are going to develop a $10-million Husky truck stop, a hotel,
and a car wash. They're even thinking about opening a Tim Hortons
franchise.
Gerow is also turning the former Fas
Gas property into a Robin's Donuts.
Oil workers from Fort McMurray are
also zeroing in on Rosetown and Biggar to live and Rosetown is trying
to establish a direct flight there from the airport to accommodate.
For years, Rosetown had been in a
sort of "depression," Gerow says. An aging and declining
population, a tough run for farm life, and an exodus of young people
to Alberta combined to cause a tough run for the area.
"We were dealing in a depressed rural bubble," he says.
"It's a whole different world now."
The idea that sparked the growth,
Gerow says, was selling many town-owned lots for $1 in order to stimulate
growth and bring in tax dollars. People who buy the lots have to build
on them within a year or lose a $1,000 deposit. The town office is
getting two to three inquiries a day from people interested in building
on them, he says. The Calgary group purchased five $1 lots and plans
to build a four-plex housing unit on another. A new subdivision is
also in the works.
"This is probably the most exciting
time I've ever seen in Rosetown," Gerow says. "Everybody
feels the same. There's an optimism that's just unbelievable."
Running back to Saskatoon,
Moose Jaw, Regina ... Saskatchewan lures Albertans Mike Sadava, The
Edmonton Journal; Friday, March 30, 2007.
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The lawn has come in nicely, and the Hollyhocks are huge, pink and
red! The exterior has now been painted, and the heritage nature
ot the house is lovely. The garden is full of perenials, and the
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This is the 100 year old Catholic Chapel behind my house, 2 blocks
away.
second floor back bedroom, new plywood flooring screwed and glued
to stop squeaks, and now ready for carpeting. new plywood is done
correctly and also extends to closets. floors very level. April
10 update - 2008. The boys from Carpet One in Moose Jaw just installed
beautiful carpet up the stairs and in both bedrooms. New photos
here soon!
The Mossbank school is fully modern and has an excellent
staff of teachers and support workers. The school has been growing
and now has over 120 students. The town's growth over the past two
years has been very encouraging, and real estate values are rising
dramatically.
Bedroom in front of house on second fl, each bedroom has big closet.
fresh paint, neutral colour.
The streets in town are all lined with mature trees.
Dining room off kitchen, has shag rug, good shape. I use this for
my office. walls have panelling, floors all even.
Plenty of these in the town, seems like everyone keeps
Grandpas old truck for memories sake! I love this one.
Living room and ining share same shag rug. 70's look! hey, it's
retro.
Here is a photo taken outside my front door with a long lens. You
can see the lake, also the grave yard on the edge of town just beyond
the tracks.
Front glassed in porch, needs a few panes replaced. electric dryer
is here, washer is in basement. House includes all appliances.
View from park across street. Some big trees line the road.
Town of Mossbank has well maintained streets and sidewalks, the
town manager is a workaholic!
Kitchen has fresh paint old fridge and newer stove. lots of cupboards.
Our Grain Elevator on the tracks reminds us of the past, but is
still in use.
I have worked hard on the garde and the lawn, they are very relaxing.
I spend the entire summer in the yard working with the garden. Last
year I planted 35 shrubs plus roses and Goose Berries! I have black
lake berries and saskatoons too. Three Lillacs should give me some
nice aroma this summer. I have five rose bushes of different kinds
too.
House comes with some furniture, and all window coverings, washer,
dryer, & range.
Backyard is shaping up nicely.
The tub and sink are old but clean. Toilet works well, and is solid.
Floor in good shape. The drain pipe and vent are in a strange place,
but you get used to it! Again, changes could improve the bathroom,
but for me it is fine.
Town has curling rink, hockey arena, campground with washrooms,
two grocery store, one gift shop, one restauraunt, town hall, bank,
post office, liquor outlet, Bus depot, Co-Op Gas and hardware store,
mechanic shops and more.... plus, this huge community centre holds
400 people.
Moose Jaw is 35 min drive, 35,000 people, has everything- all big
box stores - super store, wallmart staples etc etc.
Typical fall view of surrounding landscape. Grain farmers surround
the town, no heavy industry.
Biggest employer in town is a John Deere Dealership, across street
from house and three blocks down. No noise or trouble.
There is one rail road track on the edge of town that provides a
whistle now and again in the distance, and a good place to walk
early in the morning. Dog does not come with house!
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In the fall we have tourist hunters that come up from as far away
as Florida to hunt water fowl and geese. They love it here and make
it a tradition. Some even bought homes here.
About one foot of annual snowfall- for the past 8 years, but this
could change. Winters have been milder than the old days. This is
the back yard in February.
Cheap
Monthly bills: Here is what I am paying right now.
Star Choice Sat dish - 34.00 cnd pr month for the basic
Sask Hydro - aprox 60. pr month for electricity
Sask Gas - 140. pr month equalized pymt plan
Sask Tel - basic phone line is 23.00 pr month
House insurance - a good plan - 28.42 pr month
Mossbank taxes - 43.00 per month
Mossbank water & sewer - 20. per month
Estimated Total basic bills $ 348.42 cnd
My
Cheap House Dimensions
Kitchen 10' x 15'
Bathroom 6.8' x 5'
Main floor guest bedroom 9' x 9'
Living Rm 14' x 12 '
Dining Room 15' x 9.5 '
Bedroom #1 front up - 10' x 12'
Bedroom #2 up - 9' x 15'
Front glassed in porch - 13.5' x 5.5'
basement 12' x 20', unfinished, concrete floor, 8' cieling
Exterior: Front two story part = 16' x 35' = 560 x 2floors = 1,120
sq feet
Exterior: Back Kitchen one story part = 25' x 14' = 350 sq feet
Exterior: Glass porch = 14 x 7 = 98 sq feet
Basement = 240 sq feet
Total gross sq ft = 1,808 sq feet
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Facts about Saskatchewan
Tom Sukanen, a Finnish immigrant, built an ocean-going boat near Macrorie
during the middle of the dust-bowl years. He was 15 miles from theSouth
Saskatchewan River. He intended to take a load of wheat back to Finland.
He hand made every part, including boiler and steam engine. He died
before completion. The assembled ship can now been seen on Highway
2 south of Moose Jaw.
Wynyard is the chicken capital of Canada because they export the
highest amount of chicken per capita. Every summer during the carnival
days they host the 'chicken chariot race' where chickens are hooked
up to a homemade chariot and they are raced down lanes to see which
one is the fastest.
Regina is in the Guinness Book Of Records... It has the longest bridge
(Albert Street Bridge ) over the shortest body of water (Wascana Lake).
The railway track from Regina to Stoughton used to be the longest
stretch of perfectly straight track in the world.
The very first Dairy Queen was started in Melville in 1953. The original
owner was Donald M. Patrick.
In Saskatchewan there are over 100,000 lakes, rivers, and bogs. The
Province has three major river systems all of which empty into Hudson
Bay; the Assiniboine, the North/South Saskatchewan and the Churchill.
Over one-half of the province, or approximately 3,450,000 km, is
covered by forests. Of the total forest area, 2,165,000 km are classified
as commercially productive forest land and contain both hardwood and
softwood species.
Famed theorist/physicist Albert Einstein played goal for the Canwood
(SK) Canucks one winter while sojourning north to Canada to 'find
peace and silence' for his work on the Theory of Relativity. He had
played hockey in his younger years in Germany.
Dr. Ballard of dog food fame was a veterinarian in Wolsely which,
incidentally, was also the home of the very first Beaver Lumber.
Dad's Cookies were once made at the former roller skating rink in
White City.
Brett Hull lived in a little log house a few miles out of Whitewood.
Gordie Howe was born near Saskatoon.
Moose Jaw - The former Joyner department store was the western distributor
of Levis jeans. The stock would sometimes exceed one million dollars.
It had been reopened as a Gift/Craft/Souvenir store. Tragically, this
store and several nearby historical buildings recently burned down.
This store also owned the largest Cash Cable Car system (over 1000
feet in length) that was still operational. The only other one in
working order is in Europeor China and is between 600 and 700 feet.
Disney had offered the Joyner family $600,000 for the system so they
could put it into their Euro-Disney complex, but the family honoured
the wishes of the original store owner that the system remain in Moose
Jaw.
In the 20's Moose Jaw's (AKA 'Little Chicago') River Street was the
home of gambling, prostitutes and the bootleg center of booze running
into the States. The tunnels under the streets there connected the
various businesses and were used by various gangsters, and rumour
has it, including Al Capone. The tunnels were believed to have been
dug years earlier by Chinese immigrants as a way to escape. (Canada
had Chinese concentration camps although no one ever brags about that!)
W.O. Mitchell, who wrote Who Has Seen the Wind, and Jake and the
Kid
(both of which are regularly read in classrooms across Canada), grew
up in Weyburn. In 1976 the town of Arcola was the site of the filming
of Who Has Seen the Wind
Estevan is the sunshine capital of Canada.
Saskatchewan has the largest kimberlite field, (diamond-bearing rock)
in the world, located near Prince Albert, where DeBeers & other
companies are working now.
Wilkie is home to the world's largest Grasshopper - which everyone
hates because it's a farming community. Apparently you can fit eight
people and three cases of beer comfortably on his back.
A small town called Saltcoats (16 miles south of Yorkton) has been
titled the salamander capital of Canada ... The town is nestled on
the side ofAnderson Lake which is where thousands and thousands (varies
from year to year) of salamanders also call home. On rainy nights
they can be seen making their trek from the water to land. It is a
crazy sight to see so many lizards running across the roads. I will
not tell you what it sounds like as the cars drive by.
Manitou Lake is not in fact the 3rd 'saltiest' body of water - The
others are The Dead Sea and The Great Salt Lake in Utah. There are
many bodies of water in Saskatchewan that are saltier, but none have
the mineral content of Manitou. No one knows for sure where Manitou
gets the minerals from. In fact, in 1946, there was a team of doctors
commissioned by the Province to do a medical study on Manitou ('the
lake of the healing waters'). The doctors didn't complete their study
however, because at the time, they felt the lake may dry up.
Danceland - at Lake Manitou near Watrous - world's only horse hair
padded dance floor.
John Diefenbaker, former Prime Minister, lived in Wakaw and Prince
Albert. Interestingly, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Mackenzie King and John
Diefenbaker were all elected to the House of Commons from the Prince
Albert constituency. Laurier had actually run in two seats--he ran
in Prince Albert as it was a 'safe' Liberal seat, but gave that seat
up and represented his seat won in Quebec; King represented Prince
Albert from
1925 to 1944 (not a well known fact). Dief's story is well known.
This marvellous bit of trivia is added by Rod Thomson in PA---only
because it was conspicuous by its absence.
Kenny Manning
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Saskatchewan
Real Estate - Saskatoon Real Estate Update - January 2008Saskatoon
Real Estate Update - January 2008
Our current Saskatoon Real Estate market has picked up once again.
After a small lull in the fall, the Saskatoon market has started out
strong so far in 2008. The 2007 overall average sales price in Saskatoon
was $232,362 with January starting at $190,037 and ending in December
with $255,271. It seems that any homes that were […] Our
current Saskatoon Real Estate market has picked up once again. After
a small lull in the fall, the Saskatoon market has started out strong
so far in 2008.The 2007 overall average sales
price in Saskatoon was $232,362 with January starting at $190,037
and ending in December with $255,271.It seems
that any homes that were listed in the fall and still on the market
at the beginning of the year are now getting snapped up. Most people
don’t want to wait for the spring boom this year which is actually
propelling our market early. The Saskatoon market is once again in
a sellers market with multiple offers already occurring.So
if you are thinking of buying a home in Saskatoon, don’t wait
until Spring! Be prepared to be involved in a bidding competition
though, even if a house is listed first come first serve as they may
still get multiple offers. If you see a house in Saskatoon that looks
like it may be ‘the one’ do not wait as you may miss out.Contact
me today if you are looking to either buy or sell a home in Saskatoon
and the surrounding area!Kari Calder
Saskatoon Real Estate Agent
Century 21 Conexus Realty Ltd.
Prairie homeowners lead nation
in renovation plans
Oct 16 2007/Regina --Homeowners
in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are among the most likely in Canada to
be planning on renovating their homes over the next two years, according
to a new survey from RBC/Ipsos Reid. According
to the survey, 75 per cent of homeowners in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
plan to renovate or make home improvements within the next two years
and 62 per cent plan to do so within the next 12 months with an average
spend of $9,799. Some 49 per cent of respondents in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
said they would borrow against the equity in their home to finance
the renovations. "The appetite
for renovating is just about as hot as the housing markets in Saskatchewan
and Manitoba," noted Don Peard, vice-president, Mortgage Specialists
for RBC. “Homeowners in this part of the country appear absolutely
committed to maintaining and improving their homes. However, with
the highest percentage in Canada of people using credit cards (34
per cent) to pay for renovations, many may want to investigate less
costly financing options." The
survey shows that, compared to homeowners in other provinces, those
in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are most likely not to use a budget for
their renovations (42%), most likely (70%) to say upcoming renovations
will include environmentally friendly components; and homeowners in
the two prairie provinces are most likely (80%) to consider having
an environmental audit done. The
report also says that 15 per cent of homeowners in Saskatchewan and
Manitoba said they planned to sell or move within the next two years,
the lowest percentage of all regions surveyed.
Canada's housing market has hit a
milestone, with the average price of a house hitting $300,000. Western
Canadians are particularly benefiting from the surging, energy- and
commodity-driven economy, with the four provinces outpacing the rest
of the country. However, some are hoping to sell high and buy in a
slightly lower market.Beth Hudson is trying to cash in by selling
her Calgary home. Property values in that market have risen by $70,000
in the past year alone."The current house prices have a big part
to do with our decision," she said.Hudson plans on not only selling
her home, but moving out of the province -- to Saskatchewan. In effect,
she's moving from the second-hottest real estate market to the third-hottest
one."It is a bit of a surprise, because Saskatchewan has always
considered a stable steady province, and for them to have a real estate
boom is sort of not like them, so to speak," said Ron Stanners
of the Calgary Real Estate Board.According to figures from the Canadian
Real Estate Association, Saskatchewan saw the largest percentage increase
in annual unit sales and more new listings than anywhere else in the
country. However, the average Alberta house price in April was $359,640,
up 29.8 per cent over April 2006. In comparison, Saskatchewan's average
is $163,811, up 29.3 per cent over April 2006.Saskatchewan politicians
have been promoting their province in Calgary. They are trying to
lure people slightly east with promises of lower cost of living."We've
seen a lot of migration of people out to Alberta and we're starting
to see a lot of those people starting to come back," said Craig
Adam, a Regina real estate agent."It's maybe a little more hectic
than it used to be in Alberta and people are seein' that, hey, Saskatchewan
isn't a bad place to be; let's move back while it's still affordable."Hudson
feels her family comes out ahead in the deal."We can actually
afford to buy a house completely out there, be mortgage-free and have
money in the bank. What could be better than that? Sweet!" she
said with a laugh.
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