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	<title>GTA Real Estate Watch &#124; Toronto Real Estate Buzz</title>
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	<description>Explaining the Toronto real estate market - with attitude.</description>
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		<title>GTA home prices up, units sold down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fewer houses are being sold in Toronto but home prices are still on their way up, according to a recent report by the Toronto Real Estate Board.
The report, released Friday, said resale home prices in Toronto went up four per cent in the first two quarters of 2008, compared with homes sold during the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian realtors forced to &#8216;be cops&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Canadian laws went into effect Monday forcing Realtors to gather background client information to battle terror-funding and money laundering. Realtors must now ask for the name, address, date of birth and occupation of property buyers and sellers, plus ID such as a driver&#8217;s license or passport before proceeding with a sale or purchase.
The information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/canadian-realtors-forced-to-be-cops.htm</link>
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		<title>U.S. Real Estate Prices at 2004 Levels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;ve erased the last four years of gains.&#8221;
The American real estate market has dropped to pre-boom 2004 levels, a closely watched housing index shows. The 20-city S&#038;P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for April was 169.85, compared with 167.43 in August 2004, evaporating the appreciation homebuyers saw in the past four years.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve erased the last four years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/us-real-estate-prices-fall-to-2004-levels.htm</link>
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		<title>House sales continue slide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Home resales in Toronto continue to drop &#8211; but prices are still going up.
Resale housing activity across the Greater Toronto Area for the first half of May is showing signs of increased weakening.
Sales are down 12 per cent across the GTA compared to the same time last year.
Existing house sales in the GTA went down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GTA Real Estate Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GTA resale housing market moderate in April, but prices up
With 8,762 houses sold in the Greater Toronto Area, April’s resale housing activity was down seven per cent from the record 9,452 transactions from the same timeframe a year ago, Toronto Real Estate Board President Maureen O’Neill announced today.
“The market is showing signs for a healthy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/gta-real-estate-update.htm</link>
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		<title>Calgary is in a buyer&#8217;s market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sellers need to pay attention to the current market
Calgary&#8217;s MLS listings are taking twice as long to sell over last year, according to figures released by the Calgary Real Estate Board (CREB). Calgary&#8217;s MLS listings remain elevated for April indicating two things: Calgary is in a buyer&#8217;s market, and secondly, sellers need to pay attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/calgary-is-in-a-buyers-market.htm</link>
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		<title>GTA real estate market slows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Low inventory levels kept the Greater Toronto Area resale housing market brisk but well off record levels last month, Toronto Real Estate Board President Maureen O&#8217;Neill announced today. &#8220;Overall sales in the GTA declined 22 per cent compared to March 2007, 27 per cent in the City of Toronto and 18 per cent in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/gta-real-estate-market-slows.htm</link>
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		<title>Selling your home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider a Pre-Listing Home Inspection.
With a more competitive, balanced market upon us, many sellers want to know what they can do to make their home sell faster and for more money.  Besides pricing it and staging it correctly, a pre-listing home inspection can create a competitive advantage for the informed home seller. 
While it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/selling-your-home.htm</link>
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		<title>Commercial real estate report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toronto Real Estate Board reports 800,000 square foot plus month
In February, Toronto Real Estate Board Members reported 844,348 square feet of space leased through the TorontoMLS system, Commercial Council Chair Garry Lander announced today. &#8220;This figure is up marginally over January&#8217;s 842,475 square foot total, and we should see those figures climb even higher as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/commercial-real-estate-report.htm</link>
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		<title>Raising the bar for renovations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new, much-needed, resource that consumers in the Toronto area can use to both find reliable trades people and warn others about those who haven&#8217;t measured up. It comes in the form of an on-line directory called HomeStars.ca and is billed as a website aimed at &#8220;keeping the trades honest&#8221; through reviews posted by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gtawatch.com/raising-the-bar-for-renovations.htm</link>
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