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Urbaneer’s Summer 2012 Real Estate Forecast - Part 2

July 09, 2012 | Real Estate, Urbaneer's Real Estate Forecasts

  As a child I often played the Monopoly Board Game with my family. The game of Monopoly is a real-estate trading game that was developed in the first half of the twentieth century. The premise of the game is that eventually, due to market forces simulated within the game…
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Our Fall 2011 Forecast Part 2

September 06, 2011 | Real Estate, Urbaneer's Real Estate Forecasts

The photo above illustrates how the hot fashion colours included in my Spring Summer 2011 Forecast are appearing in the world of real estate. Click HERE to review that posting. In it you'll read several of my insights that serve as continued dire forewarnings indicators for this coming season's market. More recently, I'm hoping…
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Our Fall 2011 Forecast Part 1

September 01, 2011 | Real Estate, Urbaneer's Real Estate Forecasts

This may surprise you, but the fashion forward aren’t the only people who monitor the trends and styles that designers send down the runway. Economists and realtors like myself also look to cool hunters in the fashion world to forecast consumer consciousness and behaviour. Of course, fashion and real estate…
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Fall 2010 Forecast

August 09, 2010 | Books & Magazines, News, Real Estate, Trades, Urbaneer's Real Estate Forecasts, Worthy Websites

Ok, so here we are in the heat of summer when real estate sales are traditionally their slowest and the media is making dire predictions on where the market is headed. Here's my two cents from the real estate trenches! First, Toronto Life Magazine did a good job wigging us out with their July article called 'Bubble Trouble'.…
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