Alberta budget surplus announcement good news for all. Tuesday the Alberta government released latest budget information for the province. Finance and Enterprise Minister Iris Evans released the province's First Quarter Update, showing a forecast surplus of $8.5 billion for 2008-09, $7 billion higher than predicted in Budget 2008. Higher-than-budgeted resource revenues will enable government to increase ...
Posted by Patrick Galesloot
on August 27, 2008
Joffre is located 23 km northeast of Red Deer, Alberta. For most residents of the area, the petrochemical site and the bridge over the river are more synonymous to Joffre than the actual village. A few name changes over the years with the exception of the large NOVA Chemicals.
NOVA Chemicals' Joffre manufacturing facility lies just east of Red Deer, Alberta, and is the largest ethylene ...
Posted by Patrick Galesloot
on August 17, 2008
Great weather continues to favour Red Deer and Central Alberta. The rush to find homes prior to the school year starting is continuing.
The trend continues in August the number of active listings are on the decline in the City of Red Deer. Still a large selection to choose from. We would expect the number of active listings and the sales to slowly decline as we continue ...
Posted by Patrick Galesloot
on August 11, 2008
July housing sales increased over last year by 22%. A dramatic change in the sales pattern for 2008 so far. Not enough to pull a reversal on what has transpired so far but an optimistic outlook for the fall perhaps. Total single-family home MLS sales for the month of July 2008 totaled 139. That was 22% more than the 114 sales reported in 2007 for single-family homes. House prices have remained ...
Posted by Patrick Galesloot
on August 6, 2008