Do your eyes glaze over when you are faced with pages of information, charts and graphs? I have simplified the comparison between mortgage-lender insurance and personally-owned mortgage insurance.

The 5 top design plans for Lansdowne Park have just been released from the city. Five bold plans all have a focus on the Aberdeen Pavilion ( Cattle Castle ) from green houses inside of it and housing the Ottawa Farmer's Market to bringing the waters of the canal right to it's door.

Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1841 residential properties in April through the board's Multiple Listing ServiceR system compared with 1591 in April 2009.  That represents and increase of 15.7 percent.  Those numbers blew away the record for April which is always one of the busiest months of the year.
Four hundred and twenty-five of those sales were in the condominium property class while the rest were in the residential property class.
The average sale price of condominiums was $254,220 an increase of 17.4 percet over April 2009.  The average sale price of residential properties was $356,617 and increase of 11.7 percent over April 2009.

Info received from Mike Hatch of Ottawa's Home team at www.ottawashometeam.com

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March 5, 2010 : A Great Start to 2010 for Ottawa’s Housing Market

Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,118 residential properties in February through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system compared with 787 in February 2009, an increase of 42.1 per cent.

Of those sales, 323 were in the condominium property class, while 795 were in the residential property class. The condominium property class includes any property, regardless of style (i.e. detached, semi-detached, apartment, stacked etc.) which is registered as a condominium, as well as properties which are co-operatives, life leases and timeshares. The residential property class includes all other residential properties.

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November 4, 2009 : Resale home sales still riding high in Ottawa

Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,202 residential properties in October through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system compared with 964 in October 2008, an increase of 24.7 per cent.