Market Watch Blog

Housing Sales Increase in August in Greater Saint John August real estate sales were up 19% over 2019 residential housing sales in the Greater Saint John market area. And year to date, sales of single family homes are up a total of 90 units to August 31st when compared year over year. Since the March 2020 Covid-19 shutdown, which closed most businesses, including real estate, demand has outpaced supply in our market. And while that’s not necessarily the case across Canada, New Brunswickers can rest assured their home market value has remained the same, or may have even increased, thanks […]

Real estate agents do not possess magic powers of being able to predict the future when it comes to knowing how the real estate market will rebound from the unpredicted economic decline in the past two months due to COVID-19. I’ve promised to provide my clients with facts first – and not sugar-coat the situation. The numbers from the Saint John Real Estate Board tell the real story . Residential sales in April 2020 compared with April 2019, were down 29.3%, and new residential listings showed the largest decline in recent years, plunging to an all-time low of 58.9% on […]