By Lanny McInnes The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) recently released housing-start statistics for the first six months of 2018. As expected, the number of housing starts year to date has decreased compared to this time last year. Certainly, the race...
By: Lanny McInnes A very common and important question most buyers ask when looking at building a new home is how long will it take for the home to be built? As you can guess, there is no standard answer to this question. The answer will be different for every new...
By: Lanny McInnes Residential renovations are big business in Manitoba. In 2017, Manitobans invested more than $2.5 billion into renovation projects to improve their homes. This created more than 26,500 direct jobs and in excess of $1.5 billion in wages for workers in...