Happy Holidays! How has another year flown by?! Is it just me getting older or have others noticed time seems to have been speeding by? As many of you know, we relocated our family to Vancouver Island at the end of 2019 while keeping our businesses in Saskatchewan and traveling back and forth. I have been keeping busy in both the Saskatoon real estate market and the Vancouver Island market. Between working with my team in Saskatoon, expanding my presence on Vancouver Island (and the smaller islands!) and being a part time “momschool” teacher it is no surprise this year has flown by ..read more

Happy Holidays! How has another year flown by?! Is it just me getting older or have others noticed time seems to have been speeding by? As many of you know, we relocated our family to Vancouver Island at the end of 2019 while keeping our businesses in Saskatchewan and traveling back and forth. I have been keeping busy in both the Saskatoon real estate market and the Vancouver Island market. Between working with my team in Saskatoon, expanding my presence on Vancouver Island (and the smaller islands!) and being a part time “momschool” teacher it is no surprise this year has flown by.   202 ..read more

With the year 2020 upon us and Kari Calder Realty entering one of the largest changes in the last 12.5 years with my expansion to Vancouver Island I am hopeful that I can continue to give back to my community (communities now!!) through my real estate sales in Saskatoon as much as I have in the past. As some of you know, I donate a portion of every sale to Camp Easter Seals. So the more deals I do, the more I can donate! Keep those referrals coming! I am happy to announce that I was one of a handful of Saskatoon agents to receive the “Golden Heart” for 2019 with donating proceeds from each sal ..read more

I am super proud to support Easter Seals Canada and to have achieved a Golden Heart Award again for homes bought or sold through me in 2019. I am grateful that I have sold enough homes in Saskatoon and surrounding communities to have been eligible for this award and am super proud of all of the Century 21 Canada agents who have achieved and exceeded the minimum of $2100 raised in a year. When you buy or sell a house in Saskatoon and surrounding area with me I donate a portion of my commission to Easter Seals. As a Trusted Saskatoon REALTOR®, it is my honor to be able to support such a worthy c ..read more

Happy December! I wanted to share with you what we are up to in 2020 as there are lots of exciting things on the go! Starting in January 2020, Kari Calder REALTOR® will be expanding to Vancouver Island in addition to Saskatoon. That’s right, starting in January I will be splitting my time between Saskatoon supporting my existing business and amazing clients as well expanding to the island. I have worked far too hard and long to step away from my business in Saskatoon. This summer, my husband and I during one of our trips to the west coast made a decision that the ocean needed to be in our live ..read more

September was very busy for me as a top Saskatoon REALTOR® so I did not get a chance to write my August market update but the early snow has me hunkering down to give you all an update for what is happening this fall in Saskatoon’s real estate market. This month we had more unit listings in and around Saskatoon with 1048 compared to 2018 where we had 936 but for the overall year we are down a mere 2%. Our sales were also up with 398 sales compared to 375 the year before. In the City of Saskatoon itself we saw 305 sales which was up 14% from 2018 where this same month we had 267 sales. The aver ..read more

Summer has hit us and we are now in full swing! I am not sure where the month of July went but I personally got away and spent some time with family. From the Saskatoon real estate stats it looks like I was not the only one! Listings are up slightly from 2018 at 1140 unit listings which is up from 1135 the year before. To date our listings are down 2.2% to 7724. Home sales in Saskatoon and area was also down almost 10% in July with 481 sales compared to 533 the year before. The average home price in Saskatoon is still above $330,000 at $331,780 compared to $337,667 the previous year ..read more

Record breaking…COLD! The month of February in Saskatoon was colder than ever which contributed to less houses being listed for sale this year than the previous month and year. There were 731 properties for sale in Saskatoon and area compared to 783 in 2018, down 7%. Despite hell freezing over here (I am sure that is what it feels like as REALTORS® in Saskatoon had keys freezing to our fingers!) we had an increase in area sales of 6% where 280 properties sold in 2018 and 296 in 2019. The average home price in Saskatoon is down 5% from 2018 where the average was $337,497 and this year was $320 ..read more

The real estate market in Saskatoon was on the quiet side for January which isn’t a surprise as it is January. The number of properties listed for sale in Saskatoon in January dropped from 923 in 2018 to 861 this year. It is not unusual to see a drop in the number of properties for sale in January compared to other months as it seems a lot of contracts expire on December 31. This will skew the stats but there will likely be more listings coming on as expired properties are revisited on price if they failed to sell in the previous contract. Saskatoon REALTORS® sold 274 properties in January thi ..read more

The Saskatoon real estate market for December showed a few changes from the year before but most of the numbers are lower than at the end of 2017. Despite the statistics, most Saskatoon REALTORS® I speak to found themselves busier in December than usual. There is a lot of leg work and work that we do as professionals that we don’t get results from so this is often the case. Saskatoon real estate agents ARE busy, but it is harder to put deals together and keep deals together than it ever has been in my 11+ years in the business. For the Saskatoon and area market the dollar volume dropped by 7 ..read more