The movement out of rental accommodation into homeownership continued in 2004 and the average apartment vacancy rate for major
urban centres rose from 2.2 to 2.7 per cent.
Not exact matches
Quebec, where home ownership rates have been
rising, remains a renting - friendly society, at least in the
urban centres, and Montrealers who move to Toronto are often shocked by the pressure they feel to buy.
While still down overall from last year when sales started slumping in the face of fears about the housing market and tighter mortgage lending rules, high -
rise condo construction starts came in 22 per cent higher in major
urban centres in May compared with April.
Bottling and selling drinking water has grown into a big business in India over the last 15 years with steadily
rising demand from country's thousands of
urban and semi
urban centres.
The work of these two professional archaeologists charts the
rise of this «
urban elite
centre» from its beginnings around AD 1050 to its peak in Inca times between 1470 and 1532.
Its low unemployment rate and affordable yet steadily
rising housing prices pushed the city to the top spot in our annual ranking of the best places to buy property in Canada's major
urban centres.
The shift by it and other real estate boutiques to specialization in condo law has made sense based on the Ontario government's intensification plans for development through high -
rise construction, due in part to scarcity of land in
urban centres.
In the east of the province, home prices in Ottawa continue to
rise at roughly twice the city's inflation rate, but are still a bargain compared to many other
urban centres across the country.