Housing Doom Housing Bubble Blog

While John is up in cool and lovely Halifax, enjoying a well deserved day off, we’re down here in Phoenix enjoying our first sweltering July day of 2007.  Sales are not so hot, however.

M has sent us our June preview- barnyard metaphors come to mind involving dead horses and pigs with lipstick- the market remains SLOW.

Our preview does consistently understate sales somewhat.  Agents have several days from closing to update their listings, so expect a few sales to be tacked on in the next couple of days.  However, our preview has shown to be a good indication of the month’s performance.   According to M:
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No gloom and doom on the sidebar today from this blogger, anyway. Housing Doom Canada is so taking the day off. Bright and early, we’re going down to the Grand Parade to sing this bit of music [1] before heading off to pancakes served by Halifax’s Mayor Peter Kelly.

The seagulls are appropriate. The M clan now extends from Halifax to Montreal to Vancouver.

Next it’s off to the Metro Centre to perform as part of a 90-voice back-up with this young lady. [2]

Measha’s professional singing debut was actually as a 19-year-old at the same venue (Mrs M recalls all the little M’s expressing doubts about an Opera act at the Tattoo!) Growing up in New Brunswick she’d always wanted to perform at the Metro Centre, inspired by a sister who’d come down to participate with one of the gymnastic teams. Last Thursday she turned 30, and is returning to the site of her first big gig. There will be performances every day until July 8th. Measha is going toe-to-toe with a Bass, Tenor, plus hundreds & hundreds of bag-pipes, drums, brass, and woodwind instruments. The choir is betting on the Soprano.

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