His company is in a joint venture rushing to complete a 27-acre project with 94 townhomes, more than 30 detached-house lots and a 12-acre modular home site. Statistics from the Windsor-Essex County Association of Realtors shows the average price of a home sold in February 2019 was $322,109. In 2007, Stephen Colbert dubbed the southwestern Ontario city “the worst place on Earth”—and w. hile many Canadians, not just Windsorites, took umbrage at the slur, others not-so-secretly shared his opinion. In 2007, Stephen Colbert dubbed the southwestern Ontario city “the worst place on Earth”—and while many Canadians, not just Windsorites, took umbrage at the slur, others not-so-secretly shared his opinion. ClickTap column headings to re-rank Read Is a reverse mortgage right for you? Share on Facebook Note: Home prices represent the average sale price of single-family homes as reported by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Read “Is it time to buy a home, or should I continue renting?”, Read “We paid off our mortgage early. We used data from Statistics Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to analyze the real estate markets in Canada’s largest 35 municipal areas. It was during this time that Windsor’s vacancy rate sat at the almost unthinkable 15%—the worst in the country at that time. Share on Linkedin Royal Dutch Shell PLC is the lead partner in LNG Canada, with a 40 per cent stake. ClickTap on any In mid-April, FCA Canada (a division of Fiat Chrysler) announced it will invest $355 million (U.S.) over the next 12 months into the Windsor assembly plant, which manufactures the Chrysler Pacifica minivan. In addition, we examined 1,726 neighbourhoods in 54 of Canada’s larger cities, based on three criteria: The result is a ranking of the best Canadian neighbourhoods in which to buy a single-family home right now. As of September, 1,567 new homes were under construction in Abby-Mission, including nearly 300 new detached houses, which sell for an average of $843,900. Our goal is to provide the most relevant and up-to-date information as possible, but, as with all things you read on the internet, we recommend you digest our content critically and cross-reference with your own sources, especially before making a financial decision. By  Share on Twitter Myles expects Terrace will be the staging site for much of the work for the LNG plant in Kitimat, which is a half-hour drive away. Read Should you buy real estate through a corporation? Rental demand in the city is at a high, with vacancy dropping to 1 per cent in 2017 from 4 per cent in 2016. Buyers and real estate investors started to question whether Windsor was a good place to buy a home shortly after the U.S. housing crash hit in 2008. | Submitted, Vancouver Courier temporarily ceasing publication, Glacier Community Media © Copyright ® 2013 -, Have the Vancouver Courier delivered to your inbox twice a week! The higher-end neighbourhoods in Toronto have seen a substantial drop in percentage value. While Windsor is not part of the economically important Golden Horseshoe (which includes Toronto and Hamilton), it is a critical part of the Quebec City-Windsor corridor, which is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region in Canada.