The fourth quarter of condo sales activity reaffirmed the momentum and impressive condo sales activity which commenced in earnest in the latter half of 2020. It never let up in 2021 and this was certainly evident in the last three months of 2021 with sales up 12% over the same period in 2020 when condo sales were surging in comparison to 2019. Comparing fourth quarter 2021 to the same quarter in 2019 shows a 53% jump in condo sales.

Whether it improves the sustainability of your condo operations, reduces waste, increases energy efficiency, reduces water consumption or just beautifies the environment surrounding your property, we’d like to hear from you - just send us an email with a subject line of “CCI Green Condo Page”. We hope to hear from you soon. Please send any comments or suggestions to cci.mb.news@gmail.com.

Whether it improves the sustainability of your condo operations, reduces waste, increases energy efficiency, reduces water consumption or just beautifies the environment surrounding your property, we’d like to hear from you - just send us an email with a subject line of “CCI Green Condo Page”. We hope to hear from you soon.

This is hopefully going to be a recurring feature in our quarterly newsletter, with wide ranging topics all related to the environment. Whether it improves the sustainability of your condo operations, reduces waste, increases energy efficiency, reduces water consumption or just beautifies the environment surrounding your property, we’d like to hear from you - just send us an email with a subject line of “CCI Green Condo Page”. We hope to hear from you soon.

HAPPY SPRING!

Spring is such a promising season with the promise of warmer weather, longer days, birds singing, the geese returning and the blooming

Here’s to a better year! While it appears it may be a long while until we return to somewhat normal times, the future does look hopeful. No one would have thought in the early days of Spring last year that we would still be living with restrictions and that the 2020 holiday season would have been so different, but we survived!

This is hopefully going to be a recurring feature in our quarterly newsletter, with wide ranging topics all related to the environment. Whether it improves the sustainability of your condo operations, reduces waste, increases energy efficiency, reduces water consumption or just beautifies the environment surrounding your property, we’d like to hear from you - just send us an email with a subject line of “CCI Green Condo Page”. We hope to hear from you soon.

CCI CONDO BLOG: FOUR FACTORS FUELED RECORD SALES IN 2020

While 2020 was a difficult year in Manitoba – the COVID-19 pandemic saw to that – 2020 was a very good year for condominium sales. In fact, it was a record year. A 5.5 per cent increase in sales saw a total of 1,847 units sold in 2020, up from 1,750 units in 2019. That broke the previous record of 1,798 units, which was set in 2014.

The Covid pandemic, while affecting our physical and mental health, and while ravaging our economy, is also having an adverse affect on our environment, as noted in this article https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/household-waste-boom-covid-1.5728420. Extra packaging from online shopping and home delivery of groceries includes a lot of cardboard, some of which ends up in the trash rather than recycling, plus lots of extra plastic which just goes into the trash. As well, there are those masks and gloves being thrown away, some of which end up blowing in the wind through our neighbourhoods. Surprisingly, there is also an increase in food waste, which largely ends up in the trash.

We have two timely topics to talk about today – how is that for a tongue twisting topic teaser? If you want to contribute to the discussion, you could tweet to twitter.com/ccimanitoba or post to www.facebook.com/ccimanitoba or make a submission to cci-manitoba.ca/resources/condo-conversation-corner.