In The Peace Country
Housing
People who move to the Peace Country will need shelter, and have the option of purchasing or renting their home.Information on housing in the Peace Country can be obtained by checking the website of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). The home page is www.mls.ca. Or, you can contact a Real Estate Agent in your community.
You may note that many homes in the Peace Country trade for less than big-city prices. In 2010 the average price of a house in Grande Prairie was $269,000. Prices in other Peace Country communities would likely be lower. We provide average housing prices in various Canadian cities for comparison:
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AVERAGE MLS™ HOUSE PRICE 2010
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CITY
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PRICE
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Grande Prairie, Alberta
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$269,000
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Edmonton, Alberta
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$333,000
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Calgary, Alberta
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$403,000
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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$285,000
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Vancouver, British Columbia
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$655,000
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Victoria, British Columbia
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$510,000
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Toronto, Ontario
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$427,000
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Montreal, Quebec
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$292,700
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The MLS website is widely used to list properties that are for sale. It is not well used for rental properties, thus you may not get many “hits” for rental properties on this website. To find rental properties, we suggest checking listings in the community newspapers, and/or searching the World Wide Web. Typing your preferred community and “rental housing” into a search engine can be effective.
Here is a list with rental listing across Peace Country:
Apartment rents are also a bargain. In 2010 Grande Prairie had an average apartment vacancy rate of 14% and an average monthly rent of $808.
The Canadian Housing & Mortgage Corporation has produced a document to explain Canadian housing. This document called The Newcomer’s Guide to Canadian Housing is available at http://www.cmhc.ca/newcomers/index.html
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