Condos in those areas were up 17.7 per cent to $646,000 over the same time period. Such buyers have driven the aggregate price of a single-family home in Alberta’s recreational markets up 13.3 per cent year over year to $1,165,500 last year, according to Royal LePage. Others are fleeing Toronto and Vancouver’s elevated prices or hoping to pad their incomes with a rental property in the shadow of the Rockies. Robinson’s clients tend to live in Calgary and Edmonton but want a second place to serve as a mountain retreat now that they are permanently working from home or heading to the office only a few days a week. Many are flocking to the area because it sits just outside the gates of Banff National Park, where Parks Canada has restricted home ownership to people who live in the area to ensure housing is available to community members and isn’t swallowed up vacationers or second-home owners. “It’s going to get busier, it’s going to get bigger, it’s going to get more expensive,” Robinson said.Īs the heart of the spring market nears and the summer sun seems closer than ever, he’s noticed desirable properties in Canmore, 20 minutes from Banff, being snatched up within 72 hours. “Basically, anything that’s for sale at this moment is selling fairly quickly, and so supply is definitely an issue,” said the real estate agent.Ĭities close to the mountains, beach or lake have long had hot real estate markets.īut Robinson and other real estate agents say the ability to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic and a wave of people taking up outdoor hobbies have supercharged demand for recreational homes - and supply isn’t keeping up. On Tuesday, the next LOTTO MAX draw will amount to a total of $132 million in prizes - the $70 million jackpot and an estimated 62 MAXMILLIONS each worth $1 million.When Jamie Robinson thinks about the number of properties available in and around Alberta’s mountain mecca Banff, one word comes to mind: “horrendous.” Two ticket buyers, one in York Region and the other in Woodbridge, each won $100,000 from ENCORE prize winning tickets. Two MAXMILLIONS prize winning tickets each worth $500,000 were sold in Woodbridge and online at OLG.ca.
Ontario is home to the majority of those winners with six MAXMILLION prizes sold in York Region, Markham, Burlington, Brant County, Welland and Toronto.Ī LOTTO MAX ticket worth more than $1.4 million was sold in Simcoe County while a $1 million ENCORE prize was purchased in Toronto. Sixty-one $1M MAXMILLION prizes were drawn on Friday night and 19 winners were announced across Canada. The biggest prize ever offered – $140M – was part of a June 2021 draw. The corporation says this sum is the second biggest offered in OLG history.
There was a total of $130M in Lotto Max prizes up for grabs in Friday’s draw – a $70M jackpot, and an estimated 60 $1M MAXMILLION prizes. “While the $70 million LOTTO MAX jackpot remains up for grabs, Ontario LOTTO MAX players did very well in the MAXMILLIONS draw,” a spokesperson for the OLG said in a news release on Saturday morning. The second-highest Lotto Max draw in Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation history took place last night with no jackpot winner and eight people declared millionaires in Ontario.
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