The housing market is a constantly shifting thing. People are moving in, moving out, buying and selling, and looking for rentals in a never-ending scramble to simply put a roof over their heads or make a better life for themselves. Summers are especially chaotic.

After a rocky start to the year, Niverville Heritage Dental recently reopened their clinic—and pulled back the veil on their new and improved facility, which has been undergoing extensive renovations since the winter.

Life for a real estate agent is always a bit like riding a rollercoaster. The housing market goes up, the market goes down, and it all happens due to market forces well outside any agent’s control.

To put it mildly, 2020 has been a volatile year. Businesspeople of all types have been thrown for a loop owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of so much uncertainty, however, many local homebuilders are having banner years. Especially in our corner of southeast Manitoba, it’s a booming market.

Finding rental housing in Niverville and the surrounding rural southeast has gotten increasingly difficult over the last several years. There are many factors behind this trend, including steady population growth, the introduction of new commercial and industrial employers, and an overall increased demand for real estate.

Niverville’s town council met on the evening of Tuesday, July 21 to discuss a number of items on the town’s agenda and hear from several delegations.