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House #1 Rises
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Sunday
May 3, 2015
Tisdale
by: Timothy W. Shire
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As was mentioned last week in Ensign this is the first house to be under construction in Tisdale, so far this year. The contractor is Rise Construction which is one of the most efficient and does the most rapid home erections in the community. Rises Construction works with two craftsman and one skilled craftswoman and these images were taken in a single week.
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In the years I have been taking pictures of houses under construction here in Tisdale (since 1998) I have noticed a steady trend toward larger and larger dwellings. No doubt someone will have a plausible explanation for this phenomena but for me it is a simple trend that continues from year to year. The four new houses east of Newmarket are all multi-tory and extensive in size.

In the media there is also a strong trend toward encouraging people to build affordable very compact houses as they use less energy and require considerably less money to maintain. I suspect that this trend on TV and in news papers may be reflecting the truly extreme value that new homes in major cities like Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto are commanding. However, the price of new houses and even middle income homes in Regina and Saskatoon are now routinely above that half million dollar mark. With the present interest rates acquisition of such dwelling is possible but a return to normal interest rate levels of above 5% would even very modest Regina and Saskatoon houses well out of reach for most people.
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