If you are asking yourself this question, you apparently are not alone. Pending condo sales plunged 20 percent in 2011,...

algary condo sales have reached new heights after a luxury unit fetched a record $8.3 million, before construction has begun.

A search of the local multiple listing service (MLS) shows 202 condo sales in the greater Charlottesville area in 2011, a 40 percent increase over the previous year that was noted in November in the market snapshot report released by Nest Realty. While these numbers can't match the soaring figures we saw in 2006, the upward trend seems encouraging, although the backers of the condominium ...