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In January 2023, only 344 residential transactions were recorded via LSTAR’s MLS® System. This makes last month the January with the lowest number of home sales seen by LSTAR since 2009. During the same period, 823 new listings came on the market, bringing the number of active listings at month’s end to 1,261.

The LSTAR Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Adam Miller will serve as its President in 2023. Based in St. Thomas, Miller is a Broker/Manager with Royal LePage Triland Realty. He became a REALTOR® in 2004 and joined the LSTAR Board of Directors in 2017.

LSTAR is excited to present the LSTAR 2021 Don Smith Commercial Building Awards ceremony, on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at the Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre in London.

299 residential properties exchanged hands last month in the jurisdiction of the London and St. Thomas Association of REALTORS® (LSTAR), bringing the total number of homes sold through the Association’s Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) System in 2022 to 7,639.

This year, Lyle McNair of the Guelph & District Association of REALTORS® (GDAR) is the new President of Information Technology Systems Ontario (ITSO) and LSTAR's Blair Campbell its new President-Elect. The announcement was made at the ITSO Annual General Meeting, which took place on December 14th, 2022.

451 residential properties exchanged hands last month through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) System of the London and St. Thomas Association of REALTORS® (LSTAR), 44% less than in November 2021.

LSTAR is excited to present Imagine a Night Benefit & Gratitude Concert on Thursday, December 8th at the Aeolian Hall, featuring Indigenous Musicians, Artists and Storytellers.

This year's REALTOR® Christmas Kettle Drive will take place on Thursday, December 8th – in both London and St. Thomas – from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm, with 26 locations in London, and 6 locations in St. Thomas!  

To mark REALTORS Care® Week, LSTAR is thrilled to announce its 2022 Charity Golf Tournament raised more than $48,000 for The Grace Café, My Sisters’ Place, and Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU). The golf tournament fuels LSTAR’s overall community campaign giving total to more than $148,000 this year.