The Rural Municipality of Tache had 25 new housing starts through the first six months of this year. Mayor Bill Danylchuk says that's right on par with the last couple of years. Mayor Danylchuk says most of the new homes in Tache are going up in the rural parts but there were also seven new builds in Lorette. He notes "Landmark has yet to have some residential development outside of the condos that are being built and the apartments. They have had two units that are being built out there in Landmark." He adds "we intend to work with the province to develop some new properties that will augment some of that growth before too too long. So some things are about to happen in that respect."

It appears the trend in Tache is towards expensive homes. "We've had some that are looking at seven and eight bedrooms, with five car garages." He says they're "very elaborate buildings that are coming up. So we certainly have been capturing the upper end of the building scale." Mayor Danylchuk says he's not sure if it's "an interest in developing rural residential homes with high quality homes or whether it's just a phase that we're experiencing right now."

As for whether or not it's Tache residents building new homes or mostly out-of-towners moving to Tache, Mayor Danylchuk says "we have a mix of both, but primarily we have people moving in from not only outside the municipality but outside of the province. We have people coming in from Eastern Canada bringing in wads of money and also we have a number of B.C. residents, former B.C. residents that have purchased property that I'm aware of and are building some elaborate homes. We also have a few Alberta people moving out this way."

Mayor Danylchuk says there isn't one particular rural area they're flocking to. "We have them from the entire east to the western part of the municipality and there is no one concentration in any area." He notes there's quite a bit of room for growth in the urban centres but not an awful lot of rural residential lots available right now and this could be hampering further growth. "The river lots are still in high demand for whatever reason, despite all the publicity with flooding in other areas in the country, including western Manitoba."