Posts Tagged ‘home’
There were two articles in the Globe and Mail newspaper recently discussing the Baby Boom Generation. One was an article by Rob Carrick. Rob discusses the size of the Baby Boom Generation (born in the years 1946 and 1965), plus their affect on the housing market. The other article was written by Chris Atchison. Chris [...]
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Toronto Real Estate Market Statistics for September 2011: House prices increase by 10%
In: International Real Estate News|Mortgage News|Real Estate News|Toronto Real Estate
7 Oct 2011So the stock market has dropped by 10% this year. The interest rate on a GIC is 1-2%. But housing prices increased by 10% in September. The Toronto real estate board just reported that the amount of sold homes increased by 25% in September and the average price increased by 10%. Wow! This is great [...]
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Selling a Home in Brampton And Mississauga, Ontario: For Sale By Owner and MLS
In: Real Estate News
22 Aug 2011Brampton and Mississauga are located in Peel Region. Combined, they would be the 3rd largest city in Canada, behind Toronto and Vancouver. Both Mississauga and Brampton are unique in Canada and perhaps unique in North America. Mississauga, once a commuter city adjacent to Toronto, is now a large city unto itself. Mississauga now has a [...]
The Bank of Canada decided not to raise interest rates on Tuesday. They kept their overnight rate at 1%. On Wednesday the BoC spoke more about the state of the Canadian economy. The newspapers and economist dissected the works of Mark Carney and determined that he removed the word “eventually” from his comments about when [...]
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The average price for a home for sale in Toronto in June 2011 was $476,371. This might seen unattainable to the average home buyer, because a 5% down payment would be $23,000 and the mortgage amount would be $453,000. Plus the buyer of Real Estate in Toronto would need to pay two Land Transfer taxes, [...]
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Everyone wants to know “how much is my home worth?”. Everyone also thinks that they know “how much their home is worth”. But when it comes to selling a home, it is better to look from the buyer’s point of view and ask the question “how much would I pay to buy that home?”. Home [...]
Canadian Foreclosures, Power of Sales, and Distressed Sales…What you need to know
In: Real Estate News
21 Jan 2011Perhaps you have seen the newspaper ads or the internet banners that say “Foreclosure Properties”, “Power of sales in Canada”, or “buy distressed properties”…perhaps if you “sign up” or “provide your contact information”, you will get access to thousands of powers of sales and get “great deals”? If you see these ads, we suggest that [...]
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This real estate video discusses 6 steps to help buyers improve their credit score in order to make sure that they are able to obtain financing for their mortgage at a low rate. Often buyers with poor credit scores will be required to pay a higher interest rate on a mortgage. Here are 6 tips [...]
There are 2 very popular Free Online Classified websites in Canada. They are Kijiji and Craigslist. Both of these websites allow sellers to post any item (car, hockey cards, bikes, homes) on their website for free. We encourage our sellers to post their home for sale on Kijiji and Craigslist and PropertySold.ca even includes an [...]
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Real Estate Activity is picking up Canadawide
In: Company News
2 Feb 2010We have had a fast correction in real estate in Canada. No evidence that we are going to have the collapse currently going on in the United States. Canada is currently running at record low interest rates so everyone needs to pay attention to interest rate announcements before contemplating a new home purchase. Happy house [...]
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Selling your own home using the for sale by owner method is a great money saving idea. Unfortunately, as with any medium that allows for email communication there are scammers who will attempt to pray upon your eagerness to sell. When putting your house up for sale on the internet you need to be aware [...]
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Writing Classified Ads That Sell
In: Real Estate News
26 Mar 2008With a little time and effort, marketing your private home sale using classified advertising can be very successful. The use of an online property profile at a high traffic real estate listing website combined with either a newspaper or online classified ad can improve exposure to your sale tremendously. In any real estate marketing plan [...]
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