Archive for Home Selling In Toronto
Lovely, Oversized Downtown Toronto Condo Has Wood Fireplace
Our Team has just listed a very large (953 sf) one-bedroom suite on Lombard Street just west of Jarvis.
The suite faces south with lots of sun coming in through the den/solarium floor-to-ceiling windows and overlooks a quiet courtyard with fountain.
All the rooms are quite large – the kitchen has tons of counter space and has [...]
February 2010 Toronto Real Estate Board Statistics Predict A Record Month For Sales
Toronto Real Estate Board stats indicate a robust start to 2010 with condos and houses selling quickly and for slightly higher prices – often with multiple offers to the infinite pleasure of sellers and to the everlasting chagrin of buyers.
Thank You For Making Us In The Top 20 Teams For RE/MAX In Canada !!
Thanks to your help, we’ve almost doubled the number of clients we’ve helped in 2009 vs 2008. Of course it helps that we didn’t build a cottage this year – that took, no kidding, almost six months of my time in 2008.
I applaud those buyers who, despite the doom and gloom of the first [...]
YTD Real Estate Sales In Toronto Show Large Improvement Over 2008
We’ve just experienced the strongest November for sales in the Toronto Real Estate Board history – 7,446 houses and condominiums changed hands in the month. Not unexpectedly, this is double the number of sales one year ago when we were in the depths of the world recession.
The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) is on [...]
Top 15 Things Toronto Buyers (And Their Agents) Hate When Looking At Homes For Sale
If you’re thinking of selling your house or condo in the near future, you need to look at this Top-15 list and make sure your home doesn’t fit any of these situations. You may be losing thousands of dollars if you don’t.
Buyers take note too… some of these can apply to you as well.
This [...]
Helping Toronto Home Owners Put Their Best Space Forward
I truly believe home staging has come of age in the last several months – especially between September of 2008 to March 2009 when the world’s economic markets were imploding.
Toronto home sellers were faced with a difficult market and every effort was needed to differentiate their house or condo from all the others being listed [...]
Toronto Home Sellers Often Need The Use Of Storage Facilities
In the Toronto real estate market we’re in right now, buyers are very picky about the type of homes they buy. The way a home shows is crucial to how fast it sells and how high a price it gets
The problem most Toronto home sellers encounter is coping with all the stuff they’ve accumulated while [...]
Does Your Toronto Home Have Ugly Ceramic Tile On The Floor?
For most of the years I’ve been helping sellers get their home ready for sale, or when showing houses to buyers, when it came to coming up with an easy solution to hiding or replacing ugly ceramic floor tile, there wasn’t an easy solution.
Most people either lived with that ceramic tile pattern (even though they [...]
Toronto Real Estate Jargon Made Simple
For many people the words, phrases and clauses used by Realtors and in everything you’re being asked to sign can be very confusing. It’s like having to learn a complete new language.
I’ve made available here a ‘plain english’ version of several of the documents that you’ll be typically encountering in the real estate [...]
Do You Understand What The “Does Not Merge On Closing” Phrase Means?
In the past several years, the expression “Does not merge on closing” has appeared in several clauses in Toronto real estate offers. The most common occurence happens in the chattels (appliances, furnace, etc) guarantee clause. Here’s how it typically reads…
“The Seller warrants and represents to the best of his knowledge and belief that [...]
