Archive for Home Selling In Toronto

Buying Or Selling Real Estate In Toronto?


The past few weeks have seen a balanced real estate resale housing market in the Greater Toronto Area and much of Canada, which typically favours buyers. What does that mean, and why? Sellers Sellers may have to work a little bit harder in the coming weeks in order to give buyers what they want because [...]

Caveat Emptor – Buying A Toronto House Without A Home Inspection


When buying a Toronto resale home, it is imperative that a home inspection is conducted. A home inspection can also benefit the home seller by protecting them from legal troubles down the road. Remember though – don’t hire your cousin Fred – he doesn’t have errors and omissions insurance to protect you in case the inspector misses something!

What Buyers And Sellers Need To Know About Homes With Oil Heating


Many Ontario homes use fuel oil when propane and natural gas are not viable options for heating in the area. These homes will normally have an oil tank somewhere on the property, and when preparing to sell your home it’s a wise investment to have the tank inspected and to know how old it is.  [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]