An article in today’s Toronto Star reports that MLS sold properties in the GTA dropped 22% in March. This is in addition to an 11% drop in February, and a 2% drop in January. So far this year MLS sales in the GTA have dropped approximately 13%. Some of the reasons given for the drop […]

I recently had the pleasure of listening to the author of Freakonomics, Steven Levitt, speak at York University. In his book, Freakonomics, has talks about the power of information and those who attempt to keep it from the public in order to exploit it for their own gain. He raises some interesting points about real […]

ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of March 2008:
Website visitors increased from 748,256 visits in March 2007, to 1,120,287 in March 2008. This is a 50% increase in website visits from March 2007 to March 2008. We set a ByTheOwner.com record with 1.1 million website visits per month!
Pageviews increased from 6.7 million page views […]

A recent Toronto Star article has some useful information on home inspections. The article can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/309881
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The Canadian Real Estate Association has begun to air TV commercials trying to promote using a real estate agent over selling your home privately. You can view the commericals here:
http://www.realtor.ca/commercials.htm
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ByTheOwner.com’s website statistics for the month of February 2008:
Website visitors increased from 677,244 visitors in February 2007, to 1,040,248 in February 2008. This is a 53% increase in website visitors from February 2007 to 2008. We passed 1 million website visitors per month!
Pageviews increased from 6.0 million page views in February 2007, to 9.1 […]

ByTheOwner.com is currently ranked as the 4th most visited real estate website in Canada by Comscore Media Matrix.
Comscore, is a world wide leading internet measurement company. A January, 2008 report on real estate websites, listed ByTheOwner.com and our french website DuProprio.com as the 4th most visited website behind mls.ca, remax.ca, and royallepage.ca.
The report […]

There is an article in today’s Toronto Star entitiled “Realtors Report a Big Drop in Sales”. The article points out that during the first 2 weeks of February, the city of Toronto’s agent sales dropped 18%, while the suburbs of Toronto dropped 11%. Also mentioned is that the Canadian Real Estate Association stated new listings […]

There is a great article in this month’s Toronto Life Magazine. Featured is one of our customers who saved more than $30,000 in commissions. Here is a link to the article “Free Agent - Toronto Life Article”
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There is a great article in this month’s Toronto Life Magazine. Featured is one of our customers who saved more than $30,000 in commissions.

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