High Rise New Home Sales Top Low Rise Sales in GTA
RealNet Canada Inc. releases the March 2008 GTA New Home Market Report, providing insight into sales activity, index price and remaining inventory of Low Rise and High Rise projects by product type for each of the Toronto Real Estate Board districts.
There were 3,077 new home […]

Our Open house success stories continue!
The most recent is from Scarborough Ontario:

Owner’s testimony
Wow! I can’t believe we helped our mother sell her house on the very first day we had our open house…that’s only less than 2 days after posting our listing on ByTheOwner.com!! The open house was a success, people were attracted […]

Growth in house prices will slow as housing market becomes more balancedFor 2008, the demand will moderate.Existing home sales, as measured bythe Multiple Listing service (MLS®),are expected to decrease by 8.5 percent to 475,900 units. In 2009, thetrend will be similar with anotherdecrease to 465,000 units (-2.3 percent). MLS® sales will step back givena moderating […]

Come join the Neighborhood Empowerment Network  this Saturday morning for the first Clean and Green Summit!
According the the NEN Web Site ”the NEN is a collaborative platform that serves as a central engagement point for communities to find and share information that will empower them to make their neighborhoods a better place to live. The NEN […]

In the first four months of 2008, leased condominium activity transacted through the TorontoMLS system increased nine per cent to 3,075 townhouse/apartment units. Rents trended upward during this period, increasing in all categories except three bedroom apartment units. Benchmark two-bedroom apartments rose four per cent to $1,852 per month, and one bedroom apartments rose the […]

Is it more economical to stay in a hotel or a condo when you travel? How to save money on places to stay on your next vacation.
Dollar for dollar, condos beat hotel rooms by a long shot. Why? Even if you spend 30 percent more staying in a beach-front condo, you’ll save more than that […]

Don’t let the surge in prices fool you: The condo craze is all bubble. Worse, living in a condo can be maddeningly complex — and costly.
Any time speculators tell you that things are different this time, you should beware.
Yet that’s exactly what some investors and experts are saying about the condominium market. They insist the […]

The solution to the current real estate recession is as obvious as the noses on our faces. It is not loaning hundreds of billions of dollars to investment bankers. It is not more regulation of the capital markets. It is not offering new tax credits to home builders and home buyers. It is most certainly […]

Struggling home builder Standard Pacific got a big-time private equity bailout today by investors who will gobble up a bunch of equity in exchange for a nice cash infusion.  They’ve also been able to restructure about $13 billion worth of debt through MaitlinPatterson.
We’ve seen this with the banks taking on huge amounts of cash from […]

The two most dreaded words in real estate today must be “low” and “baller.”
So publishing a how-to guide for lowballers is a little like hanging a kick-me sign around our neck. We’re the ones who have to make deals happen, even when our client is convinced a house in Palo Alto is overpriced by 15%. 
Yes, […]