Lynn's Nanaimo Real Estate Blog

How To Price Your Nanaimo Home to sell One of the secrets to selling Nanaimo real estate is to make sure that you price your home correctly right from the start. New sellers often think that it’s better to start high and see what happens.  This is almost always a big mistake.  If you price your h...

Why You Should Sell Your House In The Summer Summer is a very good time to sell Nanaimo homes.  The weather is great, school is out, and everything looks nice. If people are going to move or relocate to Nanaimo, the odds are that if they can, they’re going to choose summer to make the move, so yo...

Nanaimo Homes For Sale – Is It Worth It To Stage? Many sellers of Nanaimo homes ask a very good question:  Does it pay to stage your home? There are pros and cons of staging a home, so let’s take a look at both sides of the coin. Here’s an argument for staging your home in Nanaimo for sale When h...

What are baby boomers looking for in a home? Are Baby Boomers Attracted By Housing In Nanaimo? Will homes in Nanaimo be attractive to the baby boom generation? Nanaimo is certainly attractive to baby boomers.  That’s one of the reasons that we moved here, and maybe why you have – or are consideri...

How Necessary Is A Home Inspection? When you’re buying real estate in Nanaimo doing a home inspection should always be at the top of your list. A home inspection is fairly inexpensive compared to the other costs of buying a home and it is actually one of the best investments you can make.  It’s m...

Features Of A Green Home One way to make your house more attractive than the other homes for sale in Nanaimo is to go ‘Green’. It’s very likely that future buyers of homes in Nanaimo will have less disposable income, so everything else being equal, if your Green home will offer a buyer some savin...

2012 cruise ship schedule for Nanaimo The 2012 Nanaimo cruise ship season will see several ships visiting Nanaimo this summer and fall.   The ships will be docking at Nanaimo’s brand new cruise ship terminal.  This will mean that passengers will not have to be tendered into shore. The terminal op...

Nanaimo Real Estate as of May 2012 - What’s selling and for how much? The Nanaimo real estate sales numbers are in for the month of April, 2012.  How do you analyze the Nanaimo real estate market?  This is a very important question for both buyers and sellers.  For buyers looking at real estate i...

Nanaimo real estate statistics- April 2012 Here is a review of real estate in Nanaimo for the month of April, 2012.  Nanaimo real estate statistics for single family homes The Cumulative Residential Average Single Family Sale Price is down by 2% over April 2011.  The average sale price was $368,1...