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carriage trade: Historic Highs and Historic Lows... Century Homes can be an Adventure! - 06/07/09 08:06 PM
Cobourg ON - former short-list candidate for national capital of Canada. Neighbour to Port Hope, original trading post in early settler days. Respectively called Hamilton and Toronto prior to the larger and more well know modern cities were named as such. Home to a great many well preserved and restored century homes - from starter to magnificent mansion.
The enduring appeal of of historic homes is unquestionable. There are legions of fans out there who troop through house tours and a few who will drop seemingly endless quantities of money into them in restoration efforts. And they do so for the … (0 comments)
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carriage trade: The Problems of Pricing - 06/19/07 09:00 PM
When listing a property, Realtors generally try to ring a representative sample of comparable homes to the table that have recently sold in order to accurately determine what an appropriate asking price is. And, for homes in areas of similar neighbouring homes, this is fairly easy to calculate... but what about unique properties? Worse yet, what about unique premium properties - or carriage trade as they are often referred to? A sub-division home that should sell for a predictable amount should sell fairly quickly in a good market when priced properly - but for carriage trade this isn't always so. Some … (0 comments)
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carriage trade: Local Expert - Global Reach - 01/25/07 08:06 PM
Where I operate from, the County of Northumberland ON, we get a lot of agents from outside the area listing homes, particularly premium or carriage trade properties. The felling amongst many sellers for these properties is that you need to have a "big city" agent in order to attract the attention of "big money" buyers. Yet, for all the logic involved in leaping to that assumption, "big money" buyers who want to move somewhere specific are going to be looking to that somewhere specific to find their next home.
What this means of course is that while the homes are listed by agents … (0 comments)
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Stephen Hodge
Cobourg,
ON
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Address: 74 Bramley St. S (Home Office), Port Hope, ON, L1A 3K4
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