barrie real estate: Barrie and area October 2009 Real Estate Market Activity - 11/18/09 03:37 PM
MLS® home sales activity rises to October record
MLS® home sales activity climbed to the highest level on record for the month of October in the area served by the Barrie District Association of REALTORS® Inc. Improving demand and fewer new listings continue to firm up the market.
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barrie real estate: Barrie and area September 2009 Real Estate Market Activity - 10/20/09 10:51 AM
media release from BDAR President, Wendy Elzner.
MLS® home sales activity reached the highest level ever for the month of September in the area served by the Barrie District Association of REALTORS® Inc. Improving demand and fewer new listings continue to draw down inventories.
According to statistics provided
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barrie real estate: Ontario Real Estate Investment - Where, when and what? - 10/15/09 10:14 AM
Real Estate investment in Ontario or elsewhere requires some basic considerations during the where when and what stages. The interview below with Don Campbell, head of the Real Estate Investment Network considers these factors and their results in our current economic climate. Some of REIN's conclusions bode well for Barrie Ontario.(hear
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barrie real estate: Barrie Real Estate amongst best in Canada for investment - 10/13/09 01:14 AM
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barrie real estate: So where are the Barrie real estate deals in wake of the recession? - 09/22/09 08:20 PM
As we reached a point early in 2008 where Canadian news media began to report that we too were now seeing the symptoms of recession in our own economy, Realtors began to wonder how bad it might get and just what the business of Real Estate was about to
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barrie real estate: Barrie and area August 2009 Real Estate Market Activity - 09/09/09 12:54 PM
media release from BDAR President, Wendy Elzner.
Home sales activity remains strong in August
MLS® home sales activity in August 2009 was up from year-ago levels for the third consecutive month in the area served by the Barrie District Association of REALTORS® Inc. Meanwhile, active and new listings continued retreating
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barrie real estate: Fine South East Barrie 3 Bedroom Home - 08/31/09 08:51 PM
$389900.
Three Bedroom upscale residence for about the price of a GTA "Fixer Upper". A five minute drive east down Big Bay Point Road from highway 400 sits this community of newer homes. This home boasts high ceilings, a mix of slate and and hard wood floors and a
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barrie real estate: Barrie and area July 2009 Real Estate market activity - 08/10/09 12:08 PM
media release from BDAR President, Wendy Elzner.
Home sales activity remains strong in July
MLS® home sales activity in the area served by the Barrie District Association of REALTORS® Inc. was up from year-ago levels for the second consecutive month in July 2009. Meanwhile, active listings continued to retreat from
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barrie real estate: Canada - Economic perspective - 07/27/09 09:41 PM
Nice recovery
Kevin Press - Sun Life Financial
July 27, 2009
The recession is over. It was steep, the worst since the Second World War. But it was brief, lasting just three quarters. Compare that to the 1990-92 recession, which lingered for eight quarters. Before that, the 1981-82 downturn went
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barrie real estate: Real Estate Guru Chris Leader discusses the Barrie market and shares some important tips on hiring a Realtor - 07/13/09 08:13 PM
Known and respected by Realtors in hundreds of markets throughout North America where he teaches his Leaders Edge Training seminars, Professional Real Estate trainer Chris Leader knows the industry as well as anyone.
Have a listen as he talks about our current market in Canada and in his home town of
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barrie real estate: Home equity investments, offsetting post secondary education costs and more Real E$tate advi$e - 06/29/09 01:33 PM
Listen as Shelley and Mike share a few of the best investment tips you are likely to hear this year. You don't have to be Donald Trump to begin changing your current and future financial status. The home you live in now can provide you shelter in more ways
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barrie real estate: Barrie couple, Purchase dream home and sell current home all in one week - 06/21/09 07:10 PM
We found Stan, Janet and Blair's dream home on a thursday last month and negotiated a great purchase price and closing terms. We listed their current Barrie home the following tuesday and received an acceptable offer two days later on the following thursday.
Stan Janet and Blair can't wait for their
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barrie real estate: Mike and Shelley look at the Barrie spring 2009 mortgage and real estate market - 05/02/09 10:27 PM
The credit crises in the US has had a lesser impact on the Canadian Real Estate Market. The spring market in 2009 is showing some signs of stress but also opportunity for those looking to buy a home. Listen to what Shelley Black of Mortgage Alliance in Barrie had to say
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barrie real estate: Barrie School information - 04/19/09 03:38 PM
Schools are the number one consideration of home buyers with children.The urban planning behind the City of Barrie has given easy access by its residents to schools and other community resources. Most of Barrie's elementary and secondary students live within walking distance of their schools. Have a look at the interactive
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barrie real estate: Is your mortgage due for a tune up? - 04/17/09 11:06 PM
When's the last time you thought about your mortgage? Do you know your rate? Do you know when your term is up for renewal? Do you know what happens if you don't renew your mortgage? Many Canadians don't. It's no wonder when it comes time to renew a mortgage, many
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barrie real estate: Barrie area Power of Sale listings present opportunity for buyers and investors - 04/17/09 11:02 PM
A bitter reality of the economic changes we have been going through is the growing number of homes up for sale, repossessed by the lenders and listed under power of sale. At any time in the past ten years the number of power of sale listings registered through the Barrie and
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barrie real estate: :: RRSP withdraw limit for home purchase raised in February federal budget :: - 04/13/09 01:39 PM
Canada’s Economic Action Plan addresses something myself and members of the Realtor’s Political Action Committee have been pushing government for for a few year now. The Feds have finally increase the RRSP withdraw amount from $20,000 to $25,000 to purchase a home. Additionally the recent budget adds as much as
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barrie real estate: :: The Barrie spring Real Estate market is warming ahead of the weather :: - 04/07/09 10:32 AM
The weather in the first week of April is as confused as the Robins and those optimistic drivers who took their snow tires off in March.The Real Estate market has been about as predictable as the weather has been over the past year. Finally the buzz around my office has
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barrie real estate: :: Real Estate 2008 - Barrie year in review :: - 12/15/08 09:56 AM
Discussing the highs and lows of the year as it draws to a close along with preparing plans of action for the next year's market are annual rituals of the Realtor. Another is attempting to forecast the Real Estate market for the coming year in so far as how it
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barrie real estate: :: Real Estate 2009 - What Barrie can expect :: - 12/15/08 09:52 AM
The year will finish up with about 400,000 home sales Canada wide (down 15%) and with overall home prices down 3% nationally with a further 2% drop anticipated before prices begin to rebound. In Barrie the impact on price has again been mainly in the over $27500 range with average detached
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