Something relatively new to real estate in the past ten years is the private home selling company. The proposition of saving thousands of dollars is enough to catch the attention of anyone. The idea of listing a home for anywhere from $700 for a sign on the lawn and an ad on a website, to a coup
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06/18/2010
A real estate bubble is defined as a period of rapid increases in valuations of housing until they reach unsustainable levels relative to incomes and other economic elements, followed by a reduction in price levels. As the economic pendulum swings to and fro in Canada, in Barrie Ontario th
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06/17/2010
A call this evening to a friend I haven't talked to in a while began with "Hey what the hell happened to your fence?" The townhouse she lives in backs onto Mapleview Avenue in the south end of town where I happened be be driving earlier in the day. These homes were built with deep back yards of
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06/16/2010
Barrie at this point and time is in need of and in a position to provide some key economic growth. That future growth is likely to come through entrepreneurial enterprises that can only take place with stepped up efforts by municipal leaders to create an “ecosystem” that will stimulate this grow
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06/13/2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had e
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06/07/2010
Residential property sales recorded through the MLS® System of the Barrie District Association of REALTORS® Inc. were down from year-ago levels for the first time in a year in May 2010. The average price for homes sold via the Association’s MLS® System in the first five months of the year was
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06/04/2010
We know, you don't want a mortgage... you want a home! "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain" Vivian Greene Today is a great day to find out how you can qualify for a new mortgage or how you can restructure your existing mortgage to turn your
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06/04/2010
Barrie Ontario and the shores of Lake Simcoe to its north and south have made the Real Estate Investment Network's (REIN) new shortlist of top Canadian places to Invest in Real Estate http://bit.ly/9sGELH
06/02/2010
There are things I can recall from childhood and our parents generation you don't see today. One that merits positive regard was our parents fiscal responsibility, especially regarding the family home. Something that was common then was mortgage burning parties. This is one social gathering I h
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06/02/2010
Today I saw headlines regarding the Bank of Canada's rise of the national prime lending rate by .25%. All of these headlines were variations of the same theme like a coast to coast tsunami was heading our way. "Get set for...brace yourself for...my favorite was the Globe and Mail's headline th
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06/01/2010