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Getting your Barrie home listing price right is more important than ever
The fury of the 2011 spring real estate market has faded in Barrie. Many homes were sold yet many more remain on the market picked over by buyers much more knowledgeable of the market than the average Barrie buyers of the last decade.
 
It was pretty much taken for granted in the first eight or so of my eleven years as a Realtor, that on any given weekend there would be hundreds of excited home buyers coming up from the Greater Toronto Area to take advantage of the lower priced homes they had heard about in our market. Many over that time would come up and buy in the same day which allowed for many over priced homes to find a buyer. Once an over priced home sold it set a new president on price for any comparable homes yet to be listed and this in effect is what drove home values up by double digit percentage rates again and again in the last decade. While it was happening here it was (and still is) happening at even greater rates in many parts of the GTA.
With a combination of increasing fuel costs, a softening of economic growth and the reduction in consumer confidence brought on for the most ... more

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