Our daily lives are dramatically impacted by the liveability of the community we live in. Access to transit, our civic spaces, community amenities and the form of new development around us impact us the way building heights, trees and sidewalks more obviously do. The Town of Collingwood is unde
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03/21/2009
Have you ever been to Blue Mountain? Is so, then hopefully you've visited the enchanting little town of Thornbury along the way. If not, do yourself a favour and pay a visit soon. It's a scenic and delightful town that sits on the shores of Georgian Bay with the Beaver River running through town
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03/08/2009
The local real estate market for Collingwood, Blue Mountain and surrounding areas showed some minor improvement over the past month compared to the previous 3 months. Overall, sales YTD are still well below last year by about 50% in the number of unit sales. Following Januarys pattern, it was ag
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03/04/2009
Could you pass a short quiz about mortgage basics? Most people can't which is a bit frightening when you consider how many of them carry a mortgage that likely represents the biggest portion of their financial portfolio. In the recent federal budget, there is a proposal to start a financial lit
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03/02/2009
Today, we present another guest post written by my ever-so-talented assistant, Chris. (She sure writes better than I do!) It was precipitated by showing her the picture below of a laneway of a chalet in Blue Mountain that I tried to show. The four foot icy snowbank was a show stopper. How can
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02/22/2009
I could write a book about closing day stories. Some that were perfect, some that were funny and some that were nightmares. I remember one situation where my buyer clients called me up at about 6:00 pm on the closing day saying, "Marg, we're in the driveway with our moving truck and it would ap
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02/19/2009
Back about 18 months ago, I can clearly remember thinking that things would change in the real estate market. Fast sales, multiple offers, interest rates, home prices... they'd all change. After twenty years in the business, I've seen enough changing cycles of the market to know that nothing eve
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02/10/2009
The local real estate market followed national trends by posting the lowest number of monthly sales in over a decade. The 46 sales reported in the Georgian Triangle last month represents a drop of 59% over January, 2008 and is lower than December 2008's 53 sales. One interesting and slightly sur
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02/05/2009
A few weeks ago, I learned a lesson in the obvious. It was a lesson about how easily we can sometimes take things forgranted. While showing properties in Blue Mountain to some buyers who were here from Asia, one of them asked me what the difference was between a cottage and a chalet. It seems t
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02/03/2009
Although it's now February, people are still asking about prices in our various neighbourhoods in the Georgian Triangle. So, in the spirit of wrapping up the 2008 statistics, here is a chart showing the change in the average sale prices between 2007 and 2008 by area: Please do remember that ave
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02/01/2009
