barrie real estate: Use Facebook to stay close to the Barrie and area Real Estate market
- 02/11/11 05:10 AM
"Don't underestimate the power of social media in getting the job done" Join the Barrie Real Estate Page and open up a pipeline to up to date local Real Estate news, advice and market reports Click the image above to get started … (0 comments)
2010 will be remembered by many in the Real Estate industry as the year the market came back to earth. Old timers will see it as the end of another cycle in the market while newer Realtors who came into the business within the past ten years are adjusting to a different pace.The past ten years has seen year after year interest rate drops and year after year home value increases that out performed many blue chip stocks. We saw years of steady exodus by families from the greater Toronto area to more affordable lifestyles in the Barrie area and home … (3 comments)
Being one in an industry represented by over 850 Realtors now working in the Barrie area alone, raises an important question for me... How does one stand out in a sea of over 850 Realtors all vying for your business and at the same time retain at least some dignity? Here are a few things I won't do. I'm not going to phone you while you are sitting down to dinner with your family or unwinding from your day just to remind you I am here should you ever need me. I know what it is like to be on the … (8 comments)
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How the housing market found a trough and where it is headed
Still confused on how HST affects home buying?, this video should help
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barrie real estate: Just call me Dr. House
- 12/19/10 03:52 AM
Right up there with our physical health, our financial health is our next most burning concern isn't it? This would explain why any time any place, people keep asking me what their house is worth. I should know, after all I am a Realtor. I walk amongst the oracles of acreage whose civic duty it is to appraise and apprise at the whim of all who approach. I found myself seated at a table with three couples a few weeks back, a dinner honoring those involved with fund raising efforts for our local hospital expansion. A table circled by one Realtor, three Doctors … (2 comments)
barrie real estate: Great Simcoe County Mortgage and Home Inspection services
- 11/17/10 12:23 PM
My thanks to Peter Frueh - Simcoe Home Inspections and Shelley Black - Mortgage Alliance for sharing their time and professional insights this week. Two great local spokespersons for their respective industries. See what they had to share in January on Eye on Real Estate on Rogers TV http://www.simcoehomeinspectionsvc.com/StaffProfiles.aspx?ID=457362 http://www.mortgagealliancebarrie.com/about.htm
How well are Canadian home owners dealing with their mortgage debt?
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barrie real estate: Barrie Real Estate Stats show a buyer's market is shaping up
- 11/06/10 08:14 AM
Residential sales numbered 277 units in October 2010, down 29 per cent from the record month of October last year. On a seasonally adjusted basis, home sales were up for the third consecutive month. The one per cent month-over-month gain in October builds on increases of 10 per cent in both August and September. “Demand is showing further signs of stabilizing at more sustainable levels, but year-over-year comparisons continue to be stretched by the record level activity we saw last fall,”said Catherine Garbe, President of the Barrie and District Association of REALTORS®. “It’s a more relaxed marketplace compared to the beginning of the year, … (1 comments)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Barrie Ontario November 29th, 2010 Simcoe County Realtor Mike Montague is lending voice to local real estate and the people for whom home ownership is a current or future endeavor. In a new weekly TV show called Eye on Real Estate, hosted on Rogers TV, Mike will be visiting a different Simcoe County community each week talking with municipal leaders, and people on the street about their personal passions, concerns and anticipations for the place they call home. The show gives people an up close look at the real estate market and the purchase and sales … (4 comments)
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barrie real estate: Barrie and area home sales were up in August over previous month
- 09/16/10 07:28 AM
Residential property sales recorded through the MLS® System of the Barrie & District Association ofREALTORS® Inc. remained below year-ago levels in August 2010, but were up compared to the previous month. Meanwhile, new listings continue to ease in response to softer demand, which is helping to keep the market in balance. Residential sales numbered 330 units in August 2010, down 16 per cent from a year earlier. The decline was just half the size of the drop in July. This was reflected in the seasonally adjusted figure, which rose nine per cent compared to levels reported in the previous month. … (1 comments)
When investing in real estate, sometimes it’s necessary to look beyond your own backyard. The Real Estate Investment Network (REIN), a national organization of investors, has compiled what it says are the top 10 Canadian cities in which to invest. Few are major cities and some are surprising. Don Campbell, president of REIN, as well as one.... Read more: http://bit.ly/bfRYoC
Residential property sales recorded through the MLS® System of the Barrie District Association of REALTORS® Inc. were down considerably in July 2010. A slowdown in demand in Ontario had been widely expected in July, with many purchases having been brought forward into the first half of the year in advance of the introduction of the HST.
Residential sales numbered 309 units in July 2010, down 31 per cent from the second best July on record last year. On a year-to-date basis, sales activity remains four per cent above levels reported in the first seven months of 2009.
The obvious reasons the Essa Woods project should not be given the green light, at least not at the scale proposed have all been stated and I agree totally with the concerns raised, specifically on the traffic issues that this will only amplify along one of the two existing thruway points from one side of the 400 highway to the other in south Barrie. Essa road is congested now and when the old raceway and former Molson Park lands are eventually developed, it will be further taxed. My bigger concern and one I have not heard raised is that this … (3 comments)
barrie real estate: Real Estate Investment - Don't be sold a bill of goods from so called "Investment experts"
- 07/23/10 07:26 AM
Real Estate with its potential for profit has always been bait used by some con artists looking to capitalize on other's lust for too-good-to-be-true deals. Most of us have heard about the Florida swamp land scams or similar transactions of property oversold in varying degrees. Just one more good reason to rely on the knowledge and resources of professionals and to execute full due diligence in any transaction of real property. Here are some of the typical scams many have fallen for. Click to read more about common real estate scams Another such critter to keep an eye out for isn't selling Terra firma per se, but instead, the promise of … (2 comments)
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