toronto listings: Barrie offers twice the bang for half the buck to home buyers over the GTA
- 04/20/12 12:48 AM
The Barrie area spring real estate market is different from last year's yet again. April and May are traditionally the busiest months of the year for new listings and buyer activity. This year is busier to date than last year which was also slower at this point than the previous year. Last years market got off to a late start where as this year, the buyers started out early. This year the demand for housing dramatically increased in February at record levels in a month when traditionally most Realtors have yet to see their own shadows. March and April so far has (0 comments)
I went down to Etobicoke earlier this week to visit friends who were quite proud to show me their newly purchased home. "We beat out two other families who were bidding against us" My friend Mark said as we walked to the single car detached garage set at the back of the yard. The house is a modestly sized brick bungalow built in the forties or fifties judging by the milk door beside the side door entrance off the driveway and the burnt red coloured brick and aluminium framed sliding bedroom windows. A family on the neighbouring back patio watched studiously through the chain length fence (1 comments)