Greg's Real Estate Blog

If you want to maximize the value of your home when you sell, you will need to put energy into preparing your home for the market. Depending on how much time you have spent on keeping the property in top shape, there will be a varying number of things needed to make your home show its best. Here ...

Previously I discussed negotiating for real estate so that you could understand the basics of how to be successful making a deal with the vendor.  I now want to delve a little deeper into the subject. A buyer needs to know the answer to this important question before making an offer.  “Will there...

Today I joined a website that solicits the listings of Real Estate Agents and purports to promote them on over 100 different websites on the internet.  Have you ever seen this?  Do you have an opionon about it's effectiveness?  This listing network is supposedly a free service.  However the basic...

Are you looking to live comfortably in a quiet community not far from the city?  Here is a very lovely home for a couple who want everything just "Tickety Boo"!  Go for walk around the block and you will notice the area is one of the nicest places to live in Portugal Cove. Take the canoe out on N...

Last week the ice rolled in around Newfoundland’s east coast.  Released from the Arctic each spring, the northern pack ice makes its pilgrimage to our shores bringing with it cool air, an abundance of seals and on rare occasion a lost and rather hungry polar bear.  On those occasions the disorien...

A Realtor from Greater Vancouver just posted this on his blog.  Please Help Me Invest 50 Million Euros.  This request comes by way of an email he received from a prospective buyer.  OK, I am calling him/her/it a prospective buyer but I use the term with my eyes rolling over in my sockets.  You wi...

How much effort should you make to succeed?  How hard should you push the ball up the hill?  How long should you keep going before calling it quits?  I suspect that most if not all of us have been tempted to throw in the towel from time to time.  When we run into a headwind, our natural inclinati...