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When Experience Matters in Real Estate
Let’s get honest for a few minutes. Our market is shifting, and we don’t know how long the shift will hang around. It might be a few months like we saw in 2017 or a 13 year drought after the housing market went sideways in 1991. However, there is some data that can shed light…
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Buying Netflix Stock in today’s market
There is a tie-in to Real Estate if you stay with me for a few minutes. In February if you decided to buy one Netflix share you would have paid $457. Today, you would pay $194. If someone suggested that you would pay a higher amount you would laugh. The prices for Real Estate are…
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Flipping Houses in Oshawa, Whitby and Clarington
I recently sold a home in Oshawa and the story behind another similar home in the neighborhood had me digging in to how “flips” work. I thought I would share my research into what happened to the home down the street from the one I was asked to help sell. I am going to keep…
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Real Estate Market Confusion. Bear Market? Bull Market? Beer Market? Buy? Sell? What should you do??
There is a common saying in business; “Success Leaves Clues.” What this means is that to be successful in any endeavour, rather than re-inventing the wheel, if you research successful people and businesses you can come to understand why they, in such competitive environments succeed when others did not. I joke (on a pretty regular…
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Changing Interest Rates: An opportunity for Real Estate in Durham Region
The mortgage rates have jumped up over the past month by more than ½%. How is this change affecting the market?The easy way to look at it is to see how much the costs of carrying a mortgage have increased. Another approach when you lean into the question a bit deeper that might surprise you…
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Where do you go for Real Estate Advice in Durham Region?
Where do you go for Real Estate Advice in Durham Region? It was 2012 and my partner Wendy Starr was selling Real Estate in Phoenix, Arizona. She had an experience that is as relevant today as it was then. She was dealing with a Canadian investor offering on a townhome in Grayhawk, a golf course…
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How to interview a Real Estate Agent – Selling a Home in Durham Region
I was interviewing a client over the past week who was thinking of selling their home and I asked, what is a common question when I first sit down with Sellers; “how was your last Real Estate experience? Was it positive or negative?” Surprisingly, (or not surprisingly) many times the Seller mentions a negative experience…
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Do I need an Agent for an Open House?
We saw a welcomed change in how we market Real Estate at the first of this month. Once the January restrictions were altered, open houses were again allowed to take place. Over the past 2 years, open houses have been one of the restricted activities, being blocked more than they have been allowed. Personally, we…
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