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Average Home Prices in Oshawa, Whitby and Clarington
Let’s take a quick look back in time to see where the values have been before we look at where they are currently. I began my career selling Real Estate in 1986. So long ago that the Real Estate Board does not have individual statistics from that prehistoric age. When I started our three communities…
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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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Buyers’ Market? Sellers’ Market? Balanced Market?
Buyers Market? Sellers Market? Or Balanced Market in Durham Region. Can Buyers finally catch a break? This week’s blog is focused on what has happened in the previous seven days. There are a lot of different things that are impacting the Real Estate market currently so let’s take a few minutes to see what is…
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An Opportunity for Real Estate Buyers (finally) in Oshawa, Whitby and Clarington
An Opportunity for Real Estate Buyers (finally) in Oshawa, Whitby and Clarington. Real estate has been the “talk of the town” for several years now. I was ordering a coffee this week and overheard a couple talking about an offer that they had submitted and were fingers crossed they were successful. You can’t go anywhere…
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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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Is the Real Estate Market Cooling Down?
…or is it just winter? I returned from a Real Estate conference in Arizona on Monday. It was wonderful to be in a new area surrounded by some of the best Realtors in the USA. (I believe Wendy Starr and I were the only Canadians.) One thing we quickly came to understand was that every…
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Current Real Estate Prices in Oshawa, Whitby and Clarington. Cherry-picking the sales.
Where are we currently with pricing locally? Here is a snapshot of prices for all homes along with detached homes singled out as of Feb 22/22… 2-22-22 has a ring to it: Oshawa: All homes – $1,176,000 Detached – $1,223,000Whitby: All homes – $1,239,000 Detached – $1,567,000Clarington: All homes – $1,223,000 Detached – $1,263,000 To…
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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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Finding Links between Durham Real Estate and Manhattan Real Estate
Think south Oshawa, or downtown Whitby or even that odd area in Bowmanville that floods every time Lake Ontario surges…. Then think a bachelor co-op in Brooklyn Heights. How is it possible to find similarities in these communities? Hang with me for a few minutes. Buyers. Buyers of homes in Durham and Manhattan use the…
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