We interrupt his blog to bring you a little shameless self-promotion. First, let us say that we love most of our fellow REALTORS® around here. They are a good bunch. But this is not about them (sorry guys). For a few years now, we’ve been working hard to keep you in-the-know about everything to do [...]
Many of our clients come to see property for sale in Collingwood and area but often get lost. (Right Murray?) Most seem to know where Cranberry Village is but that’s about it. Well, you can find your way around even if you don’t have a GPS. Go to Google, type in the address you are [...]
My first real estate advisor was my Dad. He used to say that when you buy a home, make sure it’s one that “first your foes lived in, then your friends and then you.” The idea was that a new house has deficiencies that can cause frustrations while subsequent owners add to and perfect a [...]
The internet has revolutionized the way we do business and for the most part, I think it’s a wonderful tool. What I can’t stand, though, is spam and the people who mine the web for email addresses or names. One of the things I do is to syndicate my listings to numerous sites such as [...]
In the Nipissing Ridge area of Craigleith, there is a road named Blueski George. I’ve often wondered how this unusual name came to be and recently, I found out. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had the good fortune of speaking with Mr. George Fleming who is the developer of that area. After [...]
I knew it would happen some day but here it is now thanks to Matthew Collinge in Vancouver Actually, it’s kind of flattering Matthew so thanks and I hope I don’t bore you too much. A meme is like a blog chain letter first started by Mary McKnight at RSS pieces (which is a pretty [...]
Like most towns, the housing stock in Collingwood and area ranges in age from brand new to well over 100 years old. For buyers looking for a home to buy, the age is often a factor in identifying what original components have been replaced and which ones may need to be replaced. The age of [...]
With the Spring Market now here, it’s timely to talk about getting your home ready to sell. Did you know that most buyers make a real decision about a house purchase in the first eleven to fifteen seconds of seeing a property? By then they will already have developed a perception of your property that [...]
You know what drives me nuts? Bad real estate photos on listings or even more so, having no photos at all. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a lack of pictures can actually cost sellers lost money! With today’s inexpensive point and shoot digital cameras, there is no excuse for anyone not to have [...]
A real estate broker in the U.S. has the following advice for buyers: find listings with no photos and save money. Huh? Last year, Frank Borges LLosa, a Virginia REALTOR®, spent some time going over a whole bunch of his local MLS® statistics and listings to see how photos affect the sales of homes in his area. [...]
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