Archive for the ‘Real Estate for the Over 50 Crowd’ Category
What to Expect when Selling Your Home
You have just put your home on the market and you are wondering what will happen next and what it might mean. If your home is well priced for today’s market, you should have a lot of showings in the first couple of weeks (8-12)- and an offer. If you don’t have a lot of […]
Clean Up The Landscaping
The snow has disappeared and now your landscaping (or lack of) is completely exposed. Curb appeal is what draws people in to your house in the first place so it’s pretty important. It doesn’t take much to spruce things up after the winter – a very light raking will improve the look of your lawn, […]
Ottawa Market Update, March 2014
The spring home buying and selling season is coming into bloom. Members of the Board sold 1,189 residential properties in March through the MLS® System, an increase of 2.5% over March of 2013. Things are heating up. The average sale price of residential properties, including condominiums, sold in March in the Ottawa area was $358,741, […]
What’s Happening in the Ottawa Condo Market?
In terms of new construction, with developers building new condo apartments left, right and centre – a very large 20% of completed units are sitting unsold. In the resale market, the inventory has grown from 9% in 2011 to 17% in 2012 and then to 20% in 2013. Units that have seen steady increases in […]
Ottawa Market Update For February, 2014
I think we are all wondering if Spring will ever come -or even more – if winter will ever end! Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 870 residential properties in February through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, compared with 903 in February 2013, a decrease of 3.7 per cent. This year […]
Home Staging
If you have made the decision to put your home up for sale, you naturally want to get the most money in the shortest time frame, with the least hassle. In today’s competitive market, you need all the edge you can get to accomplish this. Our home is our castle and in most cases we are […]
Pricing Your Home to Sell
The most important (and often the most difficult) challenge you will face in selling your home is how to price it. You certainly want a price that is competitive with prices of other properties on the market – no offers is NOT where you want to be – yet you want the price to be […]
Ottawa Market Update for January, 2014
In spite of the very cold weather, residential sales in January were virtually identical to last year. This is good news. One would have thought the bitter cold would keep folks snug in their homes. Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 589 residential properties in January through the Board’s Multiple Listing Service® system, […]
It’s a New Year!
It’s a new year and maybe time for a change. If you’ve been thinking about down-sizing, or right-sizing your home and are having difficulty with the BIG decision, I can help. It gives me a lot of pleasure to work with clients on big lifestyle changes and it gives me even greater pleasure to have […]
Ottawa Market Update
Happy 2014 to everyone! While the temperature outside is on the “cool” side, the Ottawa real estate market remains steady and balanced. Ottawa truly is a great place to call home. Looking at the whole of 2013, the number of homes sold through the Board’s MLS® system was 13,873, compared with 14,326 in 2012, a […]
From Kris' Blog 
Ottawa MLS® Market Shows Early Signs of a Buzzing Spring Market
The number of homes sold through the MLS® System of the Ottawa Real Estate Board totaled 1,165 units in March 2024. This was an increase of 10% from March 2023. Home sales were 21.5% below the five-year average and 15% below the 10-year average for the month of March. On a year-to-date basis, home sales ...
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