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The 5 Secret Benefits of Good Pricing
September 21, 2024
Faster Sale. When your home sells faster, you save on carrying costs (the mortgage payment, property taxes, utilities and other costs of ownership). A quicker sale creates less inconvenience for you. If you've sold a home before, you know the energy it takes to prepare for showings: keeping the home meticulously clean, making child care and pet ...
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Seller’s Info
September 20, 2024
Whether you’re planning to sell your home in the next few months or just studying up for that eventuality, there’s no time like now to prepare. If buying a house seems complicated, selling involves even more responsibilities and expenses.
Here are some common steps to selling your home:
1. Prepare Your Home for Sale
Well before you’re ...
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Home staging mistakes
September 6, 2024
Here, from interior decorator and home staging expert Gabriele Campbell, are 10 common mistakes sellers make when preparing their house for sale. Her new book on how to sell your home, written with Greg Tonn, will be published this month.
1: Just because you love it does not mean everyone else will. Ensure your property appeals to the broadest ...
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Recouping your remodeling costs
September 4, 2024
As homeowners consider where to spend money on their homes in 2010, the latest Remodeling Cost vs. Value Report reveals that the most cost-effective home improvement projects are small in scale. Seven of the top ten projects that will recoup the most money for homeowners are improvements to the exterior of a home that cost under $15,000. ...
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Five tips to know before buying
August 17, 2024
Every year thousands of condo buyers call our advisors looking for help out of a sticky situation resulting from a uninformed condo purchase. As the buying season fires up, buyers need to take a few simple steps to avoid disappointment and unanticipated costs. Here are five specific situations buyers have encountered in the past month alone.
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Sellers need solid game plan
August 2, 2024
It may be too late to make that list for Santa, but if you're considering moving anytime soon, start with a list, says the author of a new book on how to prepare your home for sale.
Aylmer Hull Gatineau | Quebec | Gatineau Real Estate Listings | Homes For Sale | Home Buying Selling | Agent Listings | MLS Realty | ...
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Seller refuses to make agreed-upon repairs
July 30, 2024
Q: We were supposed to close on a house a week ago. The day before the scheduled closing, we went out to the house and noticed that the seller did not fix the heating system as we agreed in the contract.
We gave the seller a one-week extension. It is now the day before the revised closing date and he has not yet fixed the problem. Our lease is ...
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THE IMPACT OF MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ON MATTERS RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE
July 27, 2024
Certain every-day situations in the lives of married couples may have an impact on real estate brokerage.
It is important to note that the situations described in this article do not apply to common-law partners. For common-law relationships, you must refer to the rules of civil law, particularly those relating to undivided ...
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Home buyers looking for green element, survey says
July 25, 2024
Environmentally friendly home improvements have become a huge factor in home buyer shopping lists, a new survey suggests, and will likely yield a solid return on investment come selling time.
Almost three quarters (72 per cent) of the 1,266 Canadians asked in the latest Eco Home Survey by real estate company Royal LePage said they will look for ...
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Single Women Buy Homes, Too!
July 22, 2024
Record numbers of single women are buying homes. If you're a single woman who wants to buy a house, the good news is the market is wide open for you. The stats from the Joint Center for Housing Studies say:
•More than one in five home buyers is a single woman.
•Twice as many unmarried women are buying homes than single men.
•Single women ...
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