
There was a lot of news about the housing market last week and all of it good. Well good but cautionary really. House Prices First of all house prices are expected to keep rising this year. According to a report by Royal Lepage, Prudential Real Estate’s sister company, Canada’s housing market will continue to [...]
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As both a long time marketer and blogger, one of my favorite daily reads is Seth Godin. He wrote the other day that he was picking out the mat for a framed photo and there were a thousand colors to choose from. The framer uttered the scary invocation, “It’s completely up to you” putting the [...]
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Alasdair and I were holding a couple of open houses over this past weekend. There are a couple of things we learned and the impressions we got from our visitors that we’d like to share. One of the main impressions from conversations we had this weekend was that people are struggling to understand property values [...]
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…and how is this related to real estate? In the dark of night in your local supermarket, from canned vegetables and salad dressing to fresh fruit and deli meats, countless items are being removed from store shelves. They are expired or expiring, past their prime. What happens to them? Much of the meat and, fruit [...]
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I was in the sauna at my club when one of the other members commented that he was waiting for the home prices to go down before buying his next house. I had to tell him that housing prices are not going down. They’re going up. I think maybe his problem was that he wasn’t [...]
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