http://keithmarshall.ca Excellence in Real Estate! Serving Kitchener, Waterloo and surrounding with the real estate tools, skills and experience to make your dreams come true! Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/139-brighton-street-waterloo/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/139-brighton-street-waterloo/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:42:51 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3237 139 Brighton Street, Waterloo (Unit 8B) recently sold. Alasdair and I had the pleasure of acting as the selling agents for 8B-139 Brighton Street in Waterloo. This property is a delightful two-storey condominium apartment/townhouse style home, convenient to Uptown Waterloo, both Universities and Waterloo Park. It is so convenient it achieves a walkscore of 78! Click here to [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/139-brighton-street-waterloo/feed/ 0 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-this-week-february-18-2012/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-this-week-february-18-2012/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:28:50 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3209 King and Louisa Development Kitchener Waterloo saw a lot of Real Estate news this week. A new 8 storey multi-residential building and a 3 unit multiple dwelling unit is being planned for the corner of King and Louisa Streets in Kitchener. This is consistent with our mixed-use and intensification objectives. I predict we’ll be seeing a [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-this-week-february-18-2012/feed/ 0 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/5-reasons-why-the-house-market-in-waterloo-region-wont-crash/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/5-reasons-why-the-house-market-in-waterloo-region-wont-crash/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:43:06 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3199 Often when I’m talking with people about real estate (everyone loves talking about real estate) someone will say something like “the housing market is going to crash”. I always have to disagree. And here’s why. 1) We are the USA. Things crashed there, especially in Florida and parts of Arizona and California. The subprime mortgages [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/5-reasons-why-the-house-market-in-waterloo-region-wont-crash/feed/ 0 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/this-week-in-kw-real-estate-january-11-2012/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/this-week-in-kw-real-estate-january-11-2012/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:02:46 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3192 Mortgage Battle Cools Down Just a couple weeks after the major banks lowered mortgage interest rates to an historic low of 2.99%, RBC blinked first and rose again their rates by 40 points. The others quickly followed suit. Fixed rate mortgages are strongly tied to bold yields. It appears that the economic recovery is finally [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/this-week-in-kw-real-estate-january-11-2012/feed/ 0 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/122-mansion-street-in-kitcheners-east-ward/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/122-mansion-street-in-kitcheners-east-ward/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:10 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3175 122 Mansion Street, Kitchener is an executive town home located in the heart of Kitchener’s East Ward. This beautiful and spacious condo townhouse has two bedrooms, a den, a large open concept kitchen, dining room and living area. There are two bathrooms. On the 2nd floor, upstairs, you’ll find the well designed, bright and airy [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/122-mansion-street-in-kitcheners-east-ward/feed/ 1 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/looking-for-a-home-in-kitchener-waterloo-where-to-start/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/looking-for-a-home-in-kitchener-waterloo-where-to-start/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:17 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3164 If you’re looking for a home in Kitchener Waterloo and don’t know where to start, you should start with a lender and a real estate agent. You know yourself that after you’ve been doing a job for awhile, it becomes easier. The same is true with real estate. Good agents know the answers, the process [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/looking-for-a-home-in-kitchener-waterloo-where-to-start/feed/ 0 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/this-week-in-kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-february-4-2012/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/this-week-in-kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-february-4-2012/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:51:25 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3156 Stated Income Home Buyers hit first Last week in Kitchener Waterloo real estate’s weekly look at the housing market in Canada and in Kitchener Waterloo, I reported that the the mortgage rules were about to change. They did. CIBC is the first bank to no longer accept new applications from so-called “stated-income” homebuyers. If other [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/02/this-week-in-kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-february-4-2012/feed/ 2 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/bank-regulators-take-aim-at-condo-market/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/bank-regulators-take-aim-at-condo-market/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:35:15 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3150 The Globe and Mail today reported that Canada’s banking regulators are worried that real estate investors are getting over-exposed in the condo market in Toronto and Vancouver. They are looking at lending practices, concerned that long-term home equity lines of credit used to finance investment property purchases are reaching the point where consumers may not [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/bank-regulators-take-aim-at-condo-market/feed/ 0 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/this-week-in-kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-january-27-2012/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/this-week-in-kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-january-27-2012/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:28:16 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3145 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 [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/this-week-in-kitchener-waterloo-real-estate-january-27-2012/feed/ 3 http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/what-ive-learned-from-seth-godin/ http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/what-ive-learned-from-seth-godin/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:48:31 +0000 Keith Marshall http://keithmarshall.ca/?p=3139 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 [...]]]> http://keithmarshall.ca/2012/01/what-ive-learned-from-seth-godin/feed/ 0