A good first time impression is key to selling your house! Your house must stand out to potential buyers from the moment they pull up to the curb and walk through the door. Staging, helps buyers to envision the property as their own. The results will bring higher bids and quicker sales.
Here are some great tips to help stage your home and help potential buyers see themselves moving in.

LEGO My House: How Many LEGOs Would It Take to Build Your House?

INFOGRAPHIC: When a family or individual purchases a home, there are direct and indirect ripple effects in the province and local economies. With any home purchase, there is more to the buyer’s and seller’s expenditures than the mortgage payment and closing costs.more…….

In spite of popular belief, buying a house in today’s real estate market is NOT a difficult task. Post the real estate melt down, consumers could have money and bad credit or good credit and no money, and still qualify for a mortgage. NOT TODAY!! Today, you MUST be prepared to buy a house. Unlike the mortgage industry of yesterday, you can’t just “flare-up” and decide to buy a house on the spot and actually get it. Today, you have to PLAN for it!

Questions to Ask Your Listing Agent

When you’re dealing with the big money involved in selling a house, you need to have complete confidence in the person handling the important details. After all, real estate isn’t your area of expertise, so you want to benefit from the experience and help of a professional. But how can you be sure you’re partnering with the best agent for your needs?

The ‘Manhattanization’ of Toronto will change family-housing dreams. Of the 6,005 condos ready for occupancy this year, 63 per cent are studios or one-bedrooms. The average size is 822 square feet. The 9,090 condos slated for completion in the former city of Toronto in 2014 are an average size of 695 square feet; 67 per cent are studios or one-bedroom units, according to a report by Urbanation. The developers in the downtown market are catering their product to investors, who are interested in smaller units that are easier to rent or flip. The larger the unit, the longer it takes to rent out or sell…..more

The Financial Considerations Of Building Source: Hannif Highclass c/o Genie Sabre Realty Inc. Publish:MY BLOG: Toronto Real Estate: May 21, 2011 Building versus buying is a major dilemma in the new home market. The freedom to make decisions about the details of your home and watch it take shape holds undeniable appeal.  But there’s also […]

When you buy a home that’s already been constructed, what you see is pretty much what you get. You can’t just wave a wand and magically rearrange the outlets or create new storage space. However, when you build a home for yourself, the floor plan is your oyster. You can incorporate as many useful features into the structure of the house as you want without worrying about costly installation fees.

Regardless of whether these installations are simply a few outlets on the mantle to help with Christmas decorating, or elaborately installed heated floors in the master bathroom, they’ll all make your home more comfortable and more valuable. So, if you plan on building a house this year, take a minute to consider incorporating these five helpful features into plans before you start construction.

Remodeling magazine’s “2008-2009 Cost vs. Value Report” confirms that the home renovation projects that will add the most value to your home (meaning that you are most likely to recoup the highest percentage of the project cost when you go to sell your home) are pricey big-ticket items such as replacing siding with fiber-cement ($13,177 with 87% cost recouped) or vinyl ($12,528 with 80% cost recouped) and adding a wood deck ($10,601 with 82% cost recouped).

But if those home renovations are beyond your price point and you’re looking at a budget of just $1,000 what should you invest in to get the most bang for your buck?

Celine Dion’s Laval, Quebec Mansion For Sale Source: Hannif Highclass Publish:MY BLOG: Toronto Real Estate: May 21, 2011 what you should expect Would you like to live in Celine Dion’s 24,000-square-foot, Quebec French-style chateau on a private island? It can be yours — furniture and all — for just $29.7-million. The Canadian songstress is selling […]