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Ottawa Real Estate Market Heating Up

Statistically speaking the Ottawa Real Estate Market is heating up. Check out my chart below. A quick review reveals that # of sales have increased, $ value of the total sales has increased, average sales price increased, # of days on market has decreased, new listings taken has decreased, inventory ...

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What Sellers must disclose about a home? Patent defects vs. Latent defects.

I get asked this question often when listing a home. “Should I disclose about the “fill in the blank”? My simple answer is “disclose, disclose, disclose”. I will then follow up with asking the Seller “What would you want to know about your home before purchasing it?” With most clients ...

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7 deadly sins of property investment

With today’s investment climate delivering sub-par returns I am being approached by many clients to investigate purchasing an income property.  I recently came across the following article from Paul Kondakos of the website www.realtyhub.ca . I thought it summed things up fairly concisely. Thanks to Paul it is republished with ...

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Does your home smell….bad?

Clients are always asking me what they can do to make their home more saleable. One of the easiest ways of improving the desirability is to make sure your home isn’t undesirable to a prospective Buyer. So what is the first thing which greets us when we enter a home?  Even ...

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