When looking for a place to call home, it’s easy to get sidetracked by thinking with your heart rather than your head. Although it takes less than seven seconds to make a first impression, a quick decision could lead to an unavoidable case of buyer’s remorse. In order to avoid this, we have listed a […]
The Offer Is Accepted, Now What? If you’re getting closer to accepting an offer on your home, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter! Once you receive an offer, you have a very important choice to make. You can choose to accept, reject or counter the offer. This decision […]
When you’ve decided to sell your home, each second that passes seems to bring another item to add to your already lengthy to-do list. On top of quick changes between being a home buyer and home seller, you spend hours sorting through article after article explaining how you can quickly sell your home for top […]
Whether it’s a condo in the city, or a brick home in the suburbs, the search for your dream home is an exciting time. For many prospective buyers, the period between the decision to buy and the day you get the keys to your new home takes a back seat to your dreams of the […]
When making purchases at the grocery store, mall, or even a local coffee shop, we’ve become accustomed to simply paying whatever the displayed price tag is. In real estate, that is not the case. Negotiation is a skill that real estate professionals practice daily and one that can mean the difference of thousands of dollars […]
RE/MAX surveyed Canadians to gather insight about their current home, household income and future purchasing plans. We identified some key home-buying and selling trends from coast to coast. Canadians’ appetite for home ownership is alive and well, with roughly half of Canadians planning to purchase within the next five years. This is just one insight […]
On January 1, new mortgage qualification rules took effect targeting uninsured mortgage borrowers. Here’s what you need to know about the new rules, and how they could impact Canada’s housing markets in 2018. Canada posted year-over-year residential price gains in 2017 across most regions. Now in 2018, many housing markets could see reduced purchasing power […]
The real estate market in Orleans continues to move extremely well to start the year off. We are seeing many well priced homes going into multiple offer situations and selling for over the asking price. These are homes that have been staged properly and marketed very aggressively. All of these homes were sold (Too Late®) […]
Low interest rates, population growth, investment and unprecedented equity gains all combined to spark one of the strongest decades for price appreciation in Ontario’s six largest housing markets. Between 2007 and 2017, the province’s six major housing markets experienced substantial growth despite some serious challenges that included a financial crisis and subsequent recession. RE/MAX found […]
In 2017, RE/MAX Hallmark Realtors sold 11,527 homes. This equated to 960 homes sold per month, 31.5 homes sold per day or 1.3 homes sold every 60 minutes! RE/MAX Hallmark Pilon Group Realty was the #1 RE/MAX Hallmark team in Ottawa in 2017 with over 240 homes sold. Give RE/MAX Hallmark Pilon Group Realty a […]