Toronto Selling Tips

Looking ahead to next year, condo buyers in the greater Toronto area need to begin considering the effects of the upcoming 13% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), scheduled to go into effect in July, 2010.  This new tax represents a combination of the 5% national Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the 8% Provincial Sales Tax [...]

Congratulations!  Your house has finally sold and you are relieved to have that huge step out of the way.  But what comes next?  What are the steps you need to take between now and the time you actually move out of the home and into a new place?  Putting in some time and effort in [...]

Choosing a selling agent for your toronto home is a big decision because your agent is a key player in all aspects of the sale of your property.  Unfortunately, many toronto home owners don’t pay enough attention to spending enough time and asking the right questions to choose the best selling agent for their needs.
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Many sellers love the thoughts of multiple offers on their homes.  This does happen often, when the housing market is going strong.  When there are not enough listings of homes to meet the demand – it’s quite possible to receive multiple offers.  When this happens, a bidding war can often ensue, driving up the price [...]

Developed by the US Green Building Council, or USGBC, LEED is a system of certifying certain homes as efficient or sustainable.  The regulations provide a set of guidelines for builders to follow as they construct – keeping in mind the eco-friendly and green practices like saving energy and water, reducing CO2 emissions, improving indoor environmental [...]

Awareness of our impact on the environment is spreading, and it’s more complicated than not recycling.  The water we use each day, the energy we demand and the CO2 emissions we put off are all having their effect on our environment.  With this knowledge is the desire to do something about it and one of [...]

There is more involved in selling a home than simply listing it and waiting.  Like anything, the house must be shown in the best possible way so that visitors will want to purchase it.  There are several things that go into staging and preparing a house so that it will sell quickly, including repairs, cleaning [...]

Step 8: Launching the Marketing
Once the home has been staged, the marketing plan has been finalized, the marketing materials prepared, the feature sheets printed, and the custom site built it is time to launch. At this point another contract is signed for the MLS listing.
The first step in launching the marketing is loading the listing [...]

Step 7: Marketing Planning Period
Once the photographs have been taken you are ready to plan your marketing and start to pull together all of the different marketing materials. There are many different tools that I will use to market a property. Depending on the home and the target market I will pick and choose [...]

Step 4: Disclosures
While the house is being staged the Agent should coordinate some of the other prep work for the marketing of the property. This work includes a pre-inspection if it is a house or ordering the Status Certificate from the property manager if it is a condo. While the Agent is doing this the [...]