selling houses in Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge
Is there any difference between a client and customer in real estate? What is a buyer agency (representation) and buyer customer service? Searching for a home, most buyers sign a Buyer Representation Agreement (BRA) after realtors explain them the difference. BRA is a legal agreement, but it is not a legal requirement to sign it […]
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What we should know about coming cannabis legislation? In light of the upcoming cannabis legislation this October many landlords update leasing documents. The main reason is to ensure acceptable standards of property and to avoid conflict among the tenant (if it is a multi-family home). When cannabis becomes legal, its use will be as legal
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In the beginning of August Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors released a regular report of July sales (2018) in the region of Waterloo. Before to go to numbers, I would like to mark general trends in our local residential real estate. At least how we can see them at this point, and what might be interested
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People decide to move for many reasons – relocation because of a better job, a growing family, a better neighbourhood, etc. Once you decide moving makes sense to you, you have to decide whether it makes more sense to buy first or sell first. During home and selling process, you will have to make another
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Working as a full time realtor, I’ve heard this questions hundreds of times – what is better for us to do – to buy or sell first? The answer depends on a current market performance. We agree that selling takes strategy, and buying takes experience. Before to start your real estate purchase or sale, make
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Let us look at Kitchener-Waterloo homes sales in the previous month, and how this statistics looks in a historical context. According to KWAR (Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Relators) May 2018 was quite active – 12.5% up compared to April 2018, and down 15.3% compared to May 2017. All of us still remember the frenzy sales in
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Current federal legislation will allow inhabitants to grow up to four plants inside their homes starting from July this year. There are concerns that buyers and sellers of residential real estate maybe harmed because of this law. Harvesting cannabis indoors even on a small scale leads to high humidity and temperatures inside. This creates the
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Owning a property, it also means to have neighbours. I will agree with a saying that a good neighbour increases the value of your property. The other expression states that good fences make good neighbours. But a good fence always means at least one condition that it is on a correct boundary (property) line. Is
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April 2018 home sales were almost 14% higher than in March, but down 19.6% compared to April last year. It would be fair to add that home sales in April 2017 were record breaking number. According to KWAR president “KW home sales in April were as brisk as the temperatures”. What was interesting to see
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We already talked about walkability in out earlier post – Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge neighbourhoods with highest Walk Score. Let’s look how walkability affects home prices. The basic theory in real estate is that the more attractive the location, the higher the value of the home. Since 2007 The Real Estate Investment Network (REIN) released
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