I was interviewing a client over the past week who was thinking of selling their home and I asked, what is a common question when I first sit down with Sellers; “how was your last Real Estate experience? Was it positive or negative?” Surprisingly, (or not surprisingly) many times the Seller mentions a negative experience or was left with a memory that something didn’t meet their ...Read More

...or is it just winter? I returned from a Real Estate conference in Arizona on Monday. It was wonderful to be in a new area surrounded by some of the best Realtors in the USA. (I believe Wendy Starr and I were the only Canadians.) One thing we quickly came to understand was that every Agent we spoke with was dealing with the same low inventory market with homes selling above asking and prices in...Read More

Where are we currently with pricing locally? Here is a snapshot of prices for all homes along with detached homes singled out as of Feb 22/22… 2-22-22 has a ring to it: Oshawa:     All homes - $1,176,000 Detached - $1,223,000 Whitby:       All homes - $1,239,000 Detached - $1,567,000 Clarington: All homes - $1,223,000 Detached - $1,263,000 ...Read More

We saw a welcomed change in how we market Real Estate at the first of this month. Once the January restrictions were altered, open houses were again allowed to take place. Over the past 2 years, open houses have been one of the restricted activities, being blocked more than they have been allowed. Personally, we had to relearn how to effectively hold an open house. I say this jokingly, as they ha...Read More

Think about south Oshawa, or downtown Whitby or even that odd area in Bowmanville that floods every time Lake Ontario surges…. Then think about a bachelor co-op in Brooklyn Heights. How is it possible to find similarities in these communities? Hang with me for a few minutes. It’s Buyers. Buyers of homes in Durham and Manhattan use similar processes when going through the steps of f...Read More

  Please join us in welcoming Kristen Gonsalves to the Buy Sell Love Durham team! Kristen is the newest licensed agent with Buy Sell Love Durham. Kristen joins us ready to concentrate on guiding our clients who are in the market to find their next dream home. It's a challenging market out there. Kristen looks forward to dedicating her time, creativity and enthusiasm to help our c...Read More

In my blog dated November 15th, 2021, I made some forecasts. Looking at the inventory and Buyer demand I came up with predictions for Real Estate prices in our area for the winter market. I refer to my “crystal ball” quite often, sharing how it really is not that accurate, however, this time it seems to be on the correct track for predictions. Let’s look at what I predicted &ndas...Read More

Let’s jump back in time, say to 1997. This was an amazing year for Real Estate. In fact, it was the best year for sales in a decade. Detached homes had been increasing in value since a correction in 1990 and the future looked rosy. One other component of the market in the late 1990s was predictability. It was a given that year after year the values would increase, Sellers would ask “X&...Read More

It’s a snow day. Actually, it's a “snowmageddon.” I am sitting at my kitchen table watching the snow float around and it looks beautiful. Until you go outside, then you realize how challenging the conditions make for moving around. This can be likened to our Real Estate market. Buyers look online at beautifully staged homes with dreams of moving, only to walk into a “bl...Read More

The Christmas trees are down, the New Years' Eve noisemakers are put away for another year and the numbers are showing how Real Estate finished 2021. 2021 was a year that took everyone by surprise. Beginning with a lockdown, more lockdowns, a new variant that seems to be sweeping across our country to a banner year for home sales. Here is a quick breakdown of year-over-year changes for the m...Read More