I see so many who want to own a home who earn enough household income to carry a home, yet that down payment requirement keeps them renting, often for years and years. If you are renting a home you are already in effect paying a mortgage, just not your own. You are also putting some extra cash
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09/04/2013
Near-record July for Barrie & District home sales Within the City of Barrie sales activity was up nine per cent from a year earlier. The City of Barrie saw 277 residential sales in July. “While home sales in the City of Barrie recorded a healthy year-over-year gain in July, activity in the su
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08/22/2013
Second best May ever for Barrie & District home sales Residential property sales recorded through the MLS® System of the Barrie & District Association of REALTORS® Inc. numbered 592 units in May 2013, rising nine per cent from May 2012. Within the City of Barrie sales activity rose four per c
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06/05/2013
***** Did you ever wonder how the guy who owns the biggest for-sale-by-owner company in the country sells his own home? Well you can stop wondering. ***** ForSalebyOwner.com founder gives up on own listing, hires real estate broker Former FSBO CEO sells home the traditional way Found
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04/08/2013
Residential property sales recorded through the MLS® System of the Barrie & District Association of REALTORS® Inc. numbered 360 units in March 2013. This was a decline of 14 per cent from last March.Within the City of Barrie sales activity was down by a smaller 11 per cent from a year earlier. T
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04/04/2013
The Canadian Real Estate Association's Annual general meeting was held in Ottawa this past weekend. I don't think you can gain a more front line, up to the minute, sense of the health and direction of the housing industry from one end of Canada to the other than by spending 3 days with more than
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03/28/2013
Toronto recently surpassed Chicago taking on the title as being North America's fourth most populous city. Already the largest city in Canada, Toronto's new population estimate is 2.79 million — beating Chicago's 2.7 million people. The numbers do not include the surrounding metropolitan areas
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03/16/2013
I try to avoid starting stories with "Back in the day" or "I remember when", because I remember when back in the day people who talked like that sounded like old farts to me. If you were around to watch the first moon landing as I was, albeit I was very young at the time, there is no escaping
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03/14/2013
Those who have been in the business of selling Real Estate in Ontario long enough to remember rolodexes and cellular phones that looked more like luggage than anything else like to recount the years 1989-1990 much like our grandparents talked about the dirty thirties. They talk about how by 199
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03/13/2013
