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Freelance writer Carola Vyhnak is leaving her four-acre country home, north of Cobourg, Ont., for a smaller place in a nearby town. She’s keeping a diary about her downsizing journey. In the second installation, she describes the feeding frenzy of showings leading up to the sale of her property: one day. That’s all it took …
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Of course the minute I say that the inventory is going to stay low, it takes off. The normal graphs aren’t working so I drew the changes on last week’s graph above. The number of activities increased by 8% in one week! You don’t see anybody giving them away either, so we’ll see if the …
A comedian has patched real estate agents and announced he will try to sell his home on his own. Brett D’Souza is cutting out real estate agents altogether as he sells his house located at 6 Walton Street in Melbourne’s inner northern suburb of Brunswick. D’Souza is hoping to fetch $1.8million for the property and …
Bill has a great suggestion here, and the powers that be should strongly consider it. Key points: The long-time homeowners who are aging-in-place just because of the heavy capital-gains tax will be freed up to move – and it will have little impact on tax revenue. why? Seniors are so adamant about not paying Uncle …
OK, yes—we admit that owning a mansion overlooking Hollywood Hills (with neighbors the likes of Taye Diggs) is probably a pipe dream. But does that stop us from wanting every dirty detail on the celebrity real estate market? Absolutely not. Hence, why we jumped at an opportunity to pick the brains of Mary Fitzgerald and …
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Developer Alex Sapir allegedly broke a cardinal rule in real estate related to the waterfront Miami Beach home he once shared with his wife. Sapir, developer of the luxury Surfside condo building Arte, brought in a real estate agent to show the house — without his wife Yanina Sapir’s consent, according to court filings. Yanina …
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For those who like to look back fondly at ancient history and remember what used to be, I present to you the local Case-Shiller Index. About the time that the market starts to sputter in mid-to-late summer, we will be getting the spring data that will look red hot. “The results released today pre-date the …
The number of active listings broke out of its range! But the flow is still a trickle: It’s hard to tell whether we are starved for inventory or it’s just enough. We’ll know over the next four weeks as the spring selling season wraps up. Will there be a spurt of new pendings before graduation …
The graph above is boring at this time of year, so I added my predictions in the lighter colors. I’m figuring that the Fed will be relentless and the higher rates in the second half of the year will cause the pricing gap between sellers and buyers to be tougher to bridge. It’s because there …
HOME sales in the north fell by 5,660 year-on-year in 2022, official figures show. The Northern Ireland housing market recorded 28,520 residential transactions in the past 12 months, according to HMRC. Although 17 per cent down on the 34,180 properties sold in 2021, annual sales were still up in both 2018 and 2019. However, transactions …
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