Why do realtors’ houses take so much longer to sell? It’s an untold dirty little secret that realtors won’t tell you and that I first heard of in the book Freakonomics. I then took some time to look up the stats on this little secret and low and behold – it was true. Here is…
Do you really need to stage your house? We often hear our #clients ask this exact question. Should I bother #staging my house? Will staging get me more #money? Should I pay a staging company? Should I rent furniture and accessories? All with the same underlying question; is staging really worth it? What do you…
Why do realtors love open houses? #Real estate open houses are one sales tactic that may be more about the hype than about results. Some real estate agents play up the benefits far more than they should, considering how many drawbacks there are to the process. The fact is, open houses are rarely conducted to…
MLS is the biggest monopoly in Canada And the problem is that you can’t do anything about it, or can you? How the Competition Bureau saw it in 2010 In 2010, the federal #Competition Bureau threatened to completely flip the script and change the realty game. After years of investigations and talks, it said it…
State of MLS in the past years It has been a hot, HOT bunch of years in the #GTA. So hot in fact that it seemed like no matter what you did, the price was going up and the number of offers was sure to climb. So hot in fact, that OREA put out a…
Getting your license Ever wonder why there are so many #realtors in the #GTA? In case you did not realize it there are 50,000 realtors working with the #Toronto #Real Estate Board (#TREB). More alarming still is that there are only 50,000 Realtors working outside of #Ontario in the other 9 provinces and territories put together. In Canada (as…
How to pick a discount real estate brokerage So you’re about to sell your home, or possibly buy a new one and you know you don’t want to be spending upwards of $50,000 on commissions (on your $1M home), so what do you do? With so many realtors in the #GTA, the task of choosing…
Doing it yourself – the self led MLS listing We are all looking to #save money, especially in a time of deals aggregators, coupon websites, etc… And yet, the one industry where this consistently seems to not happen is realty. realtors are NOT inventive or innovative What other realtors will tell you Here is a…
Are realtors really worth 1/20th of your home value? If you are a bit older and have been around the block, you may have actually seen realtors do a lot of work. Before the era of mass #market computing, super easy advertising and consolidation that has led to the great advances we see in the…