Listings, Bungalows, Shelburne Homes Under 250000 310 Main St., Shelburne. One of a kind Shelburne classic. Double-wide lot – 99ft – and a massive back yard!! The unique 2nd floor Loft has been pretty much left untouched and awaits your creative genius. Amazing possibilities as this level is just begging to be finished as a Loft, Family Room, additional bedrooms or the... Read more
Houses Under $200000, Hot Listing, Hornings Mills Century Home … Quaint hamlet setting in picturesque Horning’s Mills. Charm and character abound throughout with hardwood floors, wood trim & accents, and a cozy Living Room. The signature room though, has to be the formal Dining Room with it’s high ceilings, 20″ baseboards, and bay window nook. The main floor also features a... Read more
Hot MLS Listing, Homes For Sale In Orangeville, Ont. 213 Walsh Crescent, Orangeville … Homes Under $400,000 A joy and a pleasure to view. Not just a house, but a home in the true sense of the word – conjuring up images of cool Autumn nights, leaves on the ground, the smell of a wood burning fireplace. Impeccably maintained within and without. Cozy... Read more
98 Acre Hobby Farm, Country Homes, Shelburne Area Listings … Early 1900′s Farmhouse overlooking 98 pastoral acres of sun & green. Sheltered by mature trees and surrounded by rolling fields seeded in hay. Mostly clear (90% or so) with a small stand of trees (approx. 3 acres). 10 fenced acres for the horses, a concrete courtyard for the goats, an old fashioned bank barn... Read more
July 2011 Home Sales, Statistics For Mississauga, Orangeville, Brampton, Georgetown, Oakville/Milton … Numbers have been crunched, calculations analyzed, logarithm scales applied, and the slide rule has been put away for another month. The results are in and by all accounts, July 2011 appears to have been another solid month for home sales. Here’s a look at how the real estate market... Read more
Country Homes, Hobby Farms, Caledon, Mono, Mulmur … Oh how I enjoy those days when I’m in no particular rush to get where I gots to get. Usually, that involves a drive up into Dufferin County to meet with clients, show some properties, visit with friends in Horning’s Mills, and take five for a quick pit stop at the Masonville General... Read more
Home Ownership, Buying, Selling, Renovations, House Values … Royal hideaways, $100 million homes, controversial topics, renovation suggestions, tax savings, helpful tips for home buyers, home sellers, and home owners. Yup – pretty much got it covered. Thanks for stopping by this week. Royal Retreats and Hideaways (Forbes.com) … As a salute to the royal wedding – those of you House of Windsor devotees will... Read more
Mississauga, Orangeville; Real Estate News, Homes, Condos, Market Trends, NDACT Quarry Update … It’s a good ol’ fashioned mash-up this time out as our team of crack researchers compiles some recent stories having to do with matters real estate in and around Mississauga, Orangeville, and the GTA in general. It’s thumbs up all around as RE/MAX and The Globe and... Read more
Real estate news; sales trends, mortgage rates, taxes, homes, condos, Melancthon quarry update … At the risk of dating myself here, I think back to my days as a paper carrier for the Montreal Star lugging around a little wagon (or toboggan depending on the time of year) delivering the day’s news. Trudging up that long slope dividing upper Sunnyside from lower Sunnyside. Trudging back... Read more
Real Estate, News, Sales Trends, Market Stats, Surveys, Rural Issues … A collection of real estate news and items of interest from the past week dealing with market stats, the latest house and condo sales trends, surveys, polls, and rural issues. Resale Market Shows Further Improvement in January (CREA) … So much for sitting on the sidelines, renting for another year,... Read more
January Home Sales, Mississauga, Orangeville, Brampton, Georgetown, Caledon … The numbers are in for January 2011 and overall it looks pretty good. While the volume of sales doesn’t quite equal last year’s numbers (January 2010) partly as a result of less supply, selling prices seem to have generally trended upwards. In particular, the lower end of the price spectrum has been where an... Read more
Community News, Melancthon Quarry, NDACT Info Session … If you’ve been following with interest the discussions taking place between Melancthon Township, area residents, Highland Companies, and North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Task Force (NDACT) with regards to land use policies, you may wish to attend this weekend’s information session. This Saturday, January 22, 2011, from 10am-noon, Honeywood Arena will play host to NDACT’s... Read more
Real Estate News for Homebuyers, Homesellers, Homeowners. Market Trends for Mississauga, Orangeville, Caledon, Georgetown, Oakville … A number of analyses have been released in the last few weeks reporting on real estate markets across the country, including the Canadian Real Estate Association’s (CREA) latest assessment which states, “the national housing market has been firming up since July 2010 due to improving sales activity and a muted rise... Read more
Property Rights, Landowners Organize in Caledon, Dufferin … A grateful tip of the keyboard to Elizabeth Marshall, Research Chair of the Ontario Landowners Association, for her passionate, and entertaining, presentation to area realtors recently. The session, hosted by the Orangeville & District Real Estate Board, centred on the issue of property rights in Ontario and dealt with the steady erosion of those rights as government... Read more
Empty Nesters – Downsizing and The Boomerang Generation You’re looking around your house and thinking, hmm, maybe it’s time to either spruce the place up, or downsize. The kids are grown, off to school or work, they have places of their own, and the old homestead is starting to look awfully big and empty. Gone are the heaps of size 12 Nikes blocking the... Read more
Renovation Tips and Shopping Carts I was rolling through a desolate expanse of nothingness, otherwise known as the WalMart parking lot, the other night, playing dodge the shopping cart, when suddenly I was forced into a screeching halt. Was it the nice man in the police car watching, daring me to see how fast I could thread the needle of the two errant carts as, encouraged... Read more
Enchanting Older Homes, Century Victorian Homes, Listings … If These Walls Could Talk “His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” J.R.R. Tolkein. Like you and I, houses come in all shapes and sizes, each has it’s own personality and story to tell. Each... Read more
Life’s Little Surprises and Mini-Houses. Thanks to Orangeville architect Ian Starkey for taking myself and a group of local realtors on a recent guided tour of the new community centre at Blind Line and Hansen. While little more than a shell at the moment, the new building promises to bring life to a vacant lot that has - until now, been a rather nondescipt corner, with a low profile... Read more
Your Property Rights. How Safe Are They? I’d like to thank Paul General, from Six Nations Eco Centre in Oshweken for sharing his knowledge and first-hand insights into issues surrounding the Six Nations communities. Last week, Mr.General and his colleagues delivered a fascinating presentation to members of the Orangeville and District Real Estate Board (ODREB) dealing with the Haldimand Tract and the... Read more
