Share When looking to purchase a home you have to remember that although it will be the place your and your family will live in, it is also an investment and like any other investment, you will want to see it grow. A question that you will find yourself asking is how much your home [...]
Share Hopefully after reading the Understanding Home Prices series you have a better understanding of what can affect the price of your home. If you have owned your current home for a while, its value has most likely changed, especially given the current market and economy we are in. There are several ways to find [...]
Share The last factor that you have to take into consideration for your house price is the state the economy is in. This factor is something that you cannot control, but it will definitely affect your house price. What the economy particularly influences are interest rates. Higher interest rates mean it costs more for mortgage, [...]
Share A key factor to the price of a home is the renovations and upgrades done to it, especially if this is an older home we are talking about. With an older home, there might be the need to have some work done to keep it safe, modern and comfortable. With that said, the current [...]
Share New research by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) suggests that recession weary Canadians are divided on the future of the country’s economy; however there is much more hope for the year ahead. According to the data, 60% of people across Canada feel that the national economy will improve in 2010 after 2009 being [...]
Share A question that many sellers ask themselves is what factors affect the value of a home, especially their own. One of the most important factors that can affect the value of a home would be location. You will hear many real estate agents explain that location will be the biggest factor that affects your [...]
Share When you are staging your home, it is important you remove any “clutter” before you put your house on the market. Now, when I saw remove the “clutter”, by no means am I trying to be offensive; rather, begin to remove your personal belongings and put them away for storage. Seeing as you are [...]
