Selling

First off, happy belated Canada Day! As the holiday fell on a Friday this year, I thought I wouldn’t do a post on Friday as normal.  I know you probably sat by your computer all afternoon, into the early evening, waiting and wondering when Jeff will do his next post. I

Don’t list your house on a holiday.  Seriously people.

2018-02-27T12:20:51-05:00July 4th, 2016|

In late May, 2016, MPAC started sending out their 2016 Property Assessment Notices. These lovely documents provide an assessed value for your property, based on a secret formula developed by MPAC scientists in a bunker in the wilds of Northern Ontario. That might be a bit of an exaggeration. Truth

MPAC says I’m rich! Hold on..how much are my taxes now?

2018-02-27T12:20:51-05:00June 10th, 2016|

I was having a conversation the other day with Drake, and he was quite surprised when I told him that forget about the six, the five is where it really is these days. Full disclosure, Drake is the nickname I have given one of Diane’s fish in her aquarium.  Fuller

The 905 is catching up!

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00May 20th, 2016|

I’m going to admit right off the bat that I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of the TV show Mad Men lately. Whenever I watch a lot of a particular show or read a particular book series, it tends to influence how I view the world for a brief

How to sound smart at your next cocktail party.

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00April 29th, 2016|

  There are no shortage of green topics these days. Whether it is marijuana legalization or the explosive growth of medical marijuana dispensaries in Ontario over the last year, we see lots of news stories about marijuana and the money in play. I recently rented out a commercial space to

Green is worth green.

2018-02-27T12:20:52-05:00April 22nd, 2016|

Given I spent an hour shovelling snow this morning and then took twice as long to get to my morning appointment, winter weather is definitely on my mind today. When I saw the latest market data for February, it gave me the idea to talk about how the weather outside

Yes, the weather impacts real estate prices.

2018-02-27T12:20:53-05:00March 4th, 2016|

I’ve been in some bad homes. Condos with layouts that make me scratch my head, where the bathroom has an inexplicable diagonal jog behind the tub and living rooms are bisected by a pillar that makes placement of a couch or TV pretty much impossible. Houses where modern touches have been

Good Design Matters

2018-02-27T12:20:53-05:00February 26th, 2016|

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