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Know the value of a REALTOR®

February 7, 2011   Buying Real Estate, General Real Estate, Selling Real Estate, Toronto Real Estate

Bill John­ston – Toronto Sun

It’s said that the more things change, the more they stay the same and this is cer­tainly true with respect to Toron­to­ni­ans’ inter­est in real estate.

Our pas­sion for real estate stems from the fact that as a world city, Toronto prop­erty val­ues hold tremen­dous long-term promise. The process of buy­ing and sell­ing a home though has become increas­ingly more sophis­ti­cated in recent years, requir­ing knowl­edge of eco­nomic trends, reg­u­la­tory require­ments and the lat­est mar­ket­ing tech­niques. It’s there­fore more impor­tant than ever to use the pro­fes­sional ser­vices of a REALTOR®.

In Ontario, REALTORS® acquire their knowl­edge through a chal­leng­ing edu­ca­tion pro­gram fol­lowed by a super­vised train­ing period as required by the Real Estate and Busi­ness Bro­kers Act. They’re also required to upgrade their edu­ca­tion on a con­tin­ual basis, obtain­ing at least 24 Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion course cred­its every two years.

Nat­u­rally, a vast amount of skills and knowl­edge is acquired along this edu­ca­tional path. Your REALTOR® will for exam­ple, learn how to use the Mul­ti­ple List­ing Ser­vice® which can gen­er­ate infor­ma­tion on sales vol­umes, aver­age prices, and days on mar­ket, by hous­ing type and neigh­bour­hood, that will help you deter­mine a suit­able offer or list­ing price.

They’ll gather all of the details on our home’s fea­tures to be dis­played on the MLS®, which along with the Buyer Reg­istry Ser­vice, is used to match buy­ers’ pref­er­ences with prop­er­ties avail­able for sale.

To con­firm a num­ber of specifics that are impor­tant to every trans­ac­tion like cur­rent taxes on indi­vid­ual prop­er­ties, own­er­ship his­to­ries and lot size details, your REALTOR® can also access the Munic­i­pal Prop­erty Assess­ment Corporation’s database.

They may extend their infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing even fur­ther, retriev­ing data like streetscape imagery, mapped neigh­bour­hood sales and aver­age local incomes from Teranet’s GeoWarehouse.

Your Greater Toronto REALTOR® may even advise you on new home con­struc­tion options using Real­Net Canada’s database.

You can count on a REALTOR® to help you inter­pret the con­sid­er­able range of data they retrieve and to offer insight into a num­ber of other key areas as well.

They can for exam­ple, advise on fea­tures that are in demand in today’s hous­ing mar­ket, and offer an objec­tive per­spec­tive on improve­ments that will achieve the best return on invest­ment for your spe­cific home.

They have an unmatched depth of under­stand­ing when it comes to indi­vid­ual atmos­pheres, school rat­ings and neigh­bour­hood amenities.

Your REALTOR® may also offer insight into gov­ern­ment pro­grams that may be suited to your indi­vid­ual situation.

For more infor­ma­tion on the many ways their pro­fes­sional exper­tise can ben­e­fit you, talk to a REALTOR® and visit www​.Toron​to​Re​alEstate​Board​.com.

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Con­tact the Jef­frey Team for more infor­ma­tion – 416−388−1960

Lau­rin & Natalie Jef­frey are Toronto Real­tors with Cen­tury 21 Regal Realty.
They did not write these arti­cles, they just repro­duce them here for peo­ple
who are inter­ested in Toronto real estate. They do not work for any builders.
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Choose a home that fits your style

January 20, 2011   Buying Real Estate, Central Toronto Real Estate, East Toronto Real Estate, First Time Buyers, General Real Estate, Midtown Toronto Real Estate, Move Up Buyers, Toronto Real Estate

Bill John­ston, TREB Pres­i­dent – Toronto Sun

For some peo­ple, one of the most chal­leng­ing aspects of buy­ing a home can be choos­ing from the numer­ous options to help fit their lifestyle. From a con­do­minium in the heart of the city to a farm set amongst rolling hills, from life on an island to a home near ski slope, few world cities can boast the eclec­tic mix of hous­ing that the Greater Toronto Area offers.

This spec­trum of choices means that it’s par­tic­u­larly impor­tant to use the ser­vices of a REALTOR® to care­fully iden­tify a home that is best suited to fit your lifestyle.

Start by sign­ing a Buyer Agency Agree­ment, the BRA helps out­line your REALTOR’s® com­mit­ment to rep­re­sent your best inter­ests by work­ing exclu­sively on your behalf for a des­ig­nated period of time.

A REALTOR’s® direct access to a num­ber of impor­tant data­bases may help you iden­tify all of your options.

If you pre­fer a home in an estab­lished com­mu­nity, your REALTOR® can use the Mul­ti­ple List­ing Ser­vice® (MLS) to search for thou­sands of avail­able prop­er­ties, which are dis­played in real time, as soon as they are listed for sale.

Your REALTOR® may also reg­is­ter your cri­te­ria in the Toronto Real Estate Board’s Buyer Reg­istry Ser­vice (BRS). It is a password-protected data­base in which your per­sonal infor­ma­tion is only acces­si­ble to your REALTOR®. While you can receive reg­u­lar email noti­fi­ca­tions on homes that match your spec­i­fi­ca­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tion between buy­ers’ and sell­ers’ REALTORS® who use the BRS can occur even faster.

Your REALTOR® may even be aware of soon-to-be avail­able prop­er­ties through their net­work of con­tacts in the community.

Be sure to visit www​.BRAFirst​.ca for more infor­ma­tion on the Buyer Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Agreement.

If a brand new home is what you have in mind, your REALTOR® can advise as to new home con­struc­tion options through­out Greater Toronto Area using the Real­net Canada data­base. Devel­op­ments can be searched by hous­ing type, loca­tion, price range and a num­ber of other spe­cific criteria.

Once you have selected a few options, your REALTOR® can gather infor­ma­tion that can be key to your decision-making like any price adjust­ments that have occurred and the property’s num­ber of days on the mar­ket. They can also use the MLS® to help you eval­u­ate ask­ing prices based on the infor­ma­tion of other prop­er­ties recently sold in the area.

In fact, regard­less of whether it was ever avail­able on the MLS®, your REALTOR® can advise on a property’s pre­vi­ous sold price by access­ing their link to Teranet’s land reg­istry sys­tem. This data­base con­tains other key infor­ma­tion as well, like neigh­bour­hood demo­graphic pro­files, aer­ial views and land surveys.

Insight into other specifics like assessed val­ues, a home’s age, and square footage can also be gleaned using the Munic­i­pal Prop­erty Assess­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (MPAC) database.

By weigh­ing all of these fac­tors you can develop a focused pur­suit of your per­fect home and with a REALTOR’s® expert nego­ti­at­ing skills, it could be yours sooner than you think.

Regard­less of whether you choose new or resale, every mar­ket is dif­fer­ent be sure to con­tact a REALTOR®. Their skills and exper­tise may give you a win­ning advan­tage and help find the right home for you.

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Con­tact the Jef­frey Team for more infor­ma­tion – 416−388−1960

Lau­rin & Natalie Jef­frey are Toronto Real­tors with Cen­tury 21 Regal Realty.
They did not write these arti­cles, they just repro­duce them here for peo­ple
who are inter­ested in Toronto real estate. They do not work for any builders.
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    October 21, 2010   Buying Real Estate, First Time Buyers, General Real Estate, Legal Real Estate Issues, Miscellaneous, Toronto Real Estate

    Bill John­son, Resale Homes and Con­dos

    For some peo­ple, one of the most chal­leng­ing aspects of buy­ing a home can be choos­ing from the diverse range of options avail­able. From a con­do­minium in the heart of the city to a farm set amongst rolling hills, from life on an island to a home near a ski slope, few cities can boast the eclec­tic mix of hous­ing that the Greater Toronto Area offers.

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    Be sure to visit BRAFirst​.ca for more infor­ma­tion on the Buyer Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Agreement.

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    For more infor­ma­tion visit Toron​to​Re​alEstate​Board​.com where you’ll find neigh­bour­hood pro­files, mar­ket updates, GTA open house list­ings and more.

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