It’s just your standard house….er….mansion….er….estate…
I guess I could be persuaded to live here, if the mood struck me.
This $5,850,000 house in Vaughan, Ontario would easily be listed over $10,000,000 if there were anything like it in Toronto.
While sorting through my mail this afternoon, I began reading a real estate flyer from a company that shall remain nameless.
They had an outlook for the 2008 condo market which I found very interesting.
Half the things I read I completely agreed with, and half the things I found outrageous…
I never thought I’d see the day when I say that $339,000 is “dirt cheap.”
But the reality is, buying a house for under $350,000 today in the City of Toronto is much easier said than done.
These properties DO exist, but usually they need a ton of work, are in a less than desirable area, or have other one, two, or ten other drawbacks…
….of a new real estate agent!
This poor girl just started at our office, and already she’s having a difficult time.
While I sympathize with her trials and tribulations, it makes for a rather funny story…
Well, the equity markets may have been volatile over the past couple days, but the real estate market just keeps chugging along!
Today, two identical houses came onto the market priced at $1,395,000 each.
The catch?
This used to be one house, priced at $979,000…
I wasn’t referring to the Sheryl Crow song, “My Favorite Mistake,” but now that I think about it, Sheryl has a wicked voice…
Anyways, I’ve witnessed many great moves within the real estate market, but seen some poor investments, bad decisions, and terrible mistakes.
There is one mistake that stands out in my mind more than all the rest, but it wasn’t the financial disaster that bothered me, but rather the sheer ignorance disguised as arrogance of the potential buyer involved…
I get a lot of so-called “junk-mail” every day from agents across Ontario, Canada, or even North America advertising their out-of-area listings.
But this one email caught my eye, and gave me some serious perspective on the real estate nose-dive going on throughout the United States.
Anybody in the market for a Florida condo?
I remember the first time I saw the classic movie West Side Story.
I just kept watching these two gang-members, one from the Jets and one from the Sharks, attempt to fight eachother, but they stopped every five seconds to snap their fingers and then breakout in a choreographed dance routine.
My west side story, or story about my experience at West Side Lofts is just as entertaining, but it will not win ten Oscars…
Huh? Don Mills Road?
Ohhhhh…..you mean a condo on Don Mills, right?
No? A house? That makes no sense!
Believe it or not, there IS a house on Don Mills Road, several, in fact. But I can’t see this being an easy sale…
You can’t turn on CNN without hearing the terms “credit crunch,” “sub-prime mortgage,” or “national debt.”
There is a documentary film that everybody and their grandmother MUST see right now. It’s called “Maxed Out,” and it’s on Rogers-On-Demand this month.
You’ll find yourself thinking “This can’t be true” as you watch the film, but it’s all true, and it’s all quite sad…
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