Home Staging is a proven system for preparing properties for sale. Your aim is to present your home in the best possible light to win the hearts of prospective buyers. With Staging, the focus is shifted from the furnishings to the home itself, the views, the space and the unique features of the property.

In preparing your house for selling you need to take a step back and have the mind set ...

Selling Your Home?

Every seller wants his or her home to sell fast and bring top dollar. It's not luck that makes that happen. It's careful planning and knowing how to professionally spruce up your home that will send home buyers scurrying for their cheque books.

Your home will be judged not only on its outward appearance, but also on the feelings it evokes in those who view your property ...

Are you looking for something bigger?

Chances are when you bought your first home you were thinking of it as a "starter home" and dreamed of owning a larger and better home one day. With today's mortgage rates in the lowest range they've been for almost 30 years, you might be pleasantly surprised that you can afford that "move up" house now. Using the equity you've built up in your current h ...

Buying or Selling: OREA Tips

Making a Decision

Buying or selling a home is a complex and often very emotional process. Just casually mention to family, friends and colleagues that you plan to buy or sell a property, and watch the advice pour in. Everyone has a story to tell: a great deal made and lost, a bargain that wasn't, the frustration of a price war, and so on.

Truth is that buying ...

Buying Basics: What you can Afford

What are you looking for?

If you're thinking of purchasing your first home, you probably have a lot of great ideas about what you'd like. Things such as:

• Several thousand square feet of living space
• A two-car garage
• A large fenced-in lot
• A pool
• One or two fireplaces
• A panoramic view

But it may be time for a reality check since most fir ...

Semone and fellow agent Cindy Shanks are at 2237 Queen St East today helping with this years sale. It's in front of the Re/Max Hallmark office and there are lots of goodies

Yard Sale for the Cure Today

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Why choose RE/MAX Realtors?

A May 2010 Readers Digest survey shows that because of our commitment, enthusiasm and professionalism, we are the "Most Trusted Residential Realtors in Canada." We have worked hard to gain your trust by working consistently to achieve all of your real estate goals quickly and for the best price possible.

Readers Digest gave their readers the choice of 28 different ...

Woodbine and Gerrard Area

We're renovating this Upper Beach home. Possession is April 30 and we're getting our permits and inspections in order before starting work.

We plan to make the first floor open-concept and modernize the kitchen. A new larger bathroom will replace the one on the second floor. We'll finish the basement and add a bathroom. All mechanicals will be updated.

I'll be posti ...

Sales of condominiums in the Toronto new home market has risen steadily in the last ten years and by 2008 reached majority of purchases. 62% of those 18-24 who purchased a home bought a condominium, as they represent low entry price, downtown living, low maintenance and easy resale. Similar reasons plus downsizing attracted purchasers over 55, with about 40% of home buyers.