On January 17,2011 Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced changes to government insured mortgages and new regulations to take effect on April 18,2011. Full details can be found on the Federal Government’s web page.
The new changes are:
Reduce the maximum amortization period to 30 years from 35 years for new government-backed insured mortgages with loan-to-value ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on January 19, 2011
We are pleased to announce that Joel MacDonald has joined Century 21 Colonial Realty as our E-Marketing Co-Ordinator and Trainer.
Joel is presently a Business Student at UPEI and he will be co-ordinating our already extensive online marketing systems to promote our property listings, our agents and the services our company provides. He will also be researching other tools available to assist ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on January 10, 2011
E-Marketing Project Co-Ordinator- SEO and Social Media !
Century 21 Colonial Realty is a leader in the real estate industry on PEI both online and offline. The company is a forward thinking real estate company with traditional values of quality service to not only its clients of buyers and sellers of real estate, but with its own agents who work as independent contractors as real estate sales ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on December 29, 2010
Recently I was asked to co-host a morning radio show program at one of our local radio stations- Ocean 100 FM.
One of their hosts is off so they decided to bring in a local person each day to share the studio. I jumped at the chance ! Since then many people have asked if I wished I did that instead of being a real estate broker. Of course for me it was just plain fun as I just had to chat ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on October 7, 2010
It's here! Bicycle Season!
Your kids are rare'n to ride. Now it's time to make sure their bicycles are ready for them and they are ready for their bicycles.
Saturday, June 19th, starting at 9:00am, we are holding the Century 21 Colonial Realty Bike Rodeo! With school getting out this month, kids are going to be heading to the streets (or driveways) on their bicycles. We want to help ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on June 4, 2010
For years many people have complained that PEI has had more traffic lights than needed. It seemed that the answer to any traffic issue was to put up more traffic lights....well not now, we are literally going to be going in circles.
There will be a total of five roundabouts constructed this summer and it is now time for us Islanders to learn how to drive on them without causing accidents and our ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on June 1, 2010
Are you a Twitterer?
Like your info fast? Follow Century 21 Colonial on Twitter and you will receive our new listings with a direct link to the property's website...to that property's home page !
We also feed our blog to that account and post other info on upcoming events and real estate articles that we think may be of interest to you.
Century 21 Colonial Realty is a sponsor of the first ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on May 27, 2010
As we approach our Charlottetown Drop Zone date of Wednesday, August 11th, one particular member of the Century 21 Colonial Realty Team Kids To Camp has proven ...
Posted by Cindy Beharrell
on May 25, 2010
Okay for all you movie buffs out there...I know it was really "The New Phone Books Are In! " from Steve Martin in the movie The Jerk but I am not sure how many people on PEI were that excited yesterday when most of us received our 2010 tax assessment bills. I don't know many people who get excited over such things.
In last years legislature, the PEI Government decided to "unfreeze" the assessments ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on May 12, 2010
On Saturday May 1 2010 Century 21 Colonial Realty hosted their first Shred A Thon and raised $764.95 for our Drop Zone for Easter Seals team.
With the assistance of GreenIsle Environmental and the Commercial Crime Division of the RCMP we were able to help people safely destroy their personal papers to protect their identity and give them peace of mind on the destruction of those papers. ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on May 3, 2010