Have you ever been searching for your dream home on the Internet and spent a lot of time looking at dark blurry photos that don't show the house in a positive way. Well you certainly are not alone. Most buyers in todays market start their home search on the Internet. How do they decide what homes are of interest to them?? Pictures, pictures, pictures. Check out a few samples of what you ...
Posted by Glen McQuaid
on June 20, 2009
There has been a huge increase in web traffic in the past 2 years of people searching for all things but especially real estate. With that most Realtors ® have gone out and got a website that they put information about themselves and put their listings on it.
Some of the issues with it is keeping properties current with pictures, correct information like price, amenities and especially ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on May 29, 2009
Century 21 Colonial Realty Inc has recently sold 215 Sundance Lane in Stratford PEI. It was one of the most spectacular homes that we have ever had the opportunity to market and sell. Due to its location, price and curiousity seekers it was the most viewed property we have had on our site. At one point it was in the top 5 of most viewed properties in the Century21.ca platform in Canada.
From ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on May 27, 2009
Recently many of the Brokers in PEI discussed issues within the PEI Real Estate industry and one main topic was the continued use of print media.
In the 1980's the brokers got together to do a co operative tabloid real estate supplement within the PEI Newspaper "The Guardian". It was very effective for many years but with the Internet changing how people shop for many items including real estate ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on March 23, 2009
If you are always checking back to find out if there are any new listings on our site...we have made it easier for you by going to www.newlistings21.com . All of our recently added listings will show up on our map with the most recent on the bottom left of the screen. It is kind of like a stock ticker but hopefully not as depressing some times. But hey the markets are rebounding and the real estate ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on March 16, 2009
Century 21 Colonial Realty Inc is always working on staying current with technology and trends. We are working with an Online Marketing Firm called TopSearchResult.ca that specializes in real estate SEO, Pay Per Click and Social Media. We have a fan page on Facebook and now we have enabled a Twitter Account that allows other Twitter subscribers to follow and be alerted to new listings, price ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on March 15, 2009
With all things going on with the media (more US but Canada is catching up) with words like bailout, stimulus, foreclosures, etc I wonder where it all went wrong ??? Sure there are lots of explanations with financial situations such as price of oil, selling off of mortgages, the NASDAQ, stock market, etc it all seems to be tied to confidence. It comes down to confidence in your job, your investments,the ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on March 1, 2009
Ritchie Simpson from CENTUM Advantage Financial Group just sent me the following message.
"Well, if you haven't heard by now the Bank of Canada has lowered the Over-night Rate to a new 50-year low of 1%; the Over-Night Rate is the figure the Bank of Canada uses to signal to Canada's chartered banks what they should do with their lending rates. It appears that the chartered banks will ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on January 20, 2009
Recently it was announced that Century 21 in the USA will no longer do TV advertising. They were one of the first national real estate franchises to do TV advertising with some many memorable ads. You can read the story that came from Adage Daily here. Although the first reaction is that it is about the downturn in the economy and a way to cut back expenses but they have decided ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on January 15, 2009
As the year comes to a close and we are all getting ready to celebrate the Holiday season it gives us a chance to reflect on the past. Although the news has been mainly about what is going to happen in the future (which I don't think anyone really knows) we must remember the good things that have happened to each and every one of us. As with everything in life there will be good times and there will ...
Posted by Joel Ives
on December 23, 2008