Fabulous 2 bedroom apartment with office/den in the popular Botanica Private complex. Walk to the Civic Hospital, Experimental farm, Dow's lake and Little Italy in minutes. Central location ideal for a professional couple, retirees or young professional. Unit is immaculate, freshly painted, high quality carpet and features 7 appliances. Kitchen appliances are brand new stainless ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on June 29, 2009
Not everything is doom and gloom in the papers these days. Today's Ottawa Citizen reports that Residental resale homes sales are up and that May 2009 had record volume and prices are up 5.3% from May 2008. This is great news fr the Ottawa Real Estate Market. The reasons given include steady, stable employment and healthy incomes.
With the recent rise in interest rates the ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on June 4, 2009
Yesterday I attended a session hosted by Century 21 about it's website strategy and website www.century21.ca. The session was hosted by staff from wheretolive.com the designers of the website.
We talked about strategy and design but the most important thing was about traffic. Why do consumers really visit real estate websites? to find out about a house they have seen, either in an ad, ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on June 3, 2009
Reading recent reports in the media and you would believe that all is doom and gloom in Real Estate in Ottawa. The market is/has changed from the booming times of 2007/early 2008 or even the early 2000's, but it is far from doom and gloom. There are still buyers buying and sellers selling. The important thing to remember if you are doing either is your response to the market ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on February 12, 2009
What do you need to do to prepare your house for sale? I'm often asked this question and it has become a more and more important questions in the past few years. Why? I believe because a lot of buyers are watching HGTV and seeing hearing what the experts are saying. This changes their perception and perception is reality. Buyers now view homes and if they aren't in tip ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on January 26, 2009
Ottawa Real Estate Market Report.
The year end statistics are out and the Ottawa Real Estate Market has shown mixed results that clearly indicates a changing market but certainly not the doom and gloom spread by the media. Statistically our average house price has risen by 6.3%, while the number of sales has declined by 5.7% and the number of listing has increased by 7.7% , when compared ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on January 21, 2009