The Goulbourn Museum is looking for Antique Christmas Ornaments.
Do you live in Stittsville, Richmond, Munster or rural Goulbourn Township area? Well if you do and if they have any antique Christmas decorations that you would be willing to loan for a display at the Museum over the next few months they would appreciate hearing from you. They would also like a little background ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on October 19, 2010
The word from the Ottawa Real Estate Board based on the ratio of Listing to Sales from the month of August is that Ottawa has finally achieved a balance market. Here is what they had to say:Better supply of properties for sale brings balance to housing market; prices rise steadily After an HST- influenced dip in sales in July, August saw a return to a more normal number of sales. Members of the Ottawa ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on September 7, 2010
It being just a few days before Fathers Day I thought it appropriate to celebrate my Father Don Mercer's (1928 - 2005) Life. Born in rural Ontario in September of 1928 he was a small and not so healthy child. He had what was know then as an enlarged heart. He couldn't run or over exert himself as others and living on the farm this was hard. There were no tests or MRI machines to look at what was ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on June 20, 2010
Kanata West - Stittsville will look very different by the end of 2010 when the major roads Hazeldean Road including the upgrades of the intesections for Stittsville Main Street, Huntmar, Johnwoods and Carp Roads have all been upgraded to 4 lanes but in the meantime the Mess is chaotic!
Yesterday and today (June 12th and 13th) the closing of Hazeldean Road from Terry Fox to Huntmar ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on June 13, 2010
The Lack of Supply and the Strength of Market Demand here in Ottawa has the market hopping.
Each Morning when I open my MLS program I take a look at the number of houses listed yesterday along with those back on the market and compare it to the the number of conditional sales and firmed sales. For the past few weeks the number has been just about exactly the same. Now usually at this time ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on March 25, 2010
The numbers published by the Ottawa Real Estate Board this week for the first month of 2010 are out and they confirm what most already knew that The Real Estate selling year came out flying for January. The president of the Ottawa Boards monthly newsletter highlighted the fact that there was 713 units changed hands with 156 in the condominim/co-op or life lease category and 557 in the residential freehold ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on February 5, 2010
The Canadian Banking Industry changed somewhere along the last few years, quietly, and in the case of our sellers deals, Deadly!
In the past year I have personally been involved in four sales that had existing first mortgages with one of the five Canadian Banks:TD Canada Trust, Scotiabank, CIBC, Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank where the penalties have been totally out of line with what the sellers ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on January 21, 2010
I was honoured, I was excited and maybe just a bit nervous as the time neared for me to take that Olympic Torch down Raglan Street which is the main street of Renfrew, Horton Township, Renfrew County, Ontario. Yesterday December 13, 2009 at 12:40.
It started early yesterday morning as we drove an hour to Renfrew to our assigned meeting place at the Renfrew Town Hall, It was snowing lightly and that ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on December 14, 2009
I am so honoured to be given the opportunity to be one among many named to carry the Olympic Torch in one of the largest relays ever planned. Over 45,000 kilometers in all. Starting on October 30, 2009 and culminating with the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver on February 12, 2010.
Imagine the number of people visiting over 1000 communities and points of interest across ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on October 21, 2009
The result of a lack of affordable listings has resulted in long line ups at the doors of newly published listings and the deliberate creation of bidding wars on new affordable listings in Ottawa.
The amount in my neighbourhood of Stittsville which is in the west most suburb of Ottawa has had less of the normal listing stock, in comparison to the past few year. Thank goodness for new home ...
Posted by Carol Jefferies
on October 8, 2009