Perfect time to renovate your home!
With the Scotia Total Equity® Plan (STEP®), you could use the equity in your home to lower the cost of borrowing to finance your home renovations, refinance your home, or enjoy a low-rate line of credit. The Scotia STEP can give you more control over your borrowing, and […]
Entries from January 2009
Remodel Your Home, Not Your Lifestyle: by Scotiabank’s Louise Lemay
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Acheteurs · Crunching Numbers · Home Sellers · Home buyers · Keeping House · Mortgages & Financing · Vendeurs
First-time home buyers get a (relatively) sweet deal in the new Conservative budget
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Note pour nos lecteurs francophones: Il y a un très bon résumé du budget et son effet sur les personnes qui achètent, vendent et rénovent leurs propriétés par l’autrice du Blogue du Collège immobilierdu Québec. Cliquez ici pour lire ce billet.
Let’s just get one thing out of the way first- we know people were […]
Tags: Acheteurs · Crunching Numbers · Home buyers · Mortgages & Financing
Marcel Tremblay is no longer in charge of (not) snow removal
January 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We never thought this would happen, nepotism being what it is…but, it’s true! The king of crampons is now back in charge of community cultural affairs, Jean Drapeau Park, and throwing a giant birthday party for Montreal in 2017.
Here’s hoping, for our neighbour’s sake, that his successor Luis Miranda, gets it right(er).
Sources: Montreal Gazette, and […]
Tags: Montrealness · Not real estate related
Encouraging news for sellers
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
This video is courtesy of the GMREB, featuring Michel Beausejour.According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board, on buying and selling intentions, 5% of households in the Montreal Metro Area are considering buying a property in 2009- similar to 2008. The ever-optimistic real estate board also has found […]
Tags: Crunching Numbers · Home Sellers · Vendeurs · mar-vo news
Economic fundamentals and the link to real estate sales
January 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Any fluctuation in the real estate market is generally believed to follow the fluctuation of job creation and security. As Michel Beauséjour, CEO of the Greater Montreal Real Estate board has put it: “Obviously Montreal is not immune from the economic uncertainties facing consumers today. There are three variables that affect the real estate market […]
Tags: Acheteurs · Crunching Numbers · Home Sellers · Home buyers · Vendeurs · mar-vo news
What a broken pipe looks like
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Whoa!
Source: CBC.ca
Tags: Montrealness · Not real estate related
Le marché de la revente à Montréal tire son épingle du jeu en 2008
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments
This is the latest from the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board.
Source: CIGM
Île-des-Sœurs, le 9 décembre 2008 – Selon les données du système MLS®, la Chambre immobilière du Grand Montréal (CIGM) indique que le prix médian d’une maison unifamiliale dans la région métropolitaine de Montréal a augmenté de 6 % en 2008 par rapport à 2007, alors […]
Tags: Acheteurs · Crunching Numbers · Home Sellers · Home buyers · Laval Neighbourhoods & Info · Vendeurs · mar-vo news
Mar-vo clients and friends can now leave feedback on immolaval.com
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments
We recently updated our website, www.immolaval.com, to include feedback, which you can access by clicking on Témoignages, on the lower left-hand side. Here’s one testimonial we received recently on our services:
”Ces quelques lignes pour vous faire part de notre satisfaction des services de Catherine Vourakis qui a vendu notre maison. Elle travaille […]
Tags: mar-vo news