Market Update – November 2024
Central Toronto REALTORS® reported 231 detached home sales through the Toronto MLS® in November 2024; and on average, these detached homes sold for $2,218,996.…
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Market Update – October 2024
Central Toronto REALTORS® reported 314 detached home sales through the Toronto MLS® in October 2024; and on average, these detached homes sold for $2,485,522.…
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Sellers: 12 Tips for Showing Your Home
You’re selling your home, you’ve hired a realtor and decided on a listing price. The “For Sale” sign goes up, and it’s…
Costs Involved in Selling Your Toronto Home
During the home selling process there are numerous costs of which you should be aware both before and after the…
Moving Checklist
Now that you have sold your home, the next step is to get ready for the move. We’ve put together…
Ontario’s Residential Tenancy Agreement, Updates
As the renter’s market continues to gain traction in the GTA, it becomes increasingly important for realtors to stay on top…
Pricing Strategy for Toronto Home Sellers
One of the single greatest factors in a marketing plan’s success when selling your home is the property’s initial asking…
Selling Your Home? Here Are 6 Questions to Ask When Interviewing A Listing Agent
If you’re getting ready to sell your home, then you’ll want to make sure you’re working with a listing agent…
Staging Your Toronto Home
It has often been said that you never get a second chance at a first impression and when it comes…
Buyers/Sellers: Not All Realtors Are Created Equal. 5 Big Things You Should Be Selective About in Your Realtor
If you’re in the process of looking for a realtor to work with, you’ll want to be sure and do…
Selling Your Home? Here Are 7 Pro Tips for Fine Tuning Your Strategy
If you’re a seasoned seller and have been through the home selling process before, then you probably learned a great…
Sellers: 3 Must-Dos To Get Your Home Ready To List
If you are getting ready to list your home for sale, you may not be sure where to start. Here…
Should I Stage My House, and How?
To answer the question “Should I stage my house?”, let us first say that we are big believers in staging…even…
Should I Buy or Sell First in Today’s Toronto Market?
Are you thinking about buying a new home? If so, you may be wondering about the logistics of selling your…
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL & CITY OF TORONTO MUNICIPAL LAND TRANSFER TAX RATES
At it Toronto City Council meeting on February 15, 2017, the Council adopted changes to the Municipal Land Transfer Tax…
Rate the Performance of Your Realtor and Brokerage
Teachers, lawyers and doctors are all being rated by their students, clients and patients. Rate how well your Realtor and…
The Road From Offer Acceptance To Closing
Putting a deal together is half the battle, now it must be kept together. If the Agreement of Purchase and…
Eleven Things To Do If Your Property Just Wont Sell
If your home has been sitting there languishing on the market for months and you haven’t had any bites, or…
Pre-Emptive Offers (Bully Offers) Explained
What is a bully offer? When Sellers list a good property in a hot market they are often hoping that…
Multiple Offers Explained
These days it is not uncommon for more than one buyer to want a house. When a buyer decides to…
What to Expect During Offer Negotiations
Transactions can entail a considerable amount of negotiation between the initial offer presentation and the final sale. The Realtor’s objectivity,…
Seventeen Ways to Turn Off Buyers
17 WAYS TO TURN BUYERS OFF AND SCARE THEM AWAY DIRT, GRIME AND FILTH The easiest way to completely derail…
Marketing Your Home
To get top market value for your home your house needs to look its best and your Realtor needs to…
Listing Your Toronto Home
Once you have interviewed and selected a Realtor to represent you, prepared your home to sell, decided on the timing…
Staging Your Toronto Home
It has often been said that you never get a second chance at a first impression and when it comes…
Pricing Your Toronto Home
PRICING YOUR HOME Your home has many values: one established by the municipal tax assessor, another established by the real…
Researching Your Home’s Value
The hard truth is that a home is worth what buyers are willing to pay for it. Determining a home’s…
Preparing Your Toronto Home To Sell
Part of obtaining the best possible price for your home is making it attractive to the widest possible audience of…
Ten Ways To Make Sure You Have the Best Selling Experience
Be truthful about your motivation to sell as well as any pertinent information regarding the house such as upgrades and…
Twelve Things You Should Expect From Your Realtor
Whether good news or bad, a Realtor is legally bound to tell you the truth. Whatever is happening out there…
How Do I Go About Finding A Terrific Realtor?
The most important thing you can do is invest the time to interview and evaluate up to five Realtors. Not…
Should I Hire a Toronto Realtor?
Choosing the right advisor to guide you through the home selling process is important. A Realtor’s counsel, direction and overall…
Sell My Toronto Home First Or Buy First
SHOULD I SELL FIRST OR BUY FIRST? Dilemma: ‘If I buy first, I might not be able to sell my…
When Is The Best Time To Sell
Marketplace Timing The best time to sell is when Buyers are vigorously buying. The more buyers out there buying, the…
Timing Of Reaching Out To A Realtor
WHEN IS IT APPROPRIATE TO FIRST REACH OUT TO A REALTOR? Good Realtors want to establish solid, long-term relationships with…
Does Your Agent Believe in Listing Syndication?
At Sage we see our role as a brokerage a little differently than some of the other brokerages in Toronto.…
Did Your Basement Survive the Great Flood of 2013?
Were you one of the poor souls whose basement flooded during the great flood of last summer? I know…
How To Price Your Toronto Home
Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) Your home has many values: one established by the municipal tax assessor, another established by the…
My Toronto Home is Not Selling! What can I do?
First and foremost, you must speak honestly and frankly with your agent about your concerns. If your agent is your…
Moving with children
The following tips might particularly benefit families moving into a Toronto neighbourhood from a different community or city; however, many…
Moving checklist
Keeping in mind that you will be run off your feet as the move gets closer, we thought you might…
How to go about choosing the right sales rep
How to go about choosing the right sales rep It is important to take your time selecting a professional to…
Your real estate team
You will acquire your own team of professionals to support you throughout the process. Your first string players are: The…