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Buyer Agent: Why Home Buyers should have their own Agent As a real estate agent, I receive many requests to “Send Me Some Listings”. Many of my competitors are putting out ads that say “Call me for the latest listings”, and it seems that the average house and condo buyer believes that this is all [...]

May is prime time for spring cleaning . photo: Lachlan Hardy There’s nothing like being able to bask in the warm glow of well-being a homeowner gets after finishing a thorough spring cleaning. It’s especially true when you realize how important the annual ritual can be in protecting your greatest asset: your house or condo. [...]

Property Assessment Values compared to Actual Market Value Image via WikipediCity Property Assessment Values . In a recent post, I explained how Market Value really has very little to do with City Property Assessment Value.  That post can be found here. To further prove the point, here are a couple of very different homes in [...]

Canadian Museum for Human Rights . Downtown living is especially exciting in Winnipeg at this time because of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights that is currently being built, expected to launch in 2013. Although it is still in the construction phase, it is already proving to be an innovative work of architecture, situated [...]

Visit Winnipeg’s Exchange District for History and Fun . The Exchange District is one of Winnipeg’s assets and many people forget that there is so much to do there and so many reasons to live there.  It is especially active in the summer with concerts and events.  It is filled with old, historical buildings, fabulous [...]

When someone buys a house or condo, certain closing costs are required. These include legal fees, land titles transfer taxes, other taxes, insurance and moving costs. Here is a summary of these closing costs.

Need to declutter before selling your house or condo? U Need Space is a unique temporary storage system developed in Winnipeg. The company delivers small storage pods to your home, you fill it with your extra and excess furniture, and they come and pick it up and store it in a climate controlled environment until you need the items back. Great for temporary storage while moving.

Land Titles Transfer Taxes in Manitoba are stunningly exorbitant. A $400,000 house will cost the new buyer a tax of $5720, while the same house in Saskatchewan will only cost around $1200.

When condo boards sit down to craft and adjust their condo rules and by-laws, care must be taken to strike a balance between achieving reasonable limitations on the owners, and negatively affecting property values. By-laws which are too restrictive will ultimately hurt resale values.

Sunday Home Owner Section: Recipes from South of the Border . Everyone who buys a house in Winnipeg, condo in Winnipeg or luxury property in Winnipeg with me, receives a copy of Home By Design Magazine.  This wonderful, colourful 52-page publication is filled with articles about decorating, travelling, landscaping and home-cooking ideas.  In today’s section [...]