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Weekly Visitors Pass 200,000 for the 1st time!!!
2008-01-15 17:31:00 ByTheOwner.com received 215,664 visitors to our websites last week. This is up from 147,475 (46% increase!) compared to the same period in 2007 . This is also the 1st time that we have received more than 200,000 in a week. These stats show that the buyers come rushing back after the holiday season has ended. ... More About: Real Estate Market , Time , Weekly , Visitors , Pass
More Financing Options Available For Buyers
2008-01-09 17:48:00 A recent Toronto Star article talks about the different financing options now available to home buyers. The article discusses: - You can now pay off your mortgage over 30 to 40 years, instead of up to 25 years as before. - You can now get a conventional mortgage by putting down 20 per cent of the purchase ... More About: Real Estate Market , Financing , Options , Buyers
Maclean?s Article on the Canadian Real Estate Market
2008-01-08 19:26:00 Maclean’s Magazine recently printed an article on the Canadian Real Estate market until the title “Is it a bubble? Is it about to burst?”. To read the article, please click on the link below: “Is it a bubble? Is it about to burst?” www.bytheowner.com More About: Real Estate , Real Estate Market , Market , Article
ByTheOwner?s December For Sale By Owner Stats: New Listings, Sold Propertie
2008-01-03 14:32:00 Here are ByTheOwner.com?s Canadian For Sale By Owner stats for December 2007: New listings increased 80% from 322 new listings in December 2006, to 580 new listings in December 2007 Sold properties increased 40% from 351 sold properties in December 2006, to 491 sold properties in December 2007. Total active listings increased 55% from 3,400 active homes for ... More About: Real Estate Market , Listings , Stats
ByTheOwner December 2007 Webstats - FSBO Visitors Increase 50%
2008-01-03 14:21:00 ByTheOwner.com?s website statistics for the month of December 2007: Website visitors increased from 348,672 unique visitors in December 2006, to 521,955 in December 2007 . This is a 50% increase in unique website visitors from December 2006 to 2007. Pageviews increased from 3.27 million page views in December 2006, to 4.54 million pageviews in December 2007. This ... More About: Real Estate Market , Visitors , Theo
ByTheOwner.com Head Office Holiday Schedule
2007-12-20 21:28:00 Dear ByTheOwner.com customers and website visitors, During this time of celebration and sharing, we would like to take time to thank you for your continued support and patronage of ByTheOwner.com. It has been a fantastic year for ByTheOwner.com as more than 5,000 of our clients have SOLD and saved! This was a 44% increase in SOLD properties ... More About: Office , Holiday , Real Estate Market , Schedule , Head
ByTheOwner.com Reaches 5,000 SOLD in 2007!!!
2007-12-05 19:21:00 ByTheOwner.com recently passed the 5000 SOLD properties mark in 2007. This is an incredible accomplishment, as it is an increase of more than 40% over 2006 results. ByTheOwner.com is on pace to sell more than 1% of all the homes in Canada this year. Our sold results do not include the sold properties from our ... More About: Real Estate Market , Sold , Theo
ByTheOwner.com November For Sale By Owner Stats: New Listings, Sold Propert
2007-12-04 20:12:00 Here are ByTheOwner.com?s Canadian For Sale By Owner stats for November 2007: New listings increased 54% from 666 new listings in November 2006, to 1024 new listings in November 2007 Sold properties increased 46% from 276 sold properties in November 2006, to 403 sold properties in November 2007. Total active listings increased 56% from 3,700 active homes for ... More About: Real Estate Market , Listings , Stats
ByTheOwner.com November 2007 Webstats - FSBO Visitors Increase 75%
2007-12-04 20:07:00 ByTheOwner.com?s website statistics for the month of November 2007: Website visitors increased from 386,860 unique visitors in November 2006, to 678,038 in November 2007 . This is a 75% increase in unique website visitors from November 2006 to 2007. Pageviews increased from 3.9 million page views in November 2006, to 5.9 million pageviews in November 2007. This ... More About: Real Estate Market , Visitors , Theo
ByTheOwner.com Reaches 5,000 SOLD in 2007!!!
2007-11-27 19:21:00 ByTheOwner.com recently passed the 5000 SOLD properties mark in 2007. This is an incredible accomplishment as it is an increase of more than 40% over 2006 results. ByTheOwner.com is on pace to sell more than 1% of all the homes in Canada this year. The sold results also do not include the sold properties from ... More About: Real Estate Market , Sold , Theo
ByTheOwner.com in Halifax, Vancouver and Montreal Newspapers
2007-11-27 19:15:00 ByTheOwner.com recently appeared in the The Daily News, Halifax, The Province, in Vancouver , and the Montreal Gazette. The articles all discuss ByTheOwner.com’s unique way of helping people sell their home without using a real estate agent and our success to date. Here are links to each article: Montreal Vancouver Halifax www.bytheowner.com More About: Real Estate Market , Newspapers , Theo
Home Staging starts with top quality pictures
2007-11-15 17:24:00 Home Staging starts with good quality real estate portfolio. Since the Internet became readily available in North America, more and more home buyers use the Web to shop for properties and select the ones they want to visit. The latest statistics indicate that over 85% of the potential buyers for YOUR home will use your ... More About: Pictures , Home , Quality , Ality
Montreal Gazette Article Shows Agents and MLS are Falling Behind?
2007-11-05 16:21:00 A great article from this Saturday’s Montreal Gazette talks about Real Estate on the internet. The article points out that “The problem with too many real estate search sites, including the Canadian Real Estate Association’s MLS website, is they offer too little information to satisfy a sophisticated user.” The article also mentions ByTheOwner.com’s French site…”the site ... More About: Real Estate Market , Agents , Article , Gent
ByTheOwner.com October 2007 Webstats - FSBO Visitors Increase 72%
2007-11-01 17:07:00 ByTheOwner October 2007 Webstats - FSBO Visitors Increase 58% ByTheOwner.com?s website statistics for the month of October 2007: Website visitors increased from 436,811 unique visitors in October 2006, to 751,599 in October 2007. This is a 72% increase in unique website visitors from October 2006 to 2007. Pageviews increased from 4.5 million page views in October 2006, ... More About: Real Estate Market , Theo
ByTheOwner.com October For Sale By Owner Stats: New Listings, Sold Properti
2007-11-01 16:59:00 ByTheOwner?s October For Sale By Owner Stats : New Listings , Sold Properties, Active Listings Here are ByTheOwner.com?s Canadian For Sale By Owner stats for October 2007: New listings increased 85% from 621 new listings in October 2006, to 1151 new listings in October 2007 Sold properties increased 20% from 408 sold properties in October 2006, to 478 sold properties ... More About: Real Estate Market
ByTheOwner.com Receives Page Ranking of 5 from Google
2007-10-29 18:35:00 ByTheOwner.com recently received a page ranking of 5 from Google . Page Ranking partly determines the results of google’s search results. Typically sites with a page ranking (PR) of 5 or more will be at the top of related searched. Google does not disclose the science behind page ranking, but typically well designed websites with lots ... More About: Real Estate Market , Theo
ByTheOwner.com ranked as the 6th most visited real estate site in Canada
2007-10-29 18:25:00 A recent Comscore Media Metrix for September 2007 ranked ByTheOwner.com/Duproprio.com as the 6th most visited real estate advertising website in Canada . Here are the results: 1. MLS.ca (www.mls.ca) 2. Remax International (www.remax.ca) 3. Royallepage (www.royallepage.ca) 4. La Capital (www.lacapitalvendu.com) 5. Canoe (www.micasa.canoe.com) 6. ByTheOwner.com/Duproprio.com (www.bytheowner.com) ByTheOwner.com is proud to be amoung the top real estate websites in Canada. It’s important to note ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real Estate Market , Site
Toronto Land Transfer Tax Approved
2007-10-24 14:53:00 Toronto has just passed a new land transfer tax for new home purchases. This new land transfer tax is in addition to the current Ontario land transfer tax that everyone is required to pay. Anyone who has purchased a home has needed to pay the Ontario land transfer tax. In Ontario the tax rates are ... More About: Real Estate Market , Toronto , Transfer , Land , Tran
1% commission in Ireland and England
2007-10-22 20:48:00 I just returned home from a few weeks in Europe. I had a great time! What interested me was the commission rates for real estate agents in England and Ireland . A relative of mine is a real estate agent in Ireland. He has been an agent for more than 25 years. I was shocked when ... More About: Real Estate Market , Commission , Missi
ByTheOwner?s September For Sale By Owner Stats: New Listings, Sold Properti
2007-10-18 13:02:00 Here are ByTheOwner.com?s Canadian For Sale By Owner stats for September 2007: New listings increased 92% from 551 new listings in September 2006, to 1059 new listings in September 2007 Sold properties increased 31% from 372 sold properties in September 2006, to 478 sold properties in September 2007. Total active listings increased 42% from 3,985 active homes for ... More About: Real Estate Market , Listings , Stats
ByTheOwner September 2007 Webstats - FSBO Visitors Increase 58%
2007-10-18 12:29:00 ByTheOwner.com?s website statistics for the month of September 2007: Website visitors increased from 406,719 unique visitors in September 2006, to 645,134 in September 2007 . This is a 58% increase in unique website visitors from September 2006 to 2007. Pageviews increased from 4.1 million page views in September 2006, to 5.8 million pageviews in September 2007. This ... More About: Real Estate Market , Visitors , Theo
Home Staging a «REAL» house ? Kids and all!
2007-10-17 17:33:00 I want to share a recent Home Staging transformation I was involved in. A family with two young children decided to sell their house in order to purchase a larger home. The husband is a real estate agent and wanted to Stage the house, but his wife was resistant to the idea at first. ... More About: House , Kids , Real
Homes sold on ByTheOwner.com in August 2007 : an increase of 63% over last
2007-10-02 15:42:00 According to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). seasonally adjusted sales dropped 4.1 per cent in August to 43,257 units from July’s 45,102. Resale housing sales activity was down in most provinces, particularly in Ontario and Quebec. But the real estate association says sales in August were up 7.7 per cent over sales in the ... More About: Real Estate Market , Homes , August 2007 , Sold
Discount real estate agents face tougher mls rules.
2007-09-25 16:49:00 MLS is changing the rules in order to “protect their MLS trademark”. Here is a recent Real Estate Article from an Ottawa based writer for Canadian Business Magazine. The author also posted some info on his blog about his own experiences selling For-Sale-By-Owner. www.bytheowner.com More About: Real Estate , Agents , Rules , Face
Home Staging ? show me the money!
2007-09-25 15:12:00 Home Staging has become an important and, often, necessary marketing tool to sell a property successfully. What do we mean by success? Usually, the clients are looking to achieve two objectives when putting their property up for sale: they want to sell it quickly and they want to make MONEY, as much money as ... More About: Money , Home , Show , Show Me the Money
Article on phantom bids
2007-09-20 20:45:00 The Toronto Star recently wrote about real estate agents and the practice of phantom bidding tactics. Here is a link to the article: The secret’s out on phantom bids: Registry, open bidding needed to stamp out phony offer scams, some realtors say. www.bytheowner.com More About: Real Estate Market , Phantom , Article , Artic
Questionable tactics in the hot GTA market
2007-09-20 20:28:00 The Toronto Star writes about Bidding and Bitterness : Anger and uncertainty linger in debate over questionable tactics in the hot GTA market. The Toronto star also writes about cheaper ways to sell you home. www.bytheowner.com More About: Real Estate Market , Market , Tactics
ByTheOwner August For Sale By Owner Stats: New Listings, Sold Properties, A
2007-09-04 14:45:00 Here are ByTheOwner .com?s Canadian For Sale By Owner stats for August 2007: New listings increased 61% from 669 new listings in August 2006, to 1080 new listings in August 2007 Sold properties increased 39% from 361 sold properties in August 2006, to 502 sold properties in August 2007. Total active listings increased 30% from 3,970 active homes for ... More About: Listings , Stats
ByTheOwner August 2007 Webstats - FSBO Visitors Increase 57%
2007-09-04 14:27:00 ByTheOwner.com?s website statistics for the month of August 2007: Website visitors increased from 463,560 unique visitors in August 2006, to 729,036 in August 2007 . This is a 57% increase in unique website visitors from August 2006 to 2007. Pageviews increased from 5.0 million page views in August 2006, to 6.5 million pageviews in August 2007. This ... More About: Visitors , Theo
Guide To Building Your Own Home
More articles from this author:2007-08-28 22:09:00 You dream about building your own home but don’t know where to start? ByTheOwner.com lauched today a new section on newhomes.bytheowner.com : Build your own house! From the house plan to the end of your project, “Build your own house” gives information about every step you need to go throught to get a house plan and ... More About: Building , Real Estate Market , Home , Guide , Guid 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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