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ByTheOwner.com Reaches 5,000 Active For-Sale-By-Owner Properties For Sale
2007-08-20 20:36:00 ByTheOwner .com, Canada’s largest For-Sale -By-Owner website, recently reached 5,000 active homes for sale. This is a feat that we are very proud of, especially considering we passed 4,000 homes for sale only a few months ago on June 8, 2007. We pride ourselves on being the best and the biggest FSBO website in Canada. We know that ... More About: For Sale , Real Estate Market , Active
Home Staging really does work ? check the numbers!
2007-08-15 16:11:00 How do you know that Staging a Home for sale will bring you tangible (meaning $$$) benefits ? There are few statistics available on the subject and every marketplace being different, it?s hard to measure the exact impact Home Staging has on a sale. But, based on 2003 statistics provided by StagedHomes.com, a price increase ... More About: Work , Check , Numbers , Ally
ByTheOwner.com reaches 15,000 SOLD properties
2007-08-15 15:26:00 ByTheOwner.com recently passed 15,000 sold properties! Since we started in 1997, we have consistently sold more properties each year: 1998 - 35 Sold Prop erties 1999 - 105 Sold Properties 2000 - 220 Sold Properties 2001 - 614 Sold Properties 2002 - 1059 Sold Properties 2003 - 1528 Sold Properties 2004 - 2269 ... More About: Pert , Rope
ByTheOwner.com Reaches $200 Million in Commissions Saved
2007-08-08 16:39:00 ByTheOwner.com recently passed $200 million in commissions saved. This represents the commission that was not paid to a real estate agent. ByTheOwner.com’s clients save between 5-7% of their home’s value by not using agents. We have helped close to 15,000 owner’s sell their home privately with no agents and no commissions. Congratulations to all our ... More About: Real Estate Market , Commissions , Million , Theo , Missi
July For Sale By Owner Stats:Listings and Sold Properties
2007-08-02 19:05:00 Here are ByTheOwner .com’s housing and listing stats for July 2007: New listings increased 35% from 717 new listing in July 2006, to 968 new listings in July 2007 Sold properties increased 45% from 302 sold properties in July 2006, to 439 sold properties in July 2007. Total active listings increased 23% from 3,900 active homes for sale in ... More About: For Sale , Listings , Sale , Stats
For Sale By Owner July 2007 Webstats - Visitors Increase 92%
2007-08-02 17:27:00 ByTheOwner .com’s website statistics for the month of July 2007 : Website visitors increased from 339,286 unique visitors in July 2006, to 651,086 in July 2007. This is a 94% increase in unique website visitors from July 2006 to 2007. Pageviews increased from 3.7 million page views in July 2006, to 5.8 million pageviews in July 2007. ... More About: For Sale , Sale , Visitors
Real Estate Lawyer Offers Great Advice
2007-07-31 16:03:00 Here is a link to a recent Toronto Star article. The author offers some great advice on always having a real estate lawyer review the offer to purchase contract before signing, even if you are using an agent. http://www.thestar.com/article/239955 Agents often advertise that they are able to deal with the legal aspects of the offer-to-purchase and ... More About: Advice , Estate , Real Estate , Lawyer , Real Estate Market
ByTheOwner.com?s Google Search Results
2007-07-24 18:32:00 Excellent search engine results usually take a lot of work and a lot of time. At ByTheOwner.com, we think our recent results are very impressive! 3 months ago, as soon as we realized that we were almost invisible on Google .ca while our french website, DuProprio.com, was doing very well, we decided to brainstorm and establish a ... More About: Real Estate Market , Results , Search , Google Search
Toronto Star Article on the Bidding wars in Toronto
2007-07-23 21:01:00 There was a very interesting article in the Toronto Star this weekend about the process buying a home with a real estate agent in a hot market. Here is an excerpt from the article and a link … “The process is conducted in the dark by real estate agents working on commission and with a vested interest in the highest ... More About: Real Estate Market , Wars , Article
For Sale By Owner Partnership: ByTheOwner.com and Saskhouses.com
2007-07-18 15:39:00 AND ByTheOwner .com has just formed a strategic partnership with Saskhouses.com. All Saskhouses.com listings (Approximately 360 active homes), we be listed on ByTheOwner.com. ByTheOwner.com’s 150,000 visitors per week will be able to view all of Saskhouses.com’s properties. This will provide national exposure for all Saskhouses’ listings. All homes listed on Saskhouses will automatically be listed on ByTheOwner.com. Anyone looking to ... More About: For Sale , Sale , Ship , Ouse
ByTheOwner.com Forums are a Big Hit with our customers
2007-07-12 20:06:00 ByTheOwner.com recently launched our new Forum so that our customers can easliy communicate with each other. Each person selling a home with ByTheOwner.com can post questions and answers to any topic they choose. The forum can only be used by sellers. Since this service was launched at the beginning of July, There have ... More About: Real Estate Market , Customers , Forums , Custom , Theo
Home Staging the outside ? it counts too !
2007-07-11 22:23:00 When we discuss Home Staging , we usually talk about the property?s interior and what needs to be done to make it look its best. What is sometimes neglected is the outside which also needs to be decluttered, cleaned and decorated. After all, the buyer?s first impression will be of the outside and the landscaping of ... More About: The O
Interest Rates for Mortgages Increase
2007-07-10 21:55:00 Today the Bank of Canada increased their key interest rates to 4.5 per cent and they predict more increases in the near future. Higher interest rates result in buyers not being able to afford higher priced homes. For example, a 10 year fixed rate at ING Direct was 6.05% before the interest rate hike, and now it is 6.15%. At the ... More About: Real Estate Market , Interest Rates , Mortgages , Interest , Gage
3000 For Sale By Owner (FSBO) Sales in Ontario
2007-06-22 15:59:00 ByTheOwner.com reached 3000 sales in Ontario ! This is a great accomplishment. You can see our growth below. Every year has been better than the last. Our average house for sale price in Ontario is approximately $310,000, which means that the average home sold on our site saves more than $16,000 in commissions and GST. (assuming 5% ... More About: For Sale , Real Estate Market , Sales , Sale
Real Estate Agents In Barrie Are On The Defensive
2007-06-18 21:21:00 It looks like the Barrie Real Estate board is trying to use billboard adveriting to promote their services…or perhaps they are cross training to become doctors? Our Barrie rep, John Babic, thought this was quite funny so he took this photo for our blog. What do you think about this photo? www.bytheowner.com More About: Real Estate , Real Estate Market , Agents
More info on ByTheOwner.com and Canada?s Top 100 can be Found at Yahoo Fina
2007-06-18 20:48:00 This is the link to the article that accompanied the Profit 100 Fastest Growing Companies. Here is the section about ByTheOwner.com… “…Another success story, Charny, Que.-based DuProprio.com/ByTheOwner.com (No. 90), offers a different lesson in responding to opportunity: decide fast, then get on with it. The for-sale-by-owner real estate website, with five-year revenue growth of 656%, to $2.3 ... More About: Yahoo , Real Estate Market , Canada , Info , Top 100
Place your home on Facebook: ByTheOwner.com develops Facebook Application
2007-06-15 19:34:00 ByTheOwner.com’s properties for sale can now take advantage of the 30 Million Facebook users! On June 14th, ByTheOwner.com released our exclusive Facebook application. The application was built by our programmers and it allows our properties (Front photo and info) to be uploaded to Facebook. Facebook is on it’s way to becoming the most visited website in the world. ... More About: Home , Place , Application , Lace
Selling A Home Can Be Affected By Higher Interest Rates
2007-06-14 20:24:00 The Globe and Mail reported today that interest rates in Canada have been on the rise lately. This can have an effect on the real estate market: “On a $300,000 mortgage with an amortization period of 25 years, a home buyer with a 4.99-per-cent mortgage would make monthly payments of $1,743.11, according to RBC’s online mortgage ... More About: Selling , Real Estate Market , Interest Rates , Home , Interest
MLS vs FSBO - Study Proves For-Sale-By-Owner is Better
2007-06-12 15:38:00 What a great day for FSBO! On June 7th, 2007, Northwestern University released an independent, unbiased report (linked here) concluding that “MLS offers no advantage in the sale price ” At ByTheOwner .com, we have often heard agents claim that they will get you “more money” and that their commission is “worth it” because they can “put your ... More About: For Sale , Real Estate Market , Study , Sale
Online Properties For Sale Reaches 4,000 For The 1st Time.
2007-06-08 16:39:00 Today ByTheOwner.com’s online properties for sale reached 4,000 . This is the 1st time that the company has passed this plateau. This is excellent news for both sellers and buyers because: more homes online results in greater selection for buyers, and more homes online means more buyers for our sellers. It’s a great cycle! ByTheOwner.com looks ... More About: For Sale , Time , Sale , Online , Line
Home Staging - how much is just enough ?
2007-06-07 16:49:00 So, you decided to invest a few hundred dollars to prepare your house for sale. But how much should you budget ? How much home staging is enough ? And what are the top priorities ? These are the questions which I often encounter from clients. The answer is ? it ... More About: Home , Staging
Real Estate Housing Market Grows in both FSBO and Agent Sales
2007-06-05 14:41:00 The housing market in Canada is setting a record pace this year. Both ByTheOwner.com sales and mls.ca sales have increased in 2007. It was reported that mls.ca sales increased 1.5% in April 2007. Year-to-date sales of homes by agents have increased 6.7% so far this year. ByTheOwner.com’s sales have also increased. April’s sales grew by 52% ... More About: Agent , Estate , Real Estate , Real Estate Market , Market
HGTV Designed to Sell Website Has Great Suggestions for Selling
2007-06-05 14:05:00 HGTV has great tips on how to get ready to sell your home and how to stage your home. Their Designed to Sell program is all about staging your home and making appeal to buyers so that you can make the best impact and get the most money for your home. There is no doubt that ... More About: Website , Selling , Great
Top 100 Fastest Growing Canadian Companies: ByTheOwner.com is #90
2007-06-05 13:59:00 ByTheOwner .com is proud to announce that we have been listed at #90 on Canadian Business Magazine’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies ! Canadian Business is Canada’s top magazine for news, opinion and community for business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors. Each year they release a list of the fastest growing Canadian companies over the past 5 years. This ... More About: Rowing
CMHC Canadian Home and Mortgage Corportation Offers Home Hunting Worksheet
2007-06-01 22:01:00 The CMHC, Canadian Home and Mortgage Corportation, has designed at worksheet to help buyers compare 3 different houses. The worksheet can be a great tool to make sure that, as a buyer, you did not overlook any aspect of the home(s) that you are considering purchasing. The work sheet can be found by clicking here The worksheet ... More About: Offers , Gage
Mesh Web Conference - ByTheOwner will be there!
2007-05-29 20:22:00 ByTheOwner .com will have 3 representatives at the 2007 Mesh Conference. The Mesh Conference is Canada’s premier Web conference, and it is being held in Toronto on May 30th & 31st, 2007. It is a chance to connect with people who are excited about the potential of the Web? people who want to know more about ... More About: Real Estate Market , There , Ferenc
RBC Royal Bank Mortgage Website Has Tips for FSBO
2007-05-29 20:02:00 The Royal Bank of Canada’s Mortgage website has tips for selling your own home. They do point out all the money that can be saved selling privately and they also mention “pitfalls” to selling your own home. ByTheOwner.com thinks it’s great that Canada’s Largest Bank has discussed selling privately on their website. However, we do have ... More About: Website , Real Estate Market , Tips
Homes for sale by owner in Ontario - May Inventory
2007-05-29 15:52:00 ByTheOwner.com is Canada’s Largest FSBO website with an average of more than 150 000 weekly unique visitors in 2007. Below is our May 2007 inventory of our current active listings of for-sale-by-owner homes. These are homes for sale with no agents: Private sales Kitchener-Waterloo 65 Barrie 61 Brampton 61 London 60 Metro Toronto 59 Vaughan 35 Mississauga 31 Bracebridge 16 Oro-Medonte 15 Scarborough 15 Orillia 14 Richmond Hill 12 Grand Bend 11 Markham 11 Guelph 10 Parry Sound 9 Woodbridge 9 Aurora 8 Hamilton 8 Oshawa 8 Penetanguishene 8 Thornhill 8 Woodstock 8 Wyevale 8 Other notable cities will 7 listings or less incude: Ajax, Alliston, ... More About: For Sale , Real Estate Market , Sale , Inventory , Homes
Muskoka Home Sale - Owner sets a new record
2007-05-24 05:21:00 ByTheOwner.com set a new record today! We just had a $1,400,000 Lot in Muskoka sell privately in less than 1 month! This is the most expensive property that we have ever had sell on our website! And of course this sets a new record for the most commissions saved! Real Estate commissions in Muskoka vary, so ... More About: Real Estate Market , Home , Sets , New Record , Sale
How to sell your home privately
More articles from this author:2007-05-23 16:39:00 ByTheOwner.com / DuProprio.com is seeing a slight change in our customer base. When we first started out in Quebec city in 1997, we were mainly a new advertising form for people who were already selling privately. Owners who were accustom to using newspapers and small signs to sell their home privately, realized that posting photos ... More About: Real Estate Market , Home , Sell , Riva 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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