Recent Blog Posts by CENTURY 21 Colonial Realty Inc.

Stratford Condo Development Cancelled. Slumping Sales Reason ???

Recently there was an announcement that a condo development planned for the Town of Stratford would not happen. The developer cites that potential purchasers could not sell their homes. This is an odd statement that doesn't seem to have any proof...Now I am not calling anyone a liar but in my own personal opinion that no potential purchasers of this condo were willing to put their property on the market ...

If I Am Looking At Real Estate On The Web..Isn't The Purchaser Of My House Too ?

  There has been a huge increase in web traffic in the past 2 years of people searching for all things but especially real estate. With that most Realtors ® have gone out and got a website that they put information about themselves and put their listings on it. Some of the issues with it is keeping properties current with pictures, correct information like price, amenities and especially ...

Bright Outlook for PEI Real Estate Market, Spring 2009 - Lead Story on Compass

Monday, April 13, 2009 - Lead story on Compass (local CBC News show) is about the bright and sunny outlook for the Real Estate market in Prince Edward Island.  The latest MLS sales statistics show that the sales for the first quarter here on PEI are bucking the trends in big cities, and are acutally up.  Watch the video here:

How Will I Ever Find Real Estate Without The Newspaper ?

Recently many of the Brokers in PEI discussed issues within the PEI Real Estate industry and one main topic was the continued use of print media. In the 1980's the brokers got together to do a co operative tabloid real estate supplement within the PEI Newspaper "The Guardian". It was very effective for many years but with the Internet changing how people shop for many items including real estate ...

New Television Campaign

Century 21 Colonial Realty Inc has a new TV campaign running on CBC PEI running on various CBC shows such as Compass the 6 pm Newscast and various other shows such as Hockey Night in Canada. Although I have discussed in the past that Century 21 Canada and Century 21 USA have discontinued TV advertising here on PEI we still have only 1 channel that covers our market. Although the commercial doesn't ...