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2 Fabulous Open Houses for you to visit this weekend - January 15th from 2-4pmWant a great family home in one of Barrhaven's most popular neighbourhoods? Enjoy outdoor living, want the kids to be safe playing on the street? This is the ideal home for you - 16 Yarwood Court (www.16YarwoodCourt.com).
This Minto Princeton model is approximately 2750 sq feet of living space with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms and a main floor family room. It's located on one of ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on January 11, 2012
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21 Reasons to list with The Armstrong Team - Reason #3A website designed and created for your home.
For every home we list we create a unique website for the home. It showcases the property with professional photographs, virtual tours, mapping, and detail descriptions that are designed to encourage potential buyers to call or view the home. These websites make it easy for potential buyers to easily obtain information about the home and ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on December 29, 2011
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21 Reasons to list with The Armstrong Team - Reason #2
Experience - We have been selling Real Estate in Barrhaven, Nepean, Kanata and Ottawa for the past 25 years. Joyce was born and rasied here and David has lived in Ottawa since 1974. We have raised our two children in Barrhaven were they attend school, participated in sports and cultural activities, worked, socialized and grew-up. We also own properties in Barrhaven and Kanata. ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on December 22, 2011
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Ottawa Real Estate Market Still Strong in November
Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,020 residential properties in November through the Board's Multiple Listing Service® system compared with 940 in November 2010, an increase of 8.5 per cent. The five-year average for November sales is 881. Of those 1,020 sales, 244 were in the condominium property class, while 776 were in the residential property class. The condominium property ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on December 14, 2011
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21 Reasons to list with the Armstrong Team - Reason #1Your Home on Century21.ca
Century21.ca is a powerful marketing tool that exposes your home to millions of potential buyer on the internet ever month. Our franchise website gives you several advantages including;
Showcase 21 - 21 high definition pictures that help engage the buyer and encourages them to book an appointment to view your home. They can view the pictures in ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on November 25, 2011
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Career in Real Estate20 some years ago I was a Recreation Director at a local Community Centre looking at another 35+ years to retirement and realized I couldn't see myself doing that job for another 35+ years. So I took a chance and decided to get my real estate license. I got into real estate just as the market started to drop and i'll admit there were a lot of challenges in the first few years ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on October 20, 2011
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NEW LISTING - 109 Mountshannon Drive
NEW LISTING! - 109 Mountshannon Drive, Barrhaven. Excellent value for this 3 bedroom, 2 bath endunit townhouse in popular Longfields. Listed at $257,900. The home features an open concept main living space with laminate wood floors. The living room and dining room are great for family or entertaining. The kitchen has refinished cabinets and counters with new hardware ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on December 16, 2010
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Fabulous Barrhaven Family Home.JUST LISTED! - 4 Shanel Place, Old Barrhaven. Check out this great family home located in Old Barrhaven. Walking distance to shopping, great schools, Walter Baker Centre. Home has great space, nice upgrades and huge potential. Visit www.4Shanel.com for more details and pictures.
Posted by David Armstrong
on July 13, 2010
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Canadian Mortgage Market Manging Risk.The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals CAAMP released a press release today that indicates that the Canadian Mortgage Market and Canadians in general are manging the risk of higher interest rates. Here is the press for more details contact me and we can arrange to discuss the report in detail and how it impacts on you and your real estate holdings.
Press: Research shows ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on January 14, 2010
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If you don"t buy a house now, You're stupid or broke!Wow! What a headline. This was the title of an article in Business Week recently (http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/dec2009/bw2009127_753974.htm). The title was designed to grab attention but some people may have been put off by the opening line.
It's a great article that talks about the facts of buying a home and that now maybe the the best time to do so. It's an American ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on December 11, 2009
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Making it easier to find homes on Century21.caCentury 21 Canada and wheretolive.com have just relaunched the century21.ca platform making it more friendly and easy to use for you the customer. Already the most visited franchise website in Canada and the second largest real estate website it's know easier to use and search. The video will walk you through the updates and explain how to use them.
Posted by David Armstrong
on November 25, 2009
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Another Successful Sale!We have just successfully help Tammy, Glenn and family sell their home in Manotick, www.5438Riverside.com. It was a pleasure working with them to get their home sold and moving on to their new home. We wish them much happiness in their new home.
Find out more about how we can help you and your family sell your current home or buy a new one call us at 613-867-9921 ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on November 12, 2009
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How to hire a Home Inspector.In my last blog I ranted a little about a Home Inspector who did an inspection on one of my listings and scared off the buyer when in fact he made an error. I asked how do we hold them accountable? The bottom line answer is with great difficulty so the next question is how do you find a good one. I asked my Home Inspector, Harry Bradford for his insight. I have worked with Harry ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on October 2, 2009
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Real Estate Marketing has changed.The old days of a sign on your property and and ad in the paper are long past in the marketing of real estate. Today your agent's marketing plan should include;
1) A personal website for your home, see www.29overlake.com
2) Blogs about your home, see www.century21.ca/david.armstrong/blog
3) Facebook and Twitter posts about your home, see http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Kanata-ON/David-Armstrong-Joyce-Armstrong-Brokers-Century-21-John-DeVries-Ltd/56926808488 ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on July 17, 2009
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First Impressions and Home Buyers.So you have decided to sell your house, use a realtor or sell on your own, the old saying "you only get one chance to make a good first impression" is so very true when it comes to real estate.
Again this past week I was out showing homes to buyers and I was amazed to find so many homes unprepared for sale. Walking up the driveway and the buyers are commenting on how poorly maintained the yard ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on July 6, 2009
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How simple?Yesterday I attended a session hosted by Century 21 about it's website strategy and website www.century21.ca. The session was hosted by staff from wheretolive.com the designers of the website.
We talked about strategy and design but the most important thing was about traffic. Why do consumers really visit real estate websites? to find out about a house they have seen, either in an ad, ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on June 3, 2009
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The BEST House?If you are buying you need to be informed of prices, neighbourhoods and house styles and how they will impact your quality of life and the long term investment that you are making.
I recently worked with a buyer who fell in love with a house that we all felt was priced a little high. We looked closely at the comparables and all things considered the house should have been listed about ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on May 15, 2009
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Doom and Gloom in the Media.Reading recent reports in the media and you would believe that all is doom and gloom in Real Estate in Ottawa. The market is/has changed from the booming times of 2007/early 2008 or even the early 2000's, but it is far from doom and gloom. There are still buyers buying and sellers selling. The important thing to remember if you are doing either is your response to the market ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on February 12, 2009
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Preparing your House for Sale.What do you need to do to prepare your house for sale? I'm often asked this question and it has become a more and more important questions in the past few years. Why? I believe because a lot of buyers are watching HGTV and seeing hearing what the experts are saying. This changes their perception and perception is reality. Buyers now view homes and if they aren't in tip ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on January 26, 2009
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Ottawa Real Estate Market ReviewOttawa Real Estate Market Report.
The year end statistics are out and the Ottawa Real Estate Market has shown mixed results that clearly indicates a changing market but certainly not the doom and gloom spread by the media. Statistically our average house price has risen by 6.3%, while the number of sales has declined by 5.7% and the number of listing has increased by 7.7% , when compared ...
Posted by David Armstrong
on January 21, 2009
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