Recent Blog Posts by David Armstrong

21 Reasons to list with The Armstrong Team - Reason #3

A 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 ...

Career in Real Estate

20 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 ...

New Listing - 330 Loretta Ave., South, #204

The Norfolk at Merrion Square is a brand new Domicile built Condominium Apartment in the heart of Ottawa and just a short walk from Dow's Lake, Little Italy and the Civic hospital.  Located just off Carling Ave it is an easy commute to downtown or the west end of Ottawa. This unit is 1220 sqaure feet of luxury.  Enjoy two spacious bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms and a unique floor plan that ...

New Social Media Guide keeps Century 21 Sales Associates up-to-date with Technology

CENTURY 21 Canada unveiled the latest tool in its web marketing strategy to it's  real estate sales professionals and brokers attending the CENTURY 21 Insight Path to Profit.    The CENTURY 21 Canada Social Media Guide was developed by Heather Angus-Lee, former journalist and now President of PROSocial Media. The guide is published in French and English in the form of an e-book ...

New Year, New Career?

Century 21 John DeVries is currently looking to add 5 new sales associates to it's award winning team. Are you looking for a high energy, financially rewarding, customer/people oriented business opportunity? Then you should consider a Career in Real Estate.  We offer outstanding opportunities to Sales Associates and a huge variety of proven tools and services to help you succeed. Tools ...

Making it easier to find homes on Century21.ca

Century 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.

Century 21 John DeVries Ltd. welcomes Jon Whittaker to it's Sales team.

Jon Whittaker moved to Ottawa from Sudbury as a teenager and loves the city he has made it home.  Jon and his wife, of ten years, Julie make up the dynamic Whittaker Team.  Jon brings to the team a wealth of business and life experience.  Jon graduated from Algonquin College as a System Support Specialist  and has worked in the IT arena in a variety of positions for many ...

Update Listing - 5438 Riverside Crescent, Manotick

Visit www.5438riverside.com for details and pictures of this fabuloous listing on Popular Manotick's North Island.

New Listing - 5438 Riverside Cres, Manotick, Ontario

  Just Listed 5438 Riverside Cres, Manotick. Fabulous family home on the North Island in sought after Manotick. 2+2 bedroom Hi-ranch with a main floor den. Great yard (116 x 167) with inground pool. Loads of recent renovations all we need is a fami...ly to buy it. 21 pictures and Virtual tour to follow. Showings start Monday don't miss out.  

Welcome Cristy Rousson.

Cristy Rousson has joined the Century 21 John DeVries Sales team as a Sales Representative.  She will work with Connie Rivington-Howie as a Buyer Agent.  Cristy has been an unlicensed assistant working with Connie for the past year.  Some of you may recognize Cristy from the Rink were she is a figure skating instructor or the YMCA were is is a personal fitness instructor.  Cristy ...

A Milestone Reached

The Management and Staff wish Dale Penstone a Happy 70th Birthday.  Dale has been a hugely successful, award winning Realtor with our company since 1985.  She has managed an office for the company, has been involved in training and assisting many of our new agents as they start their career.  While Dale has reduced her sales volume over the past few years she still actively works ...

47 Tobermory Crescent is Sold!

Sold in 2 days for full price!  Townhomes in Kanata are a hot commoditiy and selling very well.  We have had several experiences recently of homes selling in hours or days at or over full price.  This home was priced well and sold immediately.  There is a high demand for this type of home in Ottawa's west end.  If you are thinking of selling your freehold town house call ...

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 ...

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, ...