Edmonton Real Estate Blog

April showers bring May flowers. Spring brings more buyers looking for homes and we’ve collected some useful tips and tricks for maximizing your visibility.

#1. Get your garden into tip-top shape. We cannot emphasize this one enough. Clean up the debris and planting some frost resistant plants wouldn’t hurt. Even cheating and getting some silk flowers will add a pop of color and you don’t need to water them.

Put on your gloves and do some spring cleaning. Both inside and out. Don’t forget the sunshine is now streaming through your windows so any dust or dirt or streaks will show up on them. Wipe down the window sills too and your house will now be in top selling form.

#2. Bye Bye Gloves and Jackets. With Spring being sprung, you most likely won’t be needing those sweaters, boots and bulky winter coats until next winter, so let’s get them out of the closets. Box them up and put them into storage. This will help make your home look even less cluttered.

#3. Brighten up the entryway. The first point of contact your buyers have with your home is the entryway. Even though flowers aren’t in bloom, you can cheat here easily. Place some silk plants in some pretty pots by the doorway. Everyone loves a cheery pop of color after a long grey winter.

#4. Bring the outdoors indoor. Spring is so much more than just colors and sunshine; it’s also beautiful fresh flowers blooming. There isn’t quite anything like the fresh burst of aroma radiating from a lilac bush in bloom. It fills you up with a sense of well being. Instead of spraying harsh artificial air fresheners, place some lilacs and other in bloom plants strategically around your home where visitors will notice them. This will also have them stop to enjoy the scent and – of course – more time spent in your home.

#5. Bring out the bright. While you are packing away your winter wardrobe, tuck away all the warm colors of fall and winter and throw in some bright spring colors. Putting out some new cushions and throws will completely change the feel of a room. If possible, change the curtains to add more cheerful brightness. Add in some bright candles and a table scarf and your entire room will be transformed into a cheerful, bright and happy Spring Themed room.

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Is there anything on the market under $100,000.00? There actually is! Make sure you check out those condo documents before you sink your money in.

$62,900 ­— 12711 118 Avenue
Two-bedroom condo on the third floor of a walk-up apartment building in central Inglewood.

$79,900 ­— 10620 114 Street
One bedroom 548 square feet apartment condo in Queen Mary Park.

$89,000 — 10939 109th Street
One bedroom unit in the basement of a building built in 1979 in Central McDougall.

$89,900 — 13230 Fort Road
Bright blue, green and purple walls decorate this cheerful little one-bedroom condo in Belvedere.

$89,000 — 11735 124 Street
This 400 square feet condo looks well kept with fairly new appliances and kitchen cabinets in Inglewood.

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Here are the Walker Real Estate Stats for Walker Single Family homes in the past 30 days.

As of today there are 34 single family homes for sale
In the past 30 days there were 5 single family homes sold.

So, finally, the figures are out! In an independent research for done for year end 2014, the statistics (Listing sold, MLS) show that RE/MAX holds 41.4% of the Edmonton real estate market share. That is more than our next 3 combined competitors!

Just in case you’ve not been following our recent blogs (hope you do now), according to RE/MAX Western Canada, Team Leading Edge was the No. 1 RE/MAX real estate team from Edmonton for the month of February 2015

Again, it just goes to show how dedicated all RE/MAX Realtors are and how Team Leading Edge is bent on providing the best quality real estate service for all Edmontonians.

In the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out upgrades into our websites to provide faster access into the market, so do visit our sister site Edmonton-Real-Estate.com to be on the loop!

If you’re looking for your dream home, let us help find it through our new and improved Edmonton MLS listings and remember to call us at 780-634-8151. We’d love to help make that dream home, a reality!

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A new review have been conducted that shows to offer key experiences that change the normal home purchaser profile, particularly for people that fall in the Millennial age section. Realize what area are related motivating to push numerous Edmonton home buys.

Edmonton Real estate buyers need better conveniences close to their home. In the report, members reviewed demonstrated the accompanying variables as considered what (generally) home purchasers might most want to have near to the home they plan to purchase:

* Grocery stores – 63% are fine with a snappy commute; 22% need a simple stroll to get nourishment supplies

* Restaurants and eateries – 56% say a short commute away is awesome; 20% just need to stroll there

* Parks, ways and group space – 40% are alright with a short commute; 35% organize inside a mobile separation

* Healthcare suppliers – 62% say a negligible commute lives up to expectations; 10% need a mobile separation

* Local shops – 57% short commute; 12% need the joys of a mobile separation

View the complete Goldman Sach’s  info graphic here.

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Another opening for work can be an energizing, and frequently groundbreaking knowledge. Be that as it may it can mean more than simply changing your occupation title. For some, it means moving to another country or city, which can be an enormous undertaking, whether you’re single and moving alone, or on the off chance that you have a mate, kids, and a couple of pets.

(For a complete list of Edmonton homes for sale, check out our new and improved Edmonton MLS listings. You will find variety of homes that would perfectly fit your relocating budget!)

Before choosing whether or not you are prepared to move, or on the off chance that its justified, despite all the trouble, do a little research about the accompanying subjects to verify that you’ll be upbeat in your new position.

Is This a Changeless or Impermanent Migration?

In the event that its simply an impermanent move you don’t have to stress over purchasing another home or whether the long haul economy will influence you. Interim moves can happen for a wide range of reasons, whether to set up another office or to finish an agreement with a customer.

Changeless moves imply that you will be living in the new area for a long time to come, with no foreordained end date. These sorts of moves oblige substantially more arranging and thought, since they frequently mean removing your current circumstance totally.

Family Contemplations

In the event that you have youngsters, you’ll need to investigate neighborhoods, schools, and the training framework when all is said in done. Wrongdoing rates, go times, and comforts are likewise things that could influence how you feel about moving to another city.

Your companion ought to examine what openings for work are accessible, and whether they will have the capacity to effortlessly discover work.

Some moving families decide to live separated briefly until the timing is better, for example, when their youngsters are on summer break, or the companion who is living endlessly has concluded that they need to keep their new occupation. This provides for you the time to offer your ebb and flow home, do in-individual research on the new area, and to choose on the off chance that its the opportune spot for you or your gang.

Money related Contemplations

A huge move can cost a ton of cash, regardless of where you are moving to. At times, for example, with another occupation, your migration costs will be secured, however in the event that you’re moving for different reasons, you’ll likely need to set aside before you go on your enterprise.

You ought to do some examination in the accompanying regions to see whether moving is fiscally shrewd for you:

The expense of purchasing or leasing an Edmonton home in your general vicinity, and that it is so natural to offer on the off chance that you choose to clear out.

Is the nearby economy solid, stable, or lessening, and by what method will that influence you?

In the event that this opportunity doesn’t work for you, are there a lot of different occupations in your field of mastery?

What amount of would it say it is going to cost you to move? Will you have any reserve funds cleared out?

What is your budgetary go down arrangement?

Living costs and how much your financial plan will change.

Your budgetary standing will have an enormous effect on your capacity to move, as well as what your living circumstance will be similar to in your new city or town. You may need to change your exercises to suit higher living costs, or you may observe that you can set aside reserve funds every month.

Individual Inclination

When you make sense of in the event that its the right choice for your family, and your funds, now is the ideal time to get down to the points of interest. You should take advantage of your new open door, so put forth these inquiries before you begin searching for a spot to live:

Would I like to live in the city, or outside of town?

What conveniences are vital for me?

How am I going to drive?

Am I going to scale down my belonging before and purchase new later, or am I bringing everything with me?

Am I going to fly or drive? Do I need movers?

Do I have pets that I have to transport too?

How is the atmosphere where I am going?

On the off chance that you plan to make your new area your perpetual home, attempt to make the best of it by picking where you are going to live, and what you might want to have close by before you take off. Having a smart thought of what you are searching for will make the methodology less demanding and less upsetting.

Work Specifics

In the event that you are moving in view of another occupation, verify that there’s a robust offer on the table, with an agreement set up. Moving to another area, whether all alone or with your family, is a genuine choice. It’s best to be as certain as could be allowed about your position and your future before choosing to migrate.

Converse with your new executive about:

Moving costs

Professional stability

Contract length

Your obligations

The Choice to Migrate

Eventually, the choice to migrate is an individual one that is in light of various variables. At the point when moving to an alternate city or state, its a smart thought to counsel a broker around there, as they are educated about things, for example, the economy, neighborhoods, and luxuries that may be critical to you.

You have to settle on the choice to proceed onward your own, yet you don’t have to experience the procedure independent from anyone else. Utilize experts where you can to make it less demanding and less distressing on you and your family, and plan ahead to guarantee that you have considered every contingency.

Would you migrate for work? Have you migrated for different reasons?

Edmonton is one of the best places in Canada to own a rental property-that’s no secret. It’s growing population together with the strong economy creates the most conducive environment for such a venture.

(If you have not yet bought your first investment property, worry not! Check out our new and improved Edmonton MLS listings for a great list of properties for sale).

Today, we gathered a few methods that would help you collect rent faster and easier this 2015.

It ought to shock no one that most youthful school understudies have never really composed a check. Things are different now altogether! The old methods for paying rent are gradually getting to be dated and less great throughout today’s era of tenants. We should survey a mixture of installment strategies and the advantages and disadvantages for each.

Hard Cash:

Cash is king, as the platitude goes. This isn’t generally the situation with regards to paying lease however. Numerous Edmonton home owners with a space for rent inside their home would happily take money as installment; in any case, understudy lodging administrators, renting organizations and property supervisors will probably not acknowledge cash.

Asking why?

Cash should for the most part be acknowledged in individual. Proprietors and property owners would not need an inhabitant leaving  bricks of cash at the property or sending it through the mail.

Cash makes all the more a bother. The landowner would need to get the cash, give a receipt every month, and afterward make a bank deposit instantly.

Cash doesn’t leave as powerful a paper trail for records, particularly in the event that its not represented appropriately. There are far simpler systems for installment for both proprietors and occupants.

Individual Check:

Checks are most helpful for landowners and property supervisors, as the bookkeeping methodology is simplest. At the point when a check clears the bank, it in a split second makes a record of installment. The issue is that a great deal of understudy leaseholders don’t have checks, have never composed a check, or want to pay in an alternate way.

Different issues to consider are the potential for ricocheted checks, related managing an account charges, a helpful system to gather checks, and so forth.

Credit Card:

Credit Cards are a more helpful system for installment, in correlation to cash or checks. As a rule, most inhabitants will have a credit card(s) to utilize. Tenants can mastermind to have their month to month rent paid naturally to the landowner.

In any case, there are a few cons to think about. Landowners will quite often bring about a preparing expense for Credit Card exchanges, unless they exchange these charges to the inhabitant. Also, tenants can document chargebacks where they question the charge. For this situation, the landowner must quickly react to the question and give definite documentation to the exchange, to demonstrate that the sum ought not be discounted. Chargeback question are uncommon however when they do emerge, the Visa organization regularly agrees with the cardholder.

Electronic Deposit or E-Transfer:

Electronic store regularly includes an occupant exchanging the rental cash to a landowner’s ledger, straightforwardly through web managing an account. This alternative is getting to be desirable over understudies, as it is shabby (there may be insignificant expenses to the occupant for exchanging the stores), its greatly snappy and inconceivably helpful. Electronic stores or E-exchanges could be possible through any web managing an account administration and it just pauses a moment or two.

The main drawback for this sort of installment is that the landowner must furnish inhabitants with a financial balance number and numerous property managers would prefer not to reveal such individual data. As an answer, a few landowners select to make a different financial balance, particularly utilized for stores from their rental units.

PayPal:

PayPal can be a decent alternative for both proprietors and occupants. A great many people are acquainted with the stage and it just takes minutes to sign up for a record. On the off chance that both the occupant and proprietor have PayPal records, they can undoubtedly exchange the cash utilizing the payee’s email address. Robotized installments can be set up also.

The significant drawbacks to PayPal, notwithstanding, are the expenses connected with a vendor account and the exchange charges. Exchange expenses are by and large around 2% and a dealer record on PayPal expenses give or take $30 every month.

At last, every Edmonton investor must pick which installment system works best for both themselves and their inhabitants. A savvy, helpful and simple to-utilize rent accumulation procedure is a top need for proprietors.

There is a considerable measure of media and savant buzz about Al­berta being in earnest straits because of the drop in oil costs. However, in 2009, oil costs tumbled to US$50 a barrel and we heard the same figures then. Also take a gander at Alberta now.

Each area ought to have these issues.

Alberta created a large portion of the occupations in Canada a year ago, has close full job and the most astounding earnings in the nation.

The territory has estimate an overflow of almost $1billion in 2014-15, while direct oil sovereignties represent just 18 every penny of Alberta’s incomes, as indicated by the prov- incal government.

In the event that Alberta were its own nation, it would rank No. 3 on the planet in the matter of the Human Development Index, an United Na­tions worldwide measure of pay, training and future, as per the Center for the Study of Living Standards.

With only 4.1 million inhabitants, Alberta has a terrible local result of $84,390 every capita, third most astounding on the planet, in light of rankings from the International Monetary Fund.

The territory has the second­ most reduced unemployment rate in Canada and the most noteworthy wages, at more than $1,100 every week.

And the third-biggest pet­roleum holds on the planet, Alberta has one of the world’s most gainful agrarian parts, with more than 50 million sections of land under harvests and animals.

Normal yearly venture every capita is $27,617 in Alberta, more than twofold the Canadian normal and characteristic of the area’s startup, heads-up, non-stop state of mind.

Today, just 2 every penny of Al­berta’s demonstrated oil stores are being mined and it will keep on delivering oil for a vitality hungry world for quite a long time, maybe cen­turies, to come.

A late study from the Canadian Energy Research Institute estimates Alberta oilsands creation will achieve 3.7 million barrels a day by 2020 and 5.2 in 2013.

Yet Alberta is a great deal more than oil.

This is a broadened economy where fund, land and development create as much as the oil and gas industry.

In modern land, as only one measure, Calgary and Edmonton make up 33% of all the new development in the nation.

Alberta overflows with opportun­ities, and its huge hearted, low-assessment welcome guarantees it will remain a destination of decision for speculators and business visionaries from Canada and around the globe.

Check out the available homes for sale in all of Edmonton and its neighboring areas on our new and improved Edmonton MLS listings. 

Purchasing an Edmonton home is an essential choice in your life. It’s thought to be one of the greatest speculations an individual makes. In the event that you are wanting to purchase an Edmonton house, you have to consider numerous things. rous key arrangement tips will help you to get the best house at the best cost. The following are some of them:

1. React quicker

Edmonton home buyers need to be snappy in their reaction. They can’t keep the venders holding up for a long stretch. On the off chance that you wish to purchase a house, you have to react rapidly to the counteroffer. On the off chance that you don’t, the vender may discover an alternate purchaser, which may cause an offering war. The dealer might likewise begin ignoring you and contact different purchasers. It’s imperative to react quicker or atone later on. On the off chance that offering begins, then on the reasonable value you could have had may be lost. Don’t let this happen. React quickly and act quick.

2. Get your work done

Edmonton home buyers ought to get their work done before finishing any arrangement with the seller. It’s discriminating to invest this exertion with regards to purchasing a home. There are many alternatives accessible on the web, purchasers can investigate them and get to know the home costs in their zones. A definite investigation of the salary levels, educational system, demographics and property assessment rate will help in arrangement. Subsequently, homebuyers ought to do their legitimate research before taking care of business with the merchant.

3. Don’t demonstrate your enthusiasm

As a purchaser, you may be aching to purchase a home and may likewise have a settled timetable. You ought to never demonstrate your enthusiasm to the merchant however. In the event that the home seller thinks about your avidness, he may raise the value and may not arrange further. He comprehends your need and can even exploit it. Hence, you have to verify that you don’t let the purchaser think about your issues. Regardless of the possibility that a broker is included in your exchange, verify that this broker does not to reveal the data. Here at Team Leading Edge, your emotion is safe with us!

4. Associate with your Edmonton home seller

On the off chance that you are wanting to purchase a house, its imperative for you to join with your home seller. When you associate with the merchant, speak with him and let him know all the subtle elements you like about the house, it assembles an association between you. It’s great to unite with the vender and manufacture relations with him in setting to your future home.

5. Make inquiries and clear up your questions

As a purchaser, you ought to never imagine all is well. Be clear, make inquiries and clear up questions. A productive moderator is not apprehensive in light of the fact that he or she makes inquiries. You are that arbitrator concerning your decision of home. Don’t keep yourself from illuminating a worry. That worry could result in issues later on.

6. Organize your needs

As a purchaser, you ought to organize your needs while arranging with your merchant. You have to make sense of what you need most and put it forward in like manner. Case in point, choose whether you need a lower cost or the dealer to make repairs. Organize your needs and act in like manner. In the event that you have done this, you can easily arrange with the dealer.

7. Report the arrangement

Never expect anything, as suspicions dependably make perplexity. You, as a purchaser, ought to make a point to archive the arrangement, get it in composing. In the event that the dealer lets you know that he will give the dishwasher and the clothes washer, get it in composing. Indeed the little points of interest ought to be archived. This will keep inconveniences from being made later on.

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