For years now, virtual tours have helped real estate buyers find the perfect home. Because of the pandemic, virtual home showing options recently experienced a huge spike in popularity. One survey found that nearly 33% of recent home tour requests were for virtual tours, as compared to only 2% pre-pandemic. Buyers want to quickly find their next home, one that may need to serve as their office, gy...Read More

Buying or selling real estate during COVID-19 raises a number of questions. Below, are frequently asked questions from buyers and sellers navigating the real estate market during these unprecedented times. Are Electronic signatures or e-signatures just as binding as signing in person with pen and paper?? Yes. Electronic signatures or e-signatures have been permitted in real estate transactions ...Read More

This year the Local Home Finder team has faced each challenge head-on and grown exponentially throughout each milestone of the company. If you can believe it, our team has almost quadrupled in size this year! Our family has grown to include three new Registered Agents, two Admin staff, and a professional Home Stager. Our LHF family works around the clock to make sure everything to do with your bu...Read More

It’s time to make the old feel new again We keep hearing about how difficult it is to snag a home in this lightning-fast market. The prices are high, the mass migration out of the city is in full swing, and many recent buyers are desperately over-bidding just to keep a roof over their heads. This can get overwhelming! The real-estate fatigue is real! What our team hasn’t heard many d...Read More

Another holiday to spend in lockdown! How do we make it special this time? So many families in Dufferin County and beyond will be sending their children back to school this week and we are all crossing our fingers that this lockdown will be the last. We know every day is starting to feel like family day, but here are some ways we brainstormed to make this Family Day holiday special while sticking...Read More

If you bought a home in 2020 this article will ring true to you. Purchasing a home at any time is an emotional experience, let alone in the middle of a pandemic. Our team learned many new and creative ways to connect our clients with the homes of their dreams in 2020 and will be carrying that expertise with them into the new year. Here are some of the tips that will assist any buyer looking to pur...Read More

And what this means for market value If you’ve been browsing Realtor.ca lately you will have started to notice a trend. Spend an hour browsing through homes in your price range, put ten in your favourites, and by the next day - poof - all of the houses on your list are gone. This is in part due to the frivolous purchasing of today’s buyers. People are so desperately searching for &ld...Read More

"Honesty is always the best policy" Selling your home has never been as simultaneously easy and discouraging as it has been over the last few months. Realtors are finding and selling new properties at record speeds, property values are skyrocketing and we have all seen the rise in housing prices across the province. At the same time, we have seen an increasing number of interested buye...Read More

  “That price is way too high for a property in this area!” Sound Familiar?   We hear a lot of talk these days about the “fair” price of a home and we want to address these concerns with some of our own insights while working in the current local market.  Without fail when the topic of purchasing a home comes up in conversation you are bound to hear about ...Read More

    Although the “Red Zone” isn’t really the Christmas red we’d been hoping for, there is still time to make your home a bit more festive than usual for the holidays. Many of us spend our Christmas season rushing from gathering to gathering and leave our own homes a bit neglected during the big day. Give your home some extra holiday cheer this year, and create a...Read More