"Adrienne and her team were patient and accomodating with us as we tried to buy and sell a house and take care of our two young children. We would highly recommend working with the Farquhars."
Bryan and Manna
"Tasi, Norm and their team helped us throughout the entire process. They were available anytime we had questions or needed help. We became not just agent and client, or even neighbours, but also I am delighted to consider the Farquhars good friends! Read our story...
Barry and Family
"Buying our first home with help from Sarah was a great experience! She listened to our wants and needs and showed a great amount of patience during the 30 homes viewed! We are happy with the home that we chose - thank you!"
We are pleased to announce that we have joined Keller Williams Realty! This represents the first step in a new endeavour. For many years, we have built our family business -- “The Farquhar Advantage” -- but standing still in a changing market is not the best way to meet your needs. Following a process of due diligence, we have mutually agreed to establish a Real Estate Brokerage in the west-end under the auspices of Keller Williams Realty, the fastest growing real estate company in North America; one that shares both our values and vision.
As far as our clients go, it will be business as usual. We expect the opening of the west-end location will take approximately 6 months and over the interim period we will be associated with the downtown Keller Williams office. We will continue to operate out of both our home office in the west-end and our temporary home at Keller Williams Advantage Realty. You can keep up to date by visiting our web site or by contacting us through the Contact Us page, by phone at 416-236-1392 or by email.
Outlook for 2012
Despite recent economic uncertainty prospects for Canada’s economic fundamentals remain positive. Interest rates are expected to remain at historically low levels, perhaps decreasing even further in early 2012.
The general theme for 2012 will be a more Balanced market ( equal number of buyers and sellers). Resale prices will experience only moderate gains on average basically keeping up with inflation.
Interesting to note that Condominium sales in 2011 were fastest growing in North America and will continue in 2012. Rental demand will continue to be strong. Also interesting to note is that over the past five years average annual appreciation of condo’s has been 7% VS TSX only 5%!
Total Sales for 2011 in GTA will divide out as follows: 30%-Single family, 70%-Condo, Town Home, Semi, Row. This division of sales will follow through for 2012.
Basically, our fundamentals are good, we will have low interest rates, the market will be balanced, prices will rise more moderately and we will continue to see demand for good properties of all types throughout GTA.
Adrienne
Buyers, Supersize Your RRSP Contribution
Filing our 2011 income tax return is something most of us are glad to put off well into the New Year (spring anyone?). You may have contributed to an RSP over the year by instalments or conversely, making a RSP contribution maybe the last thing on your mind. If you are in your twenties or thirties (plus) and are considering homeownership, you may not correlate RSPs with owning a home...
SELLING YOUR HOME ON YOUR OWN - OR USING A REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON
DOWNSIZING YOUR RESIDENCE
If you have decided that now is the time to sell your home, you might be thinking: should I hire a Real Estate Sales Representative or do it alone. Have you ever considered repairing your own car? Anyone can buy the tools and parts. However, most of us just do not have the knowledge, training, experience or the expertise and commitment of time to do the job properly. Besides, there are plenty of experienced professionals to do the work for us.
A great many moves in our lives are to larger residences to accommodate growing families. Or, perhaps our financial development allows us to move up to a larger home with more features and amenities. There is no stress involved in trying to reduce our life’s stuff to fit into a smaller place. If anything, we just need to shop for some more furniture for the new larger place.
Filing our 2011 income tax return is something most of us are glad to put off well into the New Year (spring anyone?). You may have contributed to an RSP over the year by instalments or conversely, making a RSP contribution maybe the last thing on your mind. If you are in your twenties or thirties (plus) and are considering homeownership, you may not correlate RSPs with owning a home...
