Stonebridge Housing Market Today – MLS® Listings and Sales

As of this evening, 25 residential units are for sale in Stonebridge (2 are conditionally sold).  17 are detached homes and 8 are row units.  The price range is $268, 000 to $729,900 with the average price $525,952. 

In the past 90 days, 22 houses sold in Stonebridge at an average sold price of $493,990 (ranging from $250,000 to $710,000) and an average Days on the Market of 23.  The time it took to sell varied from 1 to 87 days. .     

Stonebridge homes are primarily built by Monarch and Cardel.  This data does not include home sold privately.

War Games

In a hot market, houses sell quickly.  Buyers will line up to place an offer on a house.  As the evening progresses, the listing agent may come back and ask if you, the Buyer, want to improve your offer.  Others are being asked the same question.  Now it feels like a contest and someone will succeed.  This is called a bidding war.  If you are a first time buyer with a budget, try to stay away from bidding wars as you are likely to get emotionally caught up in ‘winning’.  You may lose sight of what the true value of the home is to you and also the limits that you have set on what you want to pay. 

If you have a Yoda for a real estate agent, you will have with you someone who has wisdom and mastery of the art of buying in a bidding war.  Listen carefully to your agent.  Take time to discuss the market and the price of houses before and during a bidding war and how your personal circumstances will be reflected in the offer(s). Being on the housing warpath may mean losing your direction. 

“Do or not do.  There is no try.”  and  ”Ohhh. Great warrior.  Wars not make one great.” 

 Photo credit:  Star Wars – The Exhibition

Fixtures and furnishings

You may want to strip everything from your house that is not nailed down. If you are asking premium price, Buyers will know it.  Getting your price while keeping all of the appliances, light fixtures, drapes, tracks and garden shed is not a successful strategy. 

Make your sale by leaving things – On The House.

Upper Hunt Club Housing Market Today – MLS® Listings

As of this morning, 4 residential units are for sale in Upper Hunt Club (MLS® area 2608). Prices range from $559,000 to $599,900.  These are detached 2 storey homes with 3 to 4 bedrooms and built sind 1995.  

For the first time since doing these statistics, nothing has sold in the past 90 days.  This is a very small MLS® area where there will be few houses available at any one time.

These statistics do not include condos, multiple family dwellings and private sales.

Even Chef Ramsay Has Needs

 

Whether you are an acclaimed chef or a single person specializing in peanut butter sandwiches, the kitchen in your home must meet some basic requirements for Buyers to be interested.  

Buyers evaluate kitchens using three essential criteria

You can have a counter full of fancy gadgets but most Buyers know that these do not stay with the house.  They want to know if the place is clean, can they store their dishes, food and small appliances and finally, is there enough preparation space available to mince, chop and stir. 

You know what this means if you are selling.

Without the basics, the screaming chefs will be leaving your kitchen alone.  

 Photo credit: dinner preparations (DILO)

Alike as two peas in a pod

Only if both you and your selling competition have decided to leave storage pods in the yards.

Consider renting a pod to fill with your clutter and stuff before putting your house on the market.  This is a good idea.

Now here is the caveat:  Please do not leave that pod on your driveway when the For Sale sign is posted.  It is an eye sore.  Potential Buyers and your neighbours will be put off.  Agents and Buyers will not be able to park in your yard.  It sucks up the space and the view.  Have the company remove the pod while you wait for the Sold sign to go up.

You will have the advantage if you remove the pod and are no longer alike as the other “pea”.

Photo credit:  Tagged POD

Two peas in a pod

Have you rented a pod to fill up with your clutter & stuff while your house is on the market?  Please do not leave that pod on your driveway when the For Sale sign is posted.  It is an eye sore.  Potential Buyers and your neighbours will be put off.  Have the pod removed to storage while you wait for the Sold sign.

Store until your sale is in the bag.

Old Ottawa South Housing Market Today – MLS® Listings

As of this morning, 16 residential units are for sale in Old Ottawa South (MLS® areas 4403 and 4404). The prices range from $399,000 to $1,050,000. The average list price is $637,793. There is 1 semi detached unit, 3 row and 12 detached homes (includes one duplex side by side) for sale.

In the past 90 days, 16 homes sold at an average sold price of $648,041 with an average DOM of 42 days ranging from 0 to 138 days.

One apartment condo is currently for sale at a price of $329,900.

These statistics do not include private sales.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

 

 

This is a poem that Canadian children learn and recite to commemorate November 11, Remembrance Day.  For most of us, the poem and its meaning are never forgotten.

Photo credit:  J.J. Zinger

Blue Boy and Pinky

Nothing says “Grandma lives here” more than the needlepoint pictures of the Blue Boy and Pinky.  You may have inherited these pictures.  They are dear to your heart.  To a Buyer they just say – old, tired and dusty.  Any old pictures, needlepoint or paint by number, that were completed 40 – 75 years ago need to stored before your house is on the market.  

Let Blue Boy have his day in hallways at the “home”.

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