The early bird draw is happening on Dec 22, 2012 at the Central in Elmira. The prize for the early bird draw is 52 $25 gift certificates for anywhere of your choosing. The main draw is taking place on March 10, 2012 and the grand prize for that draw will be 52 $50 gift certificates for anywhere of your choosing. There will also be many other smaller gift certificate prizes to be won. Net proceeds for the draw will go to the Womwns Crisis Services of Waterloo Region, various sports teams, educational and community projects in the Waterloo Region. There will be 5000 tickets sold. Tickets are only $20. The very best part about this draw is that I will drop off the tickets to you. I know the holidays are upon us so I want to make this as simple as possible for anyone who might like to buy a ticket. Thank you very much for supporting these great causes!!! Have a terrific day!
http://www.waterlooluxurycondos.com - Here is a useful video for anyone who would like to know how the luxury condo market is doing in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
The time frame I am using in the video is Nov 2009-Nov 2010 vs Nov 2010-Nov 2011.
This information can be helpful for anyone thinking of selling their condo or buyer who are looking to understand how well the Kitchener Waterloo condo market is performing.
Luxury condos sold within the past year vs the same period in the previous year over $300,000
91 Total Units sold between Nov 2009 - Nov 2010
17 Sold in Waterloo East
51 Sold in Waterloo West - 11 were Bauer Lofts, 16 at 255 Keats Way
11 Sold in Kitchener East
12 Sold in Kitchener West
The sale price for condos ranged in between $295,000 up to $695,000 Median Sale price was 347,500 Average days on market were 54 days
114 Total Units sold between Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
31 Sold in Waterloo East
60 Sold in Waterloo West - 20 of which were Bauer Lofts!!! 10 were at 255 Keats Way. 50% sold from just two complexes
13 sold in Kitchener East
10 Sold in Kitchener West
Condos ranged in sale price between $295,000 up to $950,000 Median Sale price was 348,750 Average days on market were 53 days So in summary there was a 20% increase of unit sales for condos over $300,000 year over year for 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. There was also an increase in the maximum sale price year over year. The median sale price saw a slight increase.
The above information is believed to be correct errors and ommissions accepted
By Warren McNeil
Here is a video I did about a client who didn't initially want to buy a condo because they didn't want to pay condo fees. After they realized that the condo was the better buy they opted to purchase the condo. In this experience there were no single family homes in their price range that even came close to what they could buy in a townhouse. The condition of the townhouse was considerably better. The biggest challenge that I face sometimes is explaining that a condo might be the better option.
As of this blog posting, there are between 10-20 condos in Kitchener Waterloo with condo fees under 200.
Mel and I belong to a service club in Woolwich township in Waterloo region. The club is the Kin Club of Woolwich. Checkout http://www.woolwichkin.com
Our club is hosting a draw with all of the proceeds going to the Womens Crisis Services (Anselma House) .
Tickets are $20 and the draw is going to take place on March 5th. If anybody would like tickets, let me know. There are 3 grand prizes of 52x $50 gift certificates to the place of your choosing. You can redeem the grand prize anywhere in Canada so even if you are not in the Waterloo region you can still win. Examples of gift cards could be gas, restaurants, LCBO or whatever you can think of.
Checkout this Youtube video I did about the draw:
Hello all,
Been a little while since I posted here on Activerain. I have been pre-occupied and haven't really felt like sitting down to write a blog. Rather then force out something meaningless I decided not to write anything at all.
Today we had Family day in Ontario. I love a good holiday and this one was really relaxing for us. The past week has been quite busy and this was the first day in a long time where we could actually unwind. The picture to the right is my happy place. I get a feeling of solitude when I look at pictures like this.
I think it is important to be able to get a break every once and awhile. In addition to vacation time, it is good to take a day every now and then to recharge your batteries. Otherwise you won't be at a hundred percent. If we want to give our clients 100% then we have to be at 100%.
I used to work for a guy long time ago who never went on a vacation and I used to wonder why. He never gave me a straight answer but I think it was because he had nobody around him that would look after his business while he was gone. So he always had to work and be the main guy. I don't want to be like that. I want to have a life too. Life is too short to have to work every waking minute of the day. We need rest.
Anyways I hope everyone had a great family day! Back to work tomorrow.
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