- New Moncton Casino Will Effect Property Values, but how?
- Maximum Internet Exposure & Why it's Important in Saint John!
- YES!!! Medical School Coming to Saint John, New Brunswick
- New Brunswick Municipal Elections 2008
- Lewisville Real Estate Market Report
- CANADA: Saint John is Growing!!!
- 2008 Moncton Sales Are Stable
- Dieppe Real Estate Market Report
- 2008 Shediac Real Estate Market Report
- List Sale Price Ratio
New Moncton Casino Will Effect Property Values, but how?
The Province of New Brunswick recently approved a bid that will result in the construction of what will be the only casino in the Province.
The reportedly $90,000,000 destination casino and 128 room hotel will be built on a 70 acre parcel of land located a few hundred feet outside of Moncton city limits and adjacent to the Trans Canada Highway. In addition to being our first casino, a development of this scale outside of the downtown area is unprecedented in our real estate market. In the immediate area of the casino parcel several smaller parcels of vacant land and some residences are currently for sale.
Based on your real estate experience, what effect do you expect the new development will have on property values in the immediate area of a new casino complex?
Maximum Internet Exposure & Why it's Important in Saint John!
In today's market more than 88% of buyers start their home search online. Most of them start searching online before they even speak to an agent. The Saint John real estate market moves very quickly and many buyers depend on the internet to get the upper hand on new listings. That's why it is so important to have your home marketed online with MAXIMUM web exposure.
When you market your property online you have the ability to show the value in your home with large pictures, slide shows, and detailed information. When hiring an agent, you will want to make sure they have their own website where they will display the detailed information and the large pictures. You will also want to make sure they have a way to capture information from potential buyers.
Along with marketing your home on the agent’s website, you will likely have it advertised on MLS.ca (soon to be REALTOR.ca). It is important to advertise on MLS.ca simply because the website receives a huge sum of daily visits. Unfortunately there may not be room for full details, large images, maps, videos and other value added content.
You want your home to be advertised on the agent's website in conjunction with several other websites - including local classified websites, social networking websites, and search engines.
Generally speaking I like to advertise on Facebook and using Google Adwords. Both of these websites allow me to target people living in your area. For example, if I am selling a home in Saint John I want to limit my Google ad words to people in New Brunswick, or even just Saint John, Rothesay and Sussex. These are the people most likely to purchase your home (it doesn't make sense to advertise to people in Japan if you want to target people in the greater Saint John Area. This can cost a lot of money which could be better used to market your home). With Facebook, you can also add a picture of the home for sale and choose where it will show up (in the ad box, or on people's main screen). When they click on the photo and description, they end up at my website where they can see all the features of your home, and most importantly see the value in your home.
Along with these websites I advertise in the online classifieds, and on the radio. The radio allows me to market your home to thousands all at the same time. Although they can't see you home on the radio, we use descriptive keywords for them to imagine what your home might be like. After hearing the ad, they will often visit my website to take a look at your home.
Whether you choose me to sell your home with me or another agent - make sure to ask them what they do to market your home on the internet!
Luther Harrity (Royal LePage Atlantic)
1-866-593-7446 www.sellwithme.ca
YES!!! Medical School Coming to Saint John, New Brunswick
What a wonderful, exciting encouraging and motivating proposal for the Saint John students and their parents, now realizing that a state-of-art Medical School will be housed in the Saint John area. Having a Medical School in the area, will give local students resources for finishing their education locally, without moving out to get the professional training. This will give residents future doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.
Since most employers look to see what services the community have before they move into them. What a ingenious way to entice future employers to locate their corporations in the Saint John, New Brunswick area. This is working on the infrastructure of the community for future years to come.
People will be encouraged to move back, if not, move to Saint John, knowing that their families will have health professionals to visit in a shorter time frame. This is an absolutely wonderful way to motivate the public to a revitalized Saint John in years to come, especially as the uprising energy hub!!!
New Brunswick Municipal Elections 2008
Once every four years New Brunswick citizens residing in municipalities and local service districts of various sizes exercise their right to vote by choosing local leaders. These leaders enact zoning bylaws, set rates for property taxes and enact local legislation, all of which affect property owners. Of course there are often other issues, but municipal spending is the one that impacts property owners directly.
In our general area about 65% of all households own the property in which they live. So what would one expect to be a reasonable percentage of eligible voters who took the time to vote? It varies widely, as you can see below.
Larry Estabrooks is licensed as an independent real estate agent in Moncton, New Brunswick
Lewisville Real Estate Market Report
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CANADA: Saint John is Growing!!!
Welcome to Saint John, New Brunswick, CANADA!!! Where people are very friendly and transitioning from blue collar work to high skilled labor & technically advanced market. The area around Saint John is beginning to flourish, especially the Kennebasis Valley, Milledgeville and the River Valley area of Grand Bay-Westfield. WHY? The unlimited resources of minerals and the wonderful scenic hills of continous granite lined streets and waterways. This is an untapped market, getting ready to boom. My vision of the future, is continual job and economic growth, cultural diversification, with a "green" environment. With an increasily "green" environmental future, with the harbour cleanup initiative, this will become one of the greatest harbours on the eastern seaboard. With the building of a clean, environmentally friendly new technology oil refinery and the greenhouse free electrical output of the LePreau Generating Station and potential development of "wave energy" conversion technology, Saint Johners are looking to our children's future. 
2008 Moncton Sales Are Stable
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Dieppe Real Estate Market Report
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2008 Shediac Real Estate Market Report
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List Sale Price Ratio
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