Some huge news out of Edmonton this week as the Province and finalized plans to licence home inspectors. This is significant move to bring home inspectors into the fabric of the Real Estate industry. Soon the days of "uncle Bob" doing the inspection to save a few bucks will be gone.



May 12, 2011
Home inspection regulation protects Alberta homebuyers

Edmonton... The Alberta government will ...

Completely not real estate related... just a cool anniversary today..


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Don R. Campbell from the Real Estate Investment Network has unique insight into the market because he looks from a foundation perspective and has no emotional attachment to home sales in any given Canadian City or Town.. Here's a superb look into the future of the Alberta Market. In a nutshell, Buyers, what are you waiting for!!!!!!!!

http://www.donrcampbell.com/this-past-weekend-changed-my- ...

THANKS to everyone who supported this years Pumpkin Giveaway event in support of the Cochrane Activettes Food Bank. We love putting it on and are already working on some great things for next year. 

2010 PUMPKIN DAY GALLERY 

I re-connected with Greg Williamson, the founder of Canada Mortgage Direct and 180 Degree Coaching. Check him out at GregWilliamson.ca. Timing is everything! Greg's latest blog sends a powerful message, thought you would enjoy.

 

Are you Fine? from Greg Williamson on Vimeo.

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Lot's of work started at the top of the Cochrane Hill on the 1A Highway. Looks like the twinning project has started??

Here are some random views of Cochrane in September...

COCHRANE SEPTEMBER PICS 

One of my fellow REALTORS® John Thompson does a terrific Cochrane Map every year. Here is a link to the on line version.

COCHRANE MAP

 

We are very proud to announce that our mobile site is up and running and superb! Full details to come in a video blog... here's a sneak peek. 

 

 Thanks to deBruyn Design for their terrific innovation and hard work! 

 Go to www.MorrisReynar.com on your mobile device. iPhone users tap the + sign to drop the site on your home screen.
 

The launch of Steve Jagger and Shane Gibson's book on Social Media, Sociable! is out. I have previewed, and loved, the first chapter and have just ordered the full copy. I encourage you to preview the first chapter here. I'm sure you will be compelled to read further as I did. Steve Jagger of Ubertor.com , Reachd.com and outsourcingthingsdone.com fame has had a profound impact on my business ...

Nice to see a positive news story about the Calgary Real Estate market today on CFCN.

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/clip234378#clip234378




 

Very interesting ruling in BC regarding a Home Inspection. This will no doubt change things for consumers, Realtors and Home Inspectors.

November 11, 2009

Home inspector must pay $192,000

By CBC News

The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered a home inspector to pay nearly $200,000 in compensation to a North Vancouver couple for a faulty home inspection he performed.

The B.C. Supreme Court has ordere ...

Here are the latest articles from the Local and National Papers on the ruling from the Federal Competition Bureau against the Canadian Real Estate Association.

New Article on the 4th. Again the focus is on Realtor Commission which is again off the mark. If discount brokerages could survive, there would be lots of them. There is nothing preventing a discounter from working in the current syst ...

Here is a really neat article from the New York Times on what you can buy in some U.S markets for $250,000... Not in Manhattan of course!!

CLICK HERE FOR THE NY TIMES STORY   PDF VERSION What You Can Buy 

 

 

Record MLS sale in Calgary and it just happens to be the home for former Flames great Mike Vernon..

RECORD MLS SALE

 

Here is an interesting look at the difference in Property Tax between Calgary - Cochrane and other bedrooms communities. Thanks to Jay Hilland at Kingsmith Homes http://www.kingsmithhomes.ca/ in Cochrane for putting this together.

Download the Property Tax Comparison

I will video about this soon, but in the mean time... After botching a deal to add video to its website, the Town of Cochrane has now decided to spend nearly $60,000 on a redevelopment of the site. Is that number correct? $59,950! for a new website, even with staff that is unreal. Only Government could justify that!! Read Rachel Maclean's article on the issue.

 Town’s website dissed
By Rachel ...

I have blogged about this in the past - finding the bottom is impossible really. Greg Williamson agrees and has posted this terrific blog about market timing. Check it out.

Greg Williamson Market Timing Blog

Wow, these are truly unprecedented times.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Bank+Canada+cuts+rate+cent/1518329/story.html

Great story in the Herald today about Consumer Confidence. Good news article...

Full story in PDF  - Link to Story on Herald Web Site

Please make sure you read Greg Williamsons Blog. Great info and perspective on the market.

http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/blog/

I'm in Regina Saskatchewan and checking in on the local Real Estate Market. Things are still hot and the slow down in the economy has had little effect here so far.

Comments info@RobReynar.com

Here are the links to my other posts on the Website Ad issue.

http://www.robreynar.com/ViewBlog/333/

http://www.robreynar.com/ViewBlog/334/

http://www.robreynar.com/ViewBlog/336/

 

I had Blogged a while back about the shifty deal signed by the Town of Cochrane and a CGI Communications to put promotional videos on the web site, the local media has picked up on the issue and posted an article today.

Visit the Cochrane Ealge to read the story.

Some more terrific analysis of the current market as always from http://www.gregwilliamson.ca/blog/

It's a great read. Take Specific note of the Affordablity Graph that Greg has linked to.