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Ottawa Real Estate Market Update: May 2015

June 3, 2015 | Comments Off

Stats stats stats! It’s being called a “Buyer’s Market” but overall the Ottawa’s Real Estate resale market was strong and steady in May 2015. Below are some of the highlights from the Ottawa Real Estate Board. This type of Real Estate Market overview is interesting but please speak to one of our REALTORS or Contact us for the statistics in your specific neighbourhood! We’d love to hear from you and we’re here to help. Posted by the Ottawa Real Estate Board June 3rd, 2015 Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 1,926
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Wow! Ottawa ranked #1 amongst large cities and #2 overall in MoneySense's Canada's Best Places to Live 2015 rankings!

June 2, 2015 | Comments Off

Canada’s Best Places to Live 2015: Measuring quality of life in 209 cities Wow! Ottawa ranked #1 amongst large cities and #2 overall in MoneySense’s Canada’s Best Places to Live 2015 rankings! Read Full Article Here We’ve always loved Ottawa but with a resurgence in amazing restaurants, arts and culture, farmers markets and start up companies like Shopify making headlines, in recent years our national reputation has gone from drab to fab! Finally the rest of Canada is seeing what we do: Ottawa is a truly awesome place to live! “Ottawa benefits from being fairly stable while other cities have
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Royal LePage Gale Real Estate and Royal LePage Team Realty team up for record-breaking fundraiser

May 26, 2015 | Comments Off

Every year on a Tuesday in May, Royal LePage Team Realty and Royal LePage Gale Real Estate get together for a charity auction. It all started in Almonte in 2001, when Butch Oldford bought a tie at a company breakfast meeting for $250. Butch asked that the money go to charity. Realizing that cancer has touched many of our lives we decided to celebrate Denim Tuesday together and we have raised over $400,000 for local cancer charities. All of the auction items are donated by our Sales Representatives, Management team and Staff. We also have some great sponsors – Mortgage Brokers
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Royal LePage in the News! Royal LePage named 2015 Outstanding Corporate Citizen

April 14, 2015 | Comments Off

Canadian Franchise Association bestows honour on Royal LePage—A first for the real estate industry! April 14, 2015 A first for the real estate industry TORONTO, APRIL 14 – Royal LePage Real Estate Services has been named the 2015 Outstanding Corporate Citizen by the Canadian Franchise Association (CFA). Royal LePage, Canada’s largest and oldest real estate firm, received this award for demonstrating sustained support for the local communities through its network of over 600 brokerage offices from coast to coast, and for philanthropic innovation on a national scale. The company’s 16,000 Realtor® network has raised over $20 million through the Royal LePage Shelter
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Nelson House Donation

March 24, 2015 | Comments Off

With the help of many generous supporters, every year Mary Lindsay, a Royal LePage Team Realty sales representative, organizes a “Yesterday’s” sale at our Royal LePage Team Realty branch at 1335 Carling Avenue. This group collects gently used clothing, jewelry and silent auction items which are then sold over 2 days. All money raised is then donated to a local women’s shelter. Earlier today Mary Lindsay, Theresa Seguin and Brian Sukkau presented a $2000 donation to Ottawa’s Nelson House. Nelson house exists to “provide safety for women and children who are being abused and to work with other groups and
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Campaign Launched By Provincial Realtors to Stop the Spread of Another Costly Home Owner’s Tax

April 30, 2014 | Comments Off

Help us in an effort to “Say no to another home owner tax” – It is our mission to help prevent the spread of a new municipal land transfer tax (MLTT). This tax is in addition to the Land Transfer Tax a consumer already pays to the province when purchasing real estate and this provincial tax is already a large amount. Now your local municipalities want to Tax the home buying consumer again by introducing a new local Municipal Land Transfer Tax. Currently only implemented in Toronto, this tax has a great possibility of spreading to other regions of Ontario.
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Royal LePage’s New Mobile App Breaks Industry Barriers With Draw-and-Search Feature

March 10, 2014 | Comments Off

Royal LePage, in partnership with award-winning mobile agency Plastic Mobile, recently announced the launch of the Royal LePage mobile app for Canadian house hunters. Available for iPhone, the new app is simplifying the property search process down to the swipe of a finger. The app’s innovative Draw-and-Search feature allows users to easily zero in on a specific geographic area of interest on a map, by simply drawing the area of choice with their finger. Upon doing so, property listings within the selected region will pop up on the screen. On-the-go house hunters no longer need to log in or fill in forms
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Welcome!

May 2, 2012 | Comments Off

Welcome to Our Real Estate Blog! At Royal LePage Team we’ve always been about providing great customer service and results for our buyers and sellers but…while we were busy helping people with Ottawa area real estate we forgot that there are a bunch of people out there who might be looking for resources to help them sort through the whole buying and selling process. Of course would love to help you directly but…maybe you don’t live in the Ottawa area, maybe you’re already working with someone or maybe you’re just interested in real estate but not ready to talk to someome yet. Whatever your reason, thanks for
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