Channel Launch

Bruce BrownBuying And Selling, Investing, Market Updates

Channel Launch! Check out episode 1 on Bruce’s new YouTube channel. Headline: The 12 Reasons I’m Starting A YouTube Channel. Plan to cover common questions and issues in real estate for home owners and investors, open the hood on the industry machine, and give you a different perspective on many agent practices. Feel free to agree and disagree – but …

Real Estate Investing ROI vs Appreciation

Real Estate Investing: ROI vs. Appreciation

Bruce BrownInvesting

This article is the first in a series examining and illustrating the impact of various factors on the returns generated by a real estate investment. If you remember one thing, let it be that the formula is more complicated than reported in the write-ups for virtually all investment property listings. For example, the “cap rate”, or the cash flow calculated …

Shared Equity Mortgage Canada

7 Reasons To Not Like Ottawa’s Shared Equity Mortgage

Bruce BrownBuying And Selling

Is Ottawa’s proposed Shared Equity Mortgage “plan” a good idea? Okay, so I only know what I saw on CBC News the other night. They reported that the Canadian Government has yet to work out the details of the “plan”. We can’t fully assess it until we have those details… but the concept seems misguided to me in many ways: …

2018 Ottawa Neighbourhood House Prices

Ottawa Neighbourhood House Prices 2018

Bruce BrownBuying And Selling, Investing, Market Updates

This article contains the full set of charts to support my February 2018 email newsletter. If you’re interested in receiving complete monthly Ottawa real estate market analysis, why not sign up and try it out. You can always unsubscribe, and no one will hunt you down to find out why. You’ll find a subscription link at the bottom of this …

Ottawa Condo Prices Old vs New

Ottawa Condo Prices – Older vs. Newer

Bruce BrownBuying And Selling, Investing

Talking about Ottawa condo prices with one of my clients recently, I realised it’s been 6 years since I looked at the average selling price trend for older vs. newer condo apartments in Ottawa. Here’s the article from 2012: Are New or Re-Sale Condos a Better Investment? Fast forward to today; let’s take a look at the average selling price …

Bidding Wars Ottawa

Bidding Wars That Aren’t

Bruce BrownBuying And Selling

Have you read the CBC article from April 25th about Ottawa real estate’s “Perfect Storm” intensifying “Bidding Wars”? I’d like to go through this article and shed some light on a few of the pronouncements it makes. You can read the original article here: CBC Article: Bidding Wars Intensify It’s fun working in real estate because almost everybody finds it interesting …

Agent Has A Buyer For My Home

Selling – Dealing With The Agent Who Already Has a Buyer

Bruce BrownBuying And Selling

Law makers are waking up to some of the old school sales tactics that are unfortunately still common in the real estate business. CBC’s Marketplace ran their story (episode 44 – you can Google it if you haven’t seen it) about Realtors in Toronto working both sides of a transaction for the benefit of themselves (and buyer customers or clients) …