March 2014 Selwyn (Smith Ennismore Lakefield) Real Estate Statistic Report

Hello,

Sorry this is so late coming out. I usually like having it out day one or two of the month. I sold my parents home and guess who got nominated to get them moved. Now that task is complete here is the March report.

(Peterborough and the Kawartha's, March 2013 compared to March 2014)

• Total # of new listings -8%
• Total # of listings YTD -10%
• Total # of sales in Feb -10%
• Total # of sales YTD -8%

I thought the numbers looked bad in February, well they are worse in March. I still am pointing a finger at mother nature. In February I was hoping for warm weather in March, it never happened. Here it is April 10th and it is just starting to break double digits temperature wise.  As soon as we get some warmth, the market will be ludicrous. These comments are for Rural Peterborough, not City of Peterborough. The city market is strong as ever.

Market specific numbers

 

Area                                         March  2014 Listings    March  2014 Sales      March 2013 Listings   March 2013 Sales

Ennismore/Emily                     34                                         11                              43                            17

Smith                                       31                                          15                              37                           18

Peterborough                  159                                        88                             147                         73

 

 

 

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Going Paperless (as Paperless as I can)

Any one in my office can tell you that I am an iPad and iPhone junkie. They will also tell you that I am a little different because I still run a PC for a computer. I find that they all integrate nicely so I am not moving to an iMac quite yet.

I have made a change to my business that I am looking forward to seeing how effective it is. Paperless. As you see in the title I state, "as much as I can". What I mean by that, I can't do contracts electronically yet, but we are close. Contracts will still need paper. (econtracts not legal in Ontario yet, the only Province in Canada)

I have set up and downloaded all the apps I think I am going to need to use for this process of being paperless. Evernote is going to be the backbone of the system. Any hard notes or files will be found in this app. This gives me access to all most every piece of information, contracts, etc that I will need on a daily basis at my finger tips.

Next I will use Dropbox to share files and PDF expert to be able to add to the PDFs. (PDF Expert can do a lot of things, but is difficult to navigate).

The last App I downloaded to go paperless is Notesplus. This will give me the ability to time manage, take notes, and record notes. Handy App.

Everyone of these Apps are integrated. This will take time to figure out the best use of each App but I think once I have got it figured out, this system will help me take my customer service to the next level.

I will keep you up to date as I go along!