In the news and in the life of a Peterborough Real Estate Agent Edition 1

In the news

Youth walk in clinic to open in the Spring

Article written by Joelle Kovach Peterborough Examiner

• A new walk in clinic for children looking for mental heath help is planned to be opened in the spring
• After a 10 year serge in young people seeking help in the PRHC emergency room
• People are asking for help more often 
• Anyone 18 years old or younger will be able to walk in and see a professional counselor
• It is still unclear where the new clinic will be located

Sailor in iconic V-Day kiss passes away

95 year old George Mendonsa died on Sunday. George was the sailor captured in the celebration kiss that become famous known as "The Kiss".  This is a statue of the iconic photo found in Sarasota Florida.

The Life and Business of a Peterborough Real Estate Agent

I am proud of what I do for a living and the service that I provide to my clients. Last year I had a family approach me as they were looking to downsize their home. We had an initial meeting and during that meeting we came up with a plan to accomplish what their goals were. We started off with finding the replacement home that would work for them. This process did take a few months to accomplish but we were able to do so. We looked at around 15 homes that came up for sale. My clients took a couple of attempts on a few homes but did not win competitions. Finally "the" home came for sale. My clients placed an offer on it and it was accepted. We did have a condition of selling their home. We immediately put their home up for sale. It did not take long for someone to attempt to bump us off our purchase. My clients and I took the time to weigh out the risks of removing the sale of property condition and go solid on their purchase. We did remove the condition. We were able to sell the Buyers home and everything closed just fine. The lessons on this sale was we took risks but we had a plan for all the variables. It was still stressful but we were able to execute the plan in place. Always have a good plan in place an your real estate transaction will go smoothly.

Being a Dad

Lucas and I had fun this Family Day weekend on a ATV track that I built for him at the cottage. The snow was deep so I carved out a track with the snowblower. Lucas traveled that track many times but Dad had a few goes on it as well!

Your local Realtor®

If you are looking to either Buy or Sell in Selwyn or Peterborough contact me immediately at 705-927-6236

Brad Sinclair, Sales Representative

Royal LePage Frank Real Estate Brokerage

Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007

www.bradsinclair.ca

www.royallepagerealestate.com

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Real Estate quick snap numbers-January 2019

January quick snap numbers: City of Peterborough

• Total Active Listings at the end of January:  68
• Average Days on the Market:  30
• Days of Inventory:  35
• Sale Price Increase 2019 vs 2018: Plus 8%
• January Unit sales 2019 vs 2018: (2019) 58 units sold  (2018) 47 units sold
• YTD Unit sales 2019 vs 2018:  (2019) 58 units sold  (2018) 47 units sold
• Average Sale Price 2019 vs 2018: (2019) $408,934  (2018) $378,960
• Average List to Sale Ratio: 99.1%

Source-Peterborough and the Kawartha's Association on Realtors

January quick snap numbers: County of Peterborough

• Total Active Listings at the end of January: 159
• Average Days on the Market: 56
• Days of Inventory: 177
• Sale Price Increase 2019 vs 2018: -6.3%
• January Unit sales 2019 vs 2018:  (2019) 29 units sold  (2018) 33 units sold
• YTD Unit sales 2019 vs 2018: (2019) 29 units sold  (2018) 33 units sold
• Average Sale Price 2019 vs 2018:  (2019) $466,497  (2018) $497,894
• Average List to Sale Ratio: 94.2%

Source-Peterborough and the Kawartha's Association on Realtors

Your local Realtor®

If you are looking to either Buy or Sell in Selwyn or Peterborough contact me immediately at 705-927-6236

Brad Sinclair, Sales Representative

Royal LePage Frank Real Estate Brokerage

Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007

www.bradsinclair.ca

www.royallepagerealestate.com

www.gowaterfront.ca

In the news… A look at what is being reported in Peterborough and Area. Edition 3

Controversial Market likely to get one more year of craziness

Article written by Joelle Kovach, Peterborough Examiner

• Year extension likely to current agreement
• City will be launching a public consultation to find out what kind of farmers market people want. Questions like does in matter if the product is locally grown or not.
• An open bidding process will happen to invite any prospective operators for the following 5 years
• Cindy Hope remains president of the current Farmers market

NorthCrest Temporarily Closed

• A water main break at the arena Sunday closed the arena
• Emergency repairs are continuing but it is unknown when the facility will reopen

Crowley's next match expected on foreign soil

Article written by Mike Davies, Peterborough Examiner

• Next two or three bouts will be on the road.
• Crowley does not expect to fight in Peterborough until the end of 2019 or early 2020 with PMC not being available because of floor repairs
• Currently Crowley is ranked 14th in the IBF intercontinental rankings
• Crowley wants to bring boxing alive in Canada. His goal is having ShoBox and Showtime in Peterborough for his next hometown fight
• Crowley's manager says Cody is on his way up. He is not there yet. Once everything clicks it will be a Beautiful Thing

February 12/2019 Walk and Talk

Written By Brad Sinclair

Looks like Selwyn council will have a very interesting meeting tonight.  There is Three parts of the meeting that I am going to watch closely.

First is Guy Hanchet. Guy is coming before Council to ask about the progress on the implementation of the Selwyn climate change action plan. Since I have not seen any information on the proposed plan it intrigues me to know that Selwyn has developed a plan. This plan has not been rolled out to the public as far as I know. Stay tuned

The second interesting deputation is from Jo Hayward Haines. Jo is sending out a rally cry for trees as she calls it. Her recommendation to council is to develop a Tree Conservation Bylaw using Peterborough bylaw 70-120 as an example. According to Jo’s note to council her neighbor removed 12 trees from his property which she felt was devastating. Jo wants to see legislation to protect trees from irresponsible removal from developers and property owners. Her presentation as she says is not just a request for legislation, but it’s also an opportunity for all of us to learn what our shared responsibilities are as we face together the consequences of our often unconscious treatment in the past of the earth we live on.

The third interesting topic is a department review brought forward by Mayor Andy Mitchell. The department he would like to review with objectives and desired outcomes is the planning and building department. This review would be done by a steering committee. The desired outcome is to establish a culture of superior customer service, increase housing inventory and increased economic activity and job creation to name a few objectives.

We will chat later and discuss the outcomes of these and other discussions.

Your local Realtor®

 

If you are looking to either Buy or Sell in Selwyn or Peterborough contact me immediately at 705-927-6236

 

Brad Sinclair, Sales Representative

Royal LePage Frank Real Estate Brokerage

Solving Problems and Making Things Happen in Real Estate since 2007

 

 

 

 

www.bradsinclair.ca

www.royallepagerealestate.com

www.gowaterfront.ca