This 2009 wall calendar, published exclusively for Toronto Real Estate Board, comes with 12 special coupons for leading Toronto area attractions with over $165 in possible savings! These are some of the city's top attractions, including:

• Centreville
• Casa Loma
• CN Tower
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
• Royal Winter Fair
• Ontario Place
• Ontario Science Centre

plus many more... Jasmina's past, present, and future clients will receive this TREB 2009 coupon calendar for free! Contact Jasmina to request your copy now.

Toronto Real Estate Board 2009 Wall Calendar Features

• 13 Beautiful Photos of GTA Homes & Neighbourhoods

Property taxes are often overlooked factor for many people in Greater Toronto Area. However, when buying a home, property taxes are nearly as important an issue as the selling price of the home.

Home Buyers Beware!

Residential taxes in cities and towns across GTA & surrounding area may differ a lot. In some of the municipalities residential property tax rates are so high, that they will not only hinder you as the buyer, but also will most likely draw concerns when you attempt to sell your house.

Property Tax Rates Chart for 2008

National Home Show 2008 - Advice & Solutions for Your Decorating, Renovating, Landscaping Projects

Toronto National Home Show is back and better than ever. If you've got a home project in mind, looking to refresh your living space or want to discover the latest styles, trends and ideas for your home, the National Home Show has the inspiration you need to get started:

• Tour the Dream Home
• Celebrities on the IKEA Love your Home Stage
• Experience the Toronto Star Dream Gardens
• Gallery New: Surround Yourself with New
• Decorating & Renovation Tips & Tricks
• Meet Contractors & Builders from BILD
• Meet one-on-one with Interior Designers from ARIDO presented RENO & Decor Magazine

Advice, solutions and inspiration for all your decorating, renovating, and landscaping dilemmas from more than 700 home & garden specialists await you at the 2008 National Home Show. Buy tickets online and save $3 on admission! Enjoy this exclusive offer to Home & Garden Television by entering promotional code HGTV. You can also get 2-for-1 admission for April 10-13 with discount code torontolife.

On October 11, 2007, following the 2007 fall Ontario election campaign when Premier Dalton McGuinty was re-elected, The Government of Ontario committed to add a holiday in February to increase the number of public holidays to nine per year. Recognizing that Ontarians work very hard and deserve more time to spend with the people they love, they declared the third Monday in February Family Day.

This additional holiday gives Ontarians the same number of statutory holidays as Alberta and British Columbia. Family Day is also recognized in Alberta, Saskatchewan and several other countries across the world including South Africa and Australia.

In honour of this new holiday, many Greater Toronto Area attractions are offering special promotions including 2 for 1 admission to the CN Tower, 50% off admission at The Toronto Zoo, and more. Check out Toronto.com for more great Family Day ideas and contact me for your FREE Toronto 2008 Calendar worth over $150 in Coupons for major Toronto area attractions!

Whatever you choose to do this Family Day, I hope you enjoy your long weekend. I wish you and your family a happy and safe holiday.

It seems each month has been a record breaker for the real estate industry in York Region and across the GTA. Central Richmond Hill N04 district led the way in January with a 59 per cent overall increase in sales compared to mid-January 2007, mainly as a result of attached/row house transactions.

Across the Greater Toronto Area there were 1,776 transactions, an increase of 11 per cent increase over the same timeframe a year ago, announced Toronto Real Estate Board President Maureen O’Neill. The average time a property is currently on the market is 41 days, down 13 per cent as compared to a year ago. The average price also increased considerably compared to the first half of January 2007. It currently stands at $367,574 an eight per cent increase over the $340,793 recorded at mid-January a year ago.

Strong Activity in other areas of the Greater Toronto Market

Despite the U.S. housing recession, where home sales are to hit bottom in early 2008 and the current housing crisis is expected to run through early 2009, Canada's real estate market continued to post significant price gains in the fourth quarter of 2007 and showed little sign of the usual winter slowdown. Toronto Real Estate Board Market Watch reported 2007 was Best Year Ever, with 4,646 sales in December and year-end sales of 93,193. This is 12 per cent higher than year-end sales in 2006 and 11 per cent higher than 2005, the Toronto market's previous best-ever annual performance!

Here is a summary of recent Royal LePage Real Estate Reports and interviews our president Phil Soper did with the Canadian media to discuss the Canadian Real Estate market and the outlook for 2008.

2007 was a record-breaker for the Canadian Real Estate market. The big stories were price out west and volume in central and eastern Canada. We knew prices would continue to appreciate in the west but the pace of appreciation particularly in the first part of the year really defied all expectations; and in Ontario and Quebec we saw the number of homes trading hands really spike up in the second half of the year; very, very strong year for real estate. Toronto area displayed high levels of home buying activity in the fourth quarter, despite the city’s rising house prices, partly related to the introduction of a new Toronto Land Transfer Tax.

2008 Market Survey Forecast

In marketing your home, you are competing against dozens of other owners who are all after the same pool of buyers. To compete successfully, you want to gain every possible advantage. If you list your home with Jasmina, you will instantly be entitled to VIP Home Seller Program for FREE. This Program will help you obtain the best possible price in the shortest amount of time!

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VIP Home Seller is a comprehensive program that sits on top of my traditional Real Estate advertising and marketing services and includes the following VIP benefits:

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At the Toronto Fall Home Show you’ll get advice from celebrities and experts, get great deals on hundreds of products and services, and information to do-it yourself or help finding someone to do it for you. Save $2.00 off each adult admission when you buy tickets on-line and receive a free HomeStars.ca book - 336 pages filled with: Over 2,000 consumer ratings of stores and services in the GTA; Events, articles, tips on renovation planning and more; Listing 10,207 companies in over 85 categories.

See the latest in home and garden products and services including:

Single-detached average price in excess of $500,000

in close to half Toronto Real Estate Board's MLS districts! Unprecedented demand for single-detached homes along the Yonge Street corridor prompted double-digit price increases in the GTA's top performing neighbourhoods in the first six months of 2007, finds new Re/Max report. "To date, 51 per cent of districts reported double-digit sales gains for detached homes and 44 per cent for condominiums. It's been another banner year for real estate, and it's far from over" says Michael Polzler.

Detached Houses

Demand is particularly evident in the central core - from Bloor St. north to Highway 7 - where average price ranges from $565,000 to well over a million. In fact, nearly 60 per cent of 'C' districts reported double-digit increases in unit sales for the first half of the year." Last year at this time, appreciation had slowed in the central core as the average price approached $830,000. Buyers were investigating more affordable alternatives east, north, and west of the city centre. This year, despite an average closer to $875,000, demand for properties is at an all-time high in the district and a limited supply of product has purchasers vying for homeownership. In June, four central districts (C02, C10, C11 and C15) reported a sales-to-listings ratio above 100 per cent. Multiple offers remain commonplace on quality, well-priced product, with detached homes selling for 100 per cent of list price or more in all but one central district in June.

Top five Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Districts by Average Price Appreciation are:

IE7 gives you the ability to add custom search providers to your browser built-in Internet search box, much like Firefox. Since 77% of our Web Site visitors still use Internet Explorer and we want to be where our users are, JasminaHomes.ca Team has also created Internet Explorer 7 compatible search engine plug-ins for surrounding York Region and Toronto Public Libraries.

Our Internet Explorer 7 plug-ins are based on Amazon.com's A9 OpenSearch specification, so they will also work with Firefox 2.x browsers.

Usage Tips

To add a community library search provider to your IE7, simply click on any of the links below:

JasminaHomes.ca Team offers a suggestion how York Region and other Greater Toronto Area Public Libraries can extend the reach into their communities, offer services that make them more visible and be where their users are:

Our Library Search Engine Plug-ins

Adding search providers to Firefox is simple. Just click on any of the links below:

• Richmond Hill Public Library search
• Vaughan Public Library search
• Thornhill & Markham Public Library search
• Mississauga Public Library search
• Toronto Public Library search

Through years of experience helping people buy and sell their homes, Peggy Selinger-Eaton, author of Stage Your Home for Profit, developed seven major staging principles. These principles make one house sell immediately while the same home down the road stays on the market for months. Following these principles means your home is professionally packaged and presented, while creating maximum appeal and interest:

1. Make a great first impression
2. Maximize space and eliminate clutter
3. Use light for an open, spacious feeling
4. De-emphasize flaws

Royal LePage Real Estate Services has just released our preliminary Q2 2007 report which highlights house price trends for the three most common types of housing in Canada in 80 communities across the country!

The most profound story in Canadian real estate today is the extraordinary interest that people across our country continue to have in buying and selling homes. The sheer number of homes trading hands this year has far exceeded consensus expectation. This market continues to show strength as we move into the second half of the year.

said Phil Soper, our President and CEO.

Toronto's Resale Housing Market

Experienced a strong second quarter, characterized by record-breaking activity and rising average house prices. Toronto's better than expected second quarter was defined by intense demand that was only barely met by inventory levels. Multiple offer situations occurred frequently on detached homes, resulting in decreased average listing periods from this time last year.

Toronto Real Estate Forecast

Your home is one of the single biggest investments you are ever likely to make, so you will want to do all you can to care for it. A home, like an automobile, will require attention from day one. Preventative maintenance is far more cost-effective than the crisis management approach of waiting until something breaks or wears down and having to scramble to have it repaired. Preventative maintenance can avoid repairs, extend the life expectancy of many components and reduce energy consumption. A well-maintained home typically sells more readily and brings a higher price.

Call 905-731-2000 to receive a Complimentary copy of "Manual for a Happy Home" - book published by the National Association of Certified Building Inspectors (NACHI), when you begin searching for your Dream Home in the GTA with me!

Why Manual for a Happy Home?

Do you want multiple offers as soon as Your Home goes on the market?

If your answers are yes, call Jasmina at 905-731-2000 to arrange your Home Evaluation and receive a 50 minute "Stage Your Home for Profit" DVD – both absolutely FREE! DVD contains Step-by-Step instructions to easily and profitably prepare your home for sale.

What is Home Staging?

Home staging is the process of preparing a home for sale. Through merchandising your goods, staging shows potential home buyers that your home is the best product available. Real estate experts know that a staged home sells faster and for considerably more money than one that is not staged.

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