The Vince Files » MLS http://www.thevincefiles.net My rants, ramblings, and reflections Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Listing activity for our home http://www.thevincefiles.net/2008/05/29/listing-activity-for-our-home http://www.thevincefiles.net/2008/05/29/listing-activity-for-our-home#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 05:41:24 +0000 Vince http://www.thevincefiles.net/?p=54 a

]]> Previously, I mentioned that our home is on the market. It just went up on MLS.CA today so it’s now visible to the public. Our realtor actually listed our home on Monday so other realtors have actually been made aware of our listing prior to its being made public on the MLS website.

Here are some interesting numbers from the mlxchange system with respect to our home:

Prospector Activity
Prospector Matches: 116 Last Match: May 28 2008 4:10AM
Number of times this listing has matched a Prospector Search
Emails Sent: 281 Last Sent: May 28 2008 11:55PM
Number of emails sent that included this listing
Emails Read: 71 Last Read: May 28 2008 11:18PM
Total number of times an email that included this listing was read

So far, there seems to be some initial interest in our home. Our realtor even had requests from other realtors for a viewing. However, our realtor had already sent out postcards in the neighbourhood advertising our upcoming Open House so she declined on our behalf. We’re also advertised on Craig’s List, Van Net community papers, and her office’s kiosk in Metrotown. I think this was a good move. It builds up interest and should drive traffic to our Open House. There’s really no need to waste our energy to show the place before our Open House.

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]]> http://www.thevincefiles.net/2008/05/29/listing-activity-for-our-home/feed 0 Our home is on the market http://www.thevincefiles.net/2008/05/28/our-home-is-on-the-market http://www.thevincefiles.net/2008/05/28/our-home-is-on-the-market#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 19:46:27 +0000 Vince http://www.thevincefiles.net/?p=53 a

]]> We’ve been looking to move to a bigger home recently and finally we’ve taken the first step: listing our current property. Our property has many things going for it: close to amenities, close to public transit, has an attached garage instead of a parkade, has a relatively low monthly strata fee. I’m confident our place should sell fairly quickly.

Anna found us a realtor who is a friend of a friend. I’ll reveal her name when all transactions are complete. So far, this realtor has been nothing short of great. She’s communicating with us constantly via email especially if she finds a property that we may be interested in. She’s taken the time to arrange viewings of potential properties (some nice, some not so nice, some far, some really far) even into the evenings.

After having done a comparative market analysis, our realtor set a list price on our home that actually took us by surprise; it was higher than we were expecting. But after looking at recent listings and sales in our area for comparable units, it seems our place is priced just right to attract the right amount of attention.

Our realtor has uploaded our listing and pictures to all realtor computer systems (MLS, mlxchange, RealtyLink, etc). Our open house is scheduled for this Sunday.

In parallel to this first step of listing our place, I’m also in contact with a mortgage broker to pre-approve us for a mortgage for our new place. Our new place will most likely be more expensive than the place we have now so it’s in our best interest to know just how much the bank will approve us for so we can stick to houses we can actually afford. Once we receive notice from the broker, it’s off to some serious house hunting we go. Once our place sells, we can make offers without a “subject to sale of purchaser’s property”.

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