Be a professional Stager! Staging Your Home Yourself

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Own It! Staging Your Home Yourself Staging is one of the best ways to add value to your home for very little money. So what should you focus on first? Decluttering, everywhere. You want potential buyers to see the house not your knick knacks. Buyers should be able to picture themselves living there and your personal photos, mementos and clutter can be distracting. Scrub and clean everything. Every square inch should sparkle. Don’t forget to tidy inside your kitchen cabinets and drawers and in your closets too. Perception is that if everything is tidy and clean, the house has been cared for. Rearranging furniture can have a huge impact. The key is to highlight the maximum space available while evoking a light and airy feel to each room. If you have bulky oversized furniture, consider putting those in storage and getting smaller pieces when showing your home. Lighting is just […]

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Yaletown Real Estate Listings Offer Excellent Options to Vancouverites

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Canadian Real Estate Market

Convenience has become a major factor in enticing young professionals to set up residence in Vancouver. Citing a recent report from PriceWaterhouse Coopers and the Urban Land Institute, an article in the Huffington Post says today’s younger generation of professionals are realizing the benefits of living near places where they work, compared to having a home away from the city. Given this, they are more open to living in condominiums, which are easier to manage than traditional houses:

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Condos for Sale in Vancouver: Living in the Core Has Become the Norm

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Downtown Living

For decades, the ideal home for most Canadians was one in the suburbs, preferably in a subdivision or a private community. Now, more and more families are opting to live in downtown houses and condos, to the point that urban life is now seen as the ‘new normal’. At least, that’s the view expressed in the annual real estate outlook report by international consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and non-profit Urban Land Institute. As CBC News reports:

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