Clayton Hill Real Estate Blog

Blog by Mark Donovan & Devon Rogers

Signs of Optimism

April 29th, 2009

Fraser Valley Real Estate Board

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: April 2, 2009

SIGNS OF OPTIMISM IN FRASER VALLEY REAL ESTATE MARKET

(Surrey, BC) - Fraser Valley REALTORS® credit fi rst-time homebuyers, low interest rates and greater overall confidence in the housing market for an increase in sales on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in March.

The Fraser Valley Real Estat ...

There are still No Money Down mortgages!

April 28th, 2009

There are still No Money Down mortgages!

Many brokers just don't have access to these programs, but I do!~That's why they call me the Mortgage DIVA.

Free Down Payment Mortgage is a program that will allow you to purchase that home without your own down payment. Clients who are currently paying large sums in rent and are having difficulty saving the down payment as a result, should consider ...

East Clayton School Park Site

April 27th, 2009

East Clayton School Park Site

This park is to be built in conjunction with a new elementary school at 190th Street and 70th Avenue.

It is approximately 3.5 hectares in size and is the largest of the parks proposed for the newly d ...

Cloverdale History

April 24th, 2009

Everyone Is Coming To Cloverdale

In 1995 the community at the crossroads was in an economic slump and members of the Cloverdale Board of Trade went searching for solutions. Their answer was to establish the Cloverdale Business Improvement Association. If the majority of businesses within a specified area support a BIA, provincial legislation allows the local government to collect a lev ...

Curb Appeal Will Help You Sell Your Home

April 22nd, 2009
  

Curb Appeal Will Help You Sell Your Home

You can spend a lot of money fixing up your home. Re-doing your bathroom or kitchen definitely helps your home to be more appealing once people are inside. Remember that many people will do a "drive-by" viewing of your home and make a snap decision as to whether they want to arrange an inside viewing.

Here are some ideas:

  • Mow The Lawn! ...

Three schools – Anniedale Traditional, East Clayton and Sunnyside – closing?

April 22nd, 2009

Three schools - Anniedale Traditional, East Clayton and Sunnyside - closing?

Three Surrey schools are facing possible closure - two due to growing traffic and safety concerns in their respective areas and a third because of concentrated population growth.

For parents and students at Anniedale Traditional School, getting to school has become almost impossible in the past year ...

Things to Avoid While Making Your Mortgage Application

April 21st, 2009

THINGS TO AVOID WHILE MAKING YOUR MORTGAGE APPLICATION

With the current low interest rates and other factors, many people are buying homes and applying for new mortgages, or refinancing their current mortgages.

With up to 2 months or more from the time of application to the time of closing, it is not uncommon for things in your life to change. But be careful because some changes can ruin ...

Big upgrade for bike lanes

April 21st, 2009

Big upgrade for bike lanes in Cloverdale including Clayton Hill

A total of 10.6 kilometers of new bike pathways will be built, including $1.8 million for additions to the Cloverdale Bicycle Path along 176 Street south of Fraser Highway, as well as added segments to the Wildflower, Serpentine, Green Timbers, Fraser Hights and Clayton bike paths.

Know your mortgage payout penalty?

April 6th, 2009

This is critical information that all people selling their homes need to know.

If you sell your home, how much is your penalty to pay off your mortgage early, typically with the proceeds from the sale of your home?

Many mortgages, unless they are open mortgages, have a penalty; often 3-months-interest.

And they also have what's called a MORTGAGE DIFFERENTIAL, and the bank will make you pay ...

Thoughts from Warren Buffet

April 3rd, 2009

Warren Buffett is very famous for a reason. Warren has made himself shockingly rich as an investor. In the spring of 2008, Warren was ranked as the world's richest person, with a net worth of some US$62 billion. Warren could probably bail out a big U.S. bank for months. (In fact, that's exactly as much money as U.S. insurer AIG lost in the fourth quarter of 2008 - the largest quarterly loss ...