Menno van Driel

The Royal lePage brand stands for innovative marketing techniques and we (the individual agents) can take advantage of the most advanced features.

Interesting Royal le Page TV movie

Just released are a bunch of videos that can be beneficial to clients on a host of different topics:

About the power of the Royal lePage for-sale sign: http://video.royallepage.ca/mediadetail/3283523-Royal-LePag ...

For around $500,000, you can pretty much have your pick of fantastic homes in the best of locations in or near various Sunshine Coast communities. Take a first stroll around some listing examples right here:

Luxury in Gibsons

Example 1:

MLS# V784696

Gibsons (Oceanmount) beautiful grounds and a very elegant well-kept home so close to all the amenities, incl the rec centre. With 2 natural gas ...

 It must be humorous for people who are not familiar with “our” jargon to hear us talk about “active listings“. What do we mean with “active”; are there inactive listings? Isn’t a listing “active” by its very definition – because when it’s not active any more, it’s no longer a listing, right?

A LISTING, according to the dictionary, is merely the making of a list, as in cataloguing or tabling ...

Some real estate listings show two brokerages as the “listing brokerages” – this phenomenon is usually referred to as a co-listing. There are many advantages to having your property co-listed. First, let’s look at some situations in which a co-listing could occur:

- You have interviewed a few sales people from several brokerages and you can’t make up your mind who to choose: you would like to ...

These days, everybody knows that mortgage interest rates are at record lows, right now. From here on, so the question goes, what should we expect future interest rates to be? If only we knew.

In principle, we should all agree that the rates must go up, just because they can’t go any lower. Nobody knows how much they’ll go up or even when. Those economists that dare make such predictions tend ...

You want a mortgage to go with the home you just purchased. The bigger the mortgage you can get, the better, right? The more money you can get, the nicer a house you can buy; this logic appears to be simple.

How much money you can borrow is, generally, a fairly simple calculation. If you are completely honest with yourself and your own financial situation, then the mortgage calculators here w ...

It’s a dream of many to own acreage. A few Acres of land to roam and do almost whatever you want. You can do a bit of farming, keep certain animals, do lots of gardening, build trails through the woods and plan “for later”. After all, many acreages on the Sunshine Coast are sub-dividable, meaning that you might be permitted to cut off one, two or more lots and sell or use those separately. Ot ...

The Sunshine Coast Community Foundation produced their Vital Signs report in which it states (among other things) that we have a problem with affordable housing on the Sunshine Coast. More specifically, there isn’t enough of it.

In my opinion, this is true – and not. The report states that the average household income required for the purchase of a median-priced home on the Sunshine Coast is ...

If you’ve ever heard the whine of a teenager in their “nothing to do” mode, then you probably also know the stunned feeling this sound gives you. Just because there are piles of dishes to be done, tons of laundry to be washed, miles of garden to be weeded and several bikes to be repaired, it doesn’t mean that everybody is going to be happy to be doing what needs to be done. Many people rather ...

Finally, our nation’s top bankers are admitting it in public: they have no clue what’s happening in the future of our economy. I’ve always wondered how it is that “they” can shamelessly predict future financial developments (like economic growth and interest rates) and just turn around and be wrong, yet pronounce another prediction that’s sometimes right and sometimes wrong.

Would you like t ...