Friday, October 31, 2008

Mississauga Mortage Interest Rates

The table below shows you the current posted and achievable mortgage interest rates in Mississauga and the GTA.

TERMPOSTED Achievable
RATES*
6 Month 6.20%6.20%
1 Year6.35%4.35%
2 Year6.70%5.35%
3 Year7.05%5.49%
4 Year7.04%5.69%
5 Year7.20%5.59%
7 Year7.65%6.20%
10 Year8.00%6.40%
Variable Rate4.75%
Prime Rate4.00%














Rates Last Updated: Thursday, October 30, 2008

If you would like to get in contact with a mortgage person that I know who can get you these mortgage rates, please let me know.

Thank you,
Mark

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Mississauga real estate, Should you be buying a property at this time?





Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Average Prices and Graph Hello,



This is my first video post. I just made it this afternoon on our boat. A student from Sheridan College asked me to answer a couple of questions about first time buyers and whether they should be buying a property.



I am sure I will look back at this video and laugh, but what the heck, you should enjoy this very much!



All the best,

Mark



For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Mortgage market has changed dramatically

Hello,

The mortgage market has changed dramatically, due to the financial turmoil.

Hopefully we can get through it in near future.

Please see the following up-to-date rates.

5-year closed fixed rate: 5%-4.95%, depends on mortgage amount. With big amount, it might be even lower.

Variable rate 5 year closed: Prime rate (4%).

For those of you who would like to wait for variable rate to drop, you may wish to take short-term fixed rate first.

Limited time Promotions that I have seen

: 6-month fixed rate: 4.35% or 1-year fixed rate: 4.29%

All the best,

Mark

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Rental Fraud Alert - be Careful!

Please be very careful if you are thinking of renting a property through Craigslist or Kijiji. There are some fraudsters out there preying on people who are thinking of renting. If it seems just too good to be true, it likely is.

One method of checking if the property you are thinking of renting is too inexpensive is to email an agent and ask them to either look up the address on the MLS or to give their opinion of rental value. This is one method of checking.

Please read this press release from the Toronto Real Estate Board below.

All the best,
Mark
Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Average Prices and Graph


October 27, 2008 -- A Member, who recently placed a house rental advertisement on Kijiji and Craigslist, has reported that an individual re-issued the same advertisement with his contact information in an attempt to fraudulently collect rental deposits.

The individual advised prospective tenants that he had been transferred to Nigeria on business and as such, the house would be available for rent for four years. He offered to rent the house for a considerably lesser amount than that which the owner had advertised. At least two prospective tenants in the Brampton area were nearly drawn into this scam.

Members are reminded that such occurrences can also be reported to PhoneBusters, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Call Centre managed on a tripartite basis by the Ontario Provincial Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Competition Bureau Canada.
PhoneBusters can be reached at 1-888-495-8501 or info@phonebusters.com


For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com

Monday, October 27, 2008

blogger labels

I've figured out that my blogger labels continue to give errors in my google webmaster tools under sitemaps and broken links. the reason is that labels with spaces are not indexed properly, I knew this from a long time ago, but overlooked this with blogger, hense all y problems. the only rational solution is to rename all my labels and put dashes or underscores, I chose dashes, since they are easier to insert!

such as

moving-relocation,national-prices,power-of-sale,property-tax-sales,property-taxes,real-estate-humour,real-estate-market,real-estate-strategies

these all have dashes and seem to work better!



Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Average Prices and Graph

For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com

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this is a test of the new labels for my bloggerToronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Average Prices and Graph

For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com

Existing Home Sales Scotia Report

Existing Home Sales

— The jump in September existing home sales — up 5.5% m/m — was a surprise. Excluding condos, the increase was even greater, coming in at 6.2%

m/m, the largest since early 2002. The glut of unsold, single-family homes decreased by 6.0%, lowering months supply to 9.4. Adding multi-unit dwellings, the month’s supply rises to 9.9, still high by historical standards.

Home values and prices continue to trend lower; both the median and average price of single family homes fell by over $10,000 last month.

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Thank you for reading my blog and if there is anything else I can help you with please don't hesitate to contact me,

Mark

A. Mark Argentino
P. Eng. Broker
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate


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Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Average Prices and Graph

For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com

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Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Average Prices and Graph

For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com

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For more information please contact A. Mark Argentino

A. Mark Argentino, Broker, P.Eng.,
Specializing in Residential & Investment Real Estate
RE/MAX Realty Specialists Inc., Brokerage
2691 Credit Valley Road, Suite 101, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 7A1

BUS. 905-828-3434
FAX. 905-828-2829
E-MAIL: mark@mississauga4sale.com
Website: Mississauga4Sale.com