Good Year Everyone!

So here we are in 2012. We have left 2011 behind and the New Year has come!

Do you have in mind one thing that you would like this year to bring?

 

Sometimes is enough just to think: ‘It would be nice to work for this company…’ And

somehow in a mysterious way one day you realize you are already working there and

remember yourself dreaming about it.

 

But most often you need to plan and work towards your dreams.

 

I find that what people are missing these days is socializing with friends and family.

There is never time for it. But I found a solution - just plan it, put in your schedule, don’t

change or remove, it is important!

 

Let's say each Saturday night 2 or 3 families meet to chat, play cards or watch movies

together. Children socialize and play (and are taken away from their computers or play

stations) and the adults just relax and have great time. And when time passes - these will

be the events you will remember.

 

And how not to mention that our homes are for us to live

there and to entertain with our families and friends, not only to work for them to pay off

the mortgages!

 

How was the market in 2011? Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported  total sales for

2011 amounted to 89,347 – up four per cent in comparison to 2010.

 

“Low borrowing costs kept Buyers confident in their ability to comfortably cover their

mortgage payments along with other major housing costs,” said TREB President Richard

Silver.

“If Buyers had not been constrained by a shortage of listings over the past 12

months, we would have been flirting with a new sales record in the Greater Toronto

Area,” added Silver.

 

For all of 2011, the average selling price was $465,412, an increase of eight per cent in

comparison to the average of $431,276 in 2010.

 

Very tight market conditions meant substantial competition between Buyers and strong

upward pressure on selling prices,” said Jason Mercer, TREB’s Senior Manager of

Market Analysis.

 

Unusual Style Homes

 

  

 

This unique house is located in Switzerland . It is an earth house , an architectural style

characterized by the use  of natural terrain  to help form the  walls of a house. An earth 

set partially in the ground  and covered with thin growth, and is often intended  to have a

small ecological footprint.