Updated: The Apple Store at Conestoga Mall opens August 13, 2011 Have you heard the latest news behind this construction site at Conestoga Mall? We have heard rumblings for months that the next Apple retail store would be in Waterloo Region, and we are now able to confirm that Apple is bringing a retail store [...]
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Look Smart By Investing Where The Jobs Are
How do you buy Real Estate? Location, location, location. Buy Property Near The Jobs! Are you looking to invest in an area where the employment capacity is increasing? Take a look at residential investment properties near Weber Street North between Northfield and Benjamin Road. This short stretch of road in North Waterloo adjacent to an [...]
Carnival of Real Estate #180
Welcome to the 180th Carnival of Real Estate! I’m Benjamin Bach, and I’m glad you stopped by my blog to read a collection of great articles on real estate. Today we have articles about Quantitative Easing, flipping homes, the credit market, home improvement & more. Remember to click through to read the contributors blog. Enjoy! [...]
Donate to Movember & win Unmarketing by Scott Stratten
[Update: Auction has ended with a $400 top bid ] special update: Now including 1 hour one-on-one with Real Estate Super Star Coach Chris from TechSavvyAgent.com We Have A Big Problem Every year, more than 4,000 men in Canada will die from Prostate Cancer. This is very uncool, so Sarah & I are raising money [...]
Sunday Night Economic Funnies
For your viewing pleasure, a cartoon about the US Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing 2 (QE2)
Allied REIT buys 50% stake in Kitchener’s Breithaupt Block
Kitchener Waterloo Commercial Real Estate News Allied REIT Acquires 50% Share of Perimeter Development’s Breithaupt Block in Kitchener’s Warehouse District Exciting news for Kitchener’s Warehouse District, and Perimeter Development’s Breithaupt Block in particular. Allied REIT has bought a 50% share of the redevelopment opportunity. From The Record: Major developer takes stake in Breithaupt Block project [...]
CREA ratifies Competition Bureau Consent Agreement re: MLS® Access
Agreement formalizes fact that consumers have many choices when it comes to selling real estate Big news this morning coming out of St John’s Newfoundland, as Georges Pahud, President of the Canadian Real Estate Association, spoke about CREAs approval of the Competition Bureau’s case re: access to the MLS®. “We are pleased that after careful [...]
A Short Steel Rail Sessions video now online
For all those that took part in Steel Rail Sessions last Friday, the KW Record has a short video up. You have to click this link to watch the site on The Record’s site (it seems I can’t embed it yet). Steel Rail Sessions Kudos to everyone who organized it, especially Hilary from RQ Magazine [...]
My First 9,999 Tweets – Who I’ve met & What I’ve learnt on this crazy little thing called Twitter
I joined Twitter January 22, 2008. I had heard about it from a few leading edge tech types – the next cool thing – and I figured I should get on and see what the fuss was about. Like many, I wasn’t quite sure – even after I signed up and took a look around. [...]
$1 Billion dollars: Kitchener Waterloo’s Mid Year Market Update
Benjamin Bach with Keller Williams discusses what’s going on with the real estate market in the Kitchener Waterloo MLS area. The area surpassed $1 billion in transaction volume in the first 6 months. Prices of homes are up. Watch the video, and visit http://BenjaminBach.com for more
