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ByTheOwner.com’s visitors went “through the roof” in April. We received more than 1,170,000 visits in April. This is a 36% increase from 2008.

This shows that more and more people are looking to buy and sell privately. ByTheOwner.com is currently the largest and most visited For Sale By Owner website in Canada and the 4th most visited real estate website in Canada!

The number of visitors to our website is one of the main reasons that our customers are selling! Our sold homes increased AGAIN in April as agent’s sold homes decrease!

The math is simple. If you want to sell your home privately and save thousands in commission, simply put your home where buyers will see it! On ByTheOwner.com!

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There is a recent article in the Toronto Star which discusses whether this is the best time “to buy or not to buy”

http://www.thestar.com/Recession/article/624821

In March and April, ByTheOwner.com has seen a large increase in activity for our SOLD homes and for offers being presented to our customers. So far in April, we are on pace to once again pass last year’s results in terms SOLD homes and COMMISSIONS SAVED: How many real estate agents can say that?

In terms of the housing market, it almost seems that the economic crisis has quickly disappeared. Mortgage rates are at all time lows, which is making home ownership very affordable. These low rates are combined with lower house prices, which must be the main reason that the housing market has bounced by so quickly.

Happy Selling and Happy Saving!

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Across most of Canada, we are expecting terrific weather this weekend. Great news for all our Open Houses!

April is Open House month on ByTheOwner.com and there have already been more than 1,200 open houses scheduled! Amazing!

Here are some links to recent ByTheOwner.com SOLD homes that mention open houses in their testimonials:

bytheowner.com/121393
bytheowner.com/114759
bytheowner.com/116202
bytheowner.com/114245
bytheowner.com/107966
bytheowner.com/114191

… plenty more in our testimonials section, please click here.

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Here is an article that reports that the Bank of Canada Rate is now at 0.25%.

Read here.

This low rate is leading to great rates for home buyers:

http://www.ratesupermarket.ca/

The market is heating back up again as ByTheOwner.com’s sold homes are on pace to grow again this month. We are already at 444 sold homes so far in April.

The ByTheOwner.com Open Houses are bringing in all the buyers!

Happy Spring!
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It looks like the real estate market has picked up steam and is getting on with business!

ByTheOwner.com had a 25% increase in our SOLD homes in March and we set a NEW MONTHLY RECORD with 770 homes sold in one month! Congratulations to all our customers! The average ByTheOwner.com customer saves $15,000 when they sell. This means we saved our customers more than $11 Million Dollars in March!

The different real estate boards also came out with more positive numbers (although not as good as ByTheOwner.com’s numbers):

The Toronto Real Estate board report that sales were down 7% and selling prices were down less than 5%.

The Ottawa Real Estate board reported that sales were up 7% in March compared to last year!

It’s great to see all this positive news! ByTheOwner.com is aiming to set a new record in April because it’s Open House Month!

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ByTheOwner.com has launched the first iPhone application in Canada designed for those who want to buy a home directly from the owner!

The GPS installed in the iPhone establishes the position of the phone, allowing you to instantly see a geographic map showing homes for sale in the area in which you are located. How cool is that?

Another great achievement by the ByTheOwner.com programmers!

To take a sample tour of the new iPhone application, please visit ByTheOwner.com/iPhone

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On ByTheOwner.com, there are more than 360 Open Houses scheduled for this weekend. Since it is the Spring market, buyers will be out in full force for the 1st weekend in April.

ByTheOwner.com is the only site to have an Open House scheduling system so that buyers can easily choose their desired homes and then get the fastest road directions to make it as convenient as possible to look at ByTheOwner.com properties.

Buyers can go to our Open House section:

ByTheOwner.com/openhouse

Then the buyer can zoom-in and click on all the properties that they wish to visit and choose “Add to my Itinerary”

After the desired homes are added to the buyer’s itinerary, they can then “Click Here To View Your Itinerary”. The buyer will receive:

+ Driving instructions all the properties chosen
+ Open House Times
+ A google map of your route
+ Distance and Time between homes

It’s That’s Easy!

Don’t you agree that the ByTheOwner.com programmers are amazing?

Have a great Open House weekend!

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