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Real Estate in the Niagara Peninsula - Homes for sale in St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, and other Niagara Region communities _uacct = "UA-145446-1"; urchinTracker(); A different approach to finding and buying real estate in St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, and the Niagara Peninsula Duncan Pollock Broker of Record Duncan Pollock Real Estate Broker, Brokerage 427 Gate Street Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada  L0S 1J0 Tel: (905) 468-3154 Cellular: (905) 704-9037 Fax: (905) 468-3812 e-mail: duncanpollock@sympatico.ca   Important:  Please note that I have changed my e-mail address with effect from November 3 2007. (If you have tried sending any message to the old address (dsp.pru@sympatico.ca) from October 29th onwards, it will NOT have reached me and, if you don't mind, needs to be resent to duncanpollock@sympatico.ca ) Welcome -- and thank you for visiting my website. Its purpose is to point out that I now act as an Exclusive Buyer Broker -- which means that I no longer list property but work solely for buyers. It also explains that I can save you time and money and offer you a personalized service that's decidedly different from what you can expect from someone else. Allow me, if you will, to run through the idea as follows. 1.    Several problems face you when you're looking at properties in today's real estate market: a)    The countless ads, websites, and lawn signs you see aren't particularly focused on what you're looking for.  Rather, you're faced with a need to go through a process of elimination that involves numerous phone calls, e-mails, and showings related to places that don't suit your needs or fit in with your budget. Thus, you can waste a great deal of time because, at most, you're exposed to scattered snapshots of what's available instead of the complete picture and, least of all, one that's zeroed in on your exact requirements. b)    You may end up paying more for a property than you need to do or, worse still, more than it is truly worth.  Asking prices are just that: asking prices -- and, by the nature of things, they aren't always as keenly set as you may hope they are. Indeed, unless you have access to what's called a Comparative Market Analysis, you're dependent on nothing more than an intelligent guess as to what you should pay for a property that appeals to you. c)    You also won't necessarily be told what's wrong with any property you look at. Instead, the emphasis will be on everything that's right, with, at best, the fault and flaws left for you to notice or raise concerns about.  In fact, if you're dealing with a listing agent or any saleperson who's working for the seller (which is the assumption you need to make unless you've arranged things differently), you are definitely at some risk. As the law puts it:  The sale of land (with some exceptions) does not imply any promises of quality or reasonable fitness for a particular purpose. 2.    Fighting words? Undoubtedly so, but they really only reflect the reasoning that underpins what's known as the Buyer Agency idea -- and, in my case, its ultimate version, the services of an Exclusive Buyer Broker. The key point of this approach is to treat you and not the seller as a client -- in other words, to look after your best interests in contrast to the traditional (and still generally common) view that sees you as a customer.  Or, as I'm fond of putting it:  the objective is to get you the most house for the money -- which is what you're entitled to -- as opposed to getting the most money for the house -- which is what the seller hopes is going to happen. 3.    A more detailed account of how and why you can benefit is provided in the following pages Getting the most for your money How the real estate industry is slanted in favour                        of its sellers rather than its buyers. What you can do to ensure a more level playing field. What a Buyer Agent does How you can get at the whole truth and nothing but the truth. How you can benefit by becoming a client instead of a customer. The Buyer Agency Agreement How you can be sure of having your best interests looked after. What you are asked to do in return. 4.    In effect, what you can expect from me comes down to the following: **   I'll do a thoroughgoing search to identify all the properties that could meet your needs -- regardless of what you've noticed while driving around, perusing the ads, or browsing the web. **   I'll make sure you know the true worth of any property that interests you, based on a Comparative Market Analysis of it. **   I'll act as your Buyer Agent -- which ensures that you'll get the care and consideration you deserve to have. **   I'll serve you in my capacity as an Exclusive Buyer Broker -- which means I'll look at the entire market on your behalf without any preference for a given agent or company's listings. and perhaps best of all ... **   I am not expecting you to pay me for all this.  Instead, when you make a purchase I'll be compensated by a share in the commission the seller pays to the listing agent. 5.    Serviced areas:   All locations in the Niagara Region, including St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Fort Erie, Pelham, Vineland, Welland, and Port Colborne. 6.    Range of services:   Purchase and lease of residential, agricultural, commercial, industrial, and investment properties. 7.   To round things out, you may find it useful to look at three other pages: Who am I? My qualifications and experience. Additional information Finding a home anywhere, arranging a mortgage, the ins and outs of home inspection, legal considerations and closing costs, regional and municipal facts and figures, commercial real estate, etc. Of this, that, and the other ... A collection of websites I've run across at various times.  Most are real estate related.  A few are not. However, they all contain information you may find interesting and helpful. Any questions?    Something not clear?    Need to know more?   Just click here to e-mail me.   You can add yourself to my mailing list if you wish. I send a newsletter out each month that deals with a variety of issues related to the process of buying property. There's nothing hard sell involved, I can assure you. Rather, the idea is to share my thoughts with you about how I believe buyers can be better served by the real estate industry. And to get a sense of the contents, you can take a look at some of my previous mailings by clicking here. e-mail * First name * Last name * * = Required Field Note:  If you have an interest in buying or leasing industrial, commercial, or investment property, you may find it useful to browse an alternative website that I was recently encouraged to create.  It explains my role in offering exclusive buyer representation for purchasers and lessees of ICI properties and deals with a number of factors that call for attention when you're involved with the non-residential real estate market. It also provides links to several databases of currently available broker and private listings of industrial, commercial, and investment properties. Together, they cover an extensive range of property types and locations throughout North America and in different countries around the world. You'll find the site at iciniagara and you can use its pages to directly e-mail me for complete details and/or to arrange a viewing of any listing that appeals to you.   Home For Sale Real Estate Listing Property For Sale Canada Real Estate Australia Real Estate Additional search engine and directory listings include Google  /  Sympatico  /  Yahoo  /  Open Directory Project Internet Directory of Real Estate Professionals   SearchSight Directory  / Allthelink Directory / Business Plexus Directory  Canada Real Estate Directory  /  Universal Real Estate Directory   City Wide Pages St. Catharines /  Proudly Canadian Business Directory Premier Directory / SeekOn/Niagara-on-the-Lake And now for something entirely different ... It helps to have a sense of humour if you're in the real estate business -- and if you're involved in developing and maintaining a website. As a complete change from all you've seen/read so far, you can, if you wish, take a look at  My In Tray. Acknowledgements, permission, and disclaimer A number of the photos used in this website are the copyright (and used with the permission) of WebGraphicsZone and iStockPhoto. The copyright to this web site as a whole is claimed and retained by me as its author, but permission is hereby granted for you to print out and/or distribute the site in its entirety or in part(s), provided that due acknowledgement of my authorship is included. The opinions expressed in this web site are primarily mine and, to a large degree, reflect conditions in the Niagara Peninsula -- at least as I see them -- rather than elsewhere.  They do not, however, necessarily conform with the views held by some of my colleagues in the real estate industry. You can search the content of all my web pages by using the following box. (The results will embrace the [by now] numerous newsletters I've sent out)   Search this site powered by FreeFind This site created with Netscape Composer (Last updated November 2007)

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