Top 6 tips to transform your space for staging or for living

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Are you looking for a quick and efficient way to brighten up your space and make it look its best without spending too much?  You can use these tips for staging your house for sale or for your own enjoyment. These are some tips from decorators which will make each room stand out (and make your friends jealous of your talents?) Each room has to have a ‘focal point’ or a main … [Read more...]

Under Renovation: Building on Ave Des Pins and St Laurent

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Finally, the burned down building over at St Laurent and Ave de Pins it's beings getting restored. It's been a few years since the building was shut-down due to a fire and without any signs of future renovations. It remained abandoned for the longest time. Doors closed, windows boarded up. You would think that being located at such a great corner [ St Laurence and Des Pins], someone will … [Read more...]

Les rénovations les plus payantes

Comme vous pouvez constater, il est possible d'accomplir beaucoup avec des petits moyens! Une professionnelle de home staging saura vous conseiller dans les priorités et les démarches à faire pour bien préparer votre maison à la vente. Cette étape est cruciale avant de compléter le tout avec un home staging pour un effet irrésistible! Tout le monde souhaite maximiser la vente de sa … [Read more...]

Interesting article: The Reality of Home Renovations

A few weeks ago I came across this interesting article about renovations and building permits. In Montreal we have Notaries instead of Real Estate Lawyers, and it is always useful to have this extra information when buying a property to renovate, or for home owners who want to do major repairs to their homes. Will you need a building permit before starting renovations? For further information … [Read more...]

Renovations that generates the best return on investment

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Everyone would like to maximize the sale of their house, but do you know where you should be starting? It’s imperative to prepare well in order to succeed and that requires a bit of time, a bit of money and some effort. In this article, I would like to cover the PRE home staging steps, namely the renovation work – which projects are more important, when and what will be your return on … [Read more...]

Tax Credit and Home Renovation

If you are renovating your home this year, you will find this information quite useful. The Federal and Provincial government have recently implemented two Home Renovation Tax Credits. I found out about it though CIGM TV,  where Pierre Langlois, Manager of Government Affairs at the Québec Federation of Real Estate Boards, explains the details of this new program in a video. What I could … [Read more...]

A New face for the Old Montreal Building: Now displaying

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Remember the building in Old Montreal getting a new face lift? Just a few days after the original post, I caught the "aesthetics working crew" doing their update of the new-and improved false front of the run-down building. A fantastic artwork was done to resemble (what we all imagine to be) the original building. Although here you can only see it half-way done, the final artwork is a well … [Read more...]

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