Canmore Alberta Real Estate Agents, Richard Greaves & Darcy Chilton with REMAX Alpine Realty

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I thought I’d write a quick post regarding Title Insurance and how it may help you as a Buyer or a Seller when purchasing a home in Canmore.  I’ve had two clients recently, one that bought a home and another who sold a home where title insurance potentially saved them both a lot of money and future aggrevation.

What is Title Insurance?

Title Insurance is an insurance that you can purchase, typically through your lawyer, that protects your ownership or title against losses incurred as a result of undetected or unknown title defects for as long as you own your home.  Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a new year and with it I’m sure renewed hope from Sellers that the Canmore real estate market will at last start to work it’s way towards a more balanced market.  Over the past three and half years Buyer’s have had the upper hand in the market and will do for several more months, but maybe 2012 will be the year we start to see Canmore recover.  I’m all done predicting what I think will happen in the Canmore Real Estate market and although I have my opinions I think I’ll reserve judgement on sharing those opinions until I’ve seen a couple more of months of sales data.

To recap the Canmore real estate market for 2011 – we saw our second worst year on record for sales volume with only 283 properties selling in the year. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s becoming a tradition in our family that sometime after Christmas we grab our skis and snowshoes and head into the back-country for a couple of days to relax, unwind and enjoy a winter camping experience with a few other local families in one of the Alpine Club of Canada’s back country huts.  Last year we chose a fairly easy trip and stayed at Wheeler Hut for a couple of nights last March.  This year we decided to kick it up a notch and see how the kids would handle a 12km ski up over a mountain pass and into a hut.  On January 9th my two boys and myself stuffed a back pack each full of clothes, food and sleeping bags and headed from Canmore to the Lower Kananaskis Lakes to start our trip into Elk Lake cabins with four other Canmore families.  My wife decided that she’d let the boys and myself go by ourselves this year (I think she just wanted to spend some time by herself after a busy Christmas at home with the three of us). Read the rest of this entry »

Wishing all our Canmore friends, clients and partners a very Happy New Year and a Healthy, Prosperous 2012

November in the Canmore Real Estate Market started off slowly but gathered a little pace towards the end of the month finishing the month with a respectable (for 2011 at least) 20 sales in town.  The momentum of a busy September and October more likely the reason than there suddenly being another large influx of Buyer’s coming into town to purchase before Christmas.  Apartments and Single Family homes being the popular choice of real estate to purchase in Canmore this month as buyer’s of town homes came to a grinding halt. Read the rest of this entry »