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Your Professional REALTOR® - Uses the most powerful tool for buying and selling
a home which is the Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) co-operative marketing system that they created with over 98,000 REALTOR®
members across Canada, all working together as the The Canadian Realestate Association (CREA)
- Can put your property on the public website that they have created called www.realtor.ca
(used to be mls.ca ), to give maximum world wide exposure. This is one of the premier real estate websites in the world (eg.
3.69 million unique website visitors who looked at 241 million web pages on the website FOR JUST THE ONE MONTH
OF JULY 2008)
- represents you
through every step of the buying or selling process protecting your best interests and negotiating on your behalf once you
have signed a representation agreement
- knows the local
market and understands the vital importance of timing and circumstances, and has the experiance and tools to market your property
effectively
- has access to the full Multiple Listing
Service data base with comparable prices, selling price to list price ratios, days on the market, history of price changes
for a property as well as up to date and historical market statistics. and if you are working with a REALTOR® can let
you know of new listings before they are uploaded to the public website
- is skilled in the process of buying and selling real estate and has access to a wealth of knowledge and experience
of other REALTOR® colleagues and mentors
- is
highly trained and has passed Ontario's rigorous provincial educational requirements for licensing and continues to develop
and enhance skills with mandatory on-going education courses
- is
licensed by the Real Estate Council of Ontario and is a member of the Ontario Real Estate Association, and the Canadian Real
Estate Associaton
- is bound by an extensive Code
of Ethics that are enforced, and by common law to provide the highest level of service with integrity and dedication
- provides you with referrals to a network of quality trades and services ,
making you real estate experience easier and more enjoyable up to and after your closing day
- is covered by Errors and Omissions insurance to ensure your peace of mind in all real estate transactions
So make sure that the person or company that you are dealing with is a REALTOR®
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