Madelyn Townes Real Estate

02/17/2025

A short insightful read for agents and consumers🏚️

Serving snacks to nosy neighbours isn’t a marketing strategy.

02/10/2025

100% Club! 🏆✨

Real estate is not for the faint of heart, but here we are - closing deals, making moves, and keeping it 100.

A huge thank you to my incredible clients who trust me with one of the biggest decisions of their lives. Your support, referrals, and belief in me mean everything. This 2024 award is our win, and I’m just getting started.

Here’s to bigger goals, bigger deals, and making waves in this industry. 🚀

05/06/2020

While there is still reluctance in buying and selling, there are promising signs of a healthy returning market.

I have seen countless posts about how the market will fail, house prices will see a new low, and "the bubble" will burst with COVID 19 impacting sales across the country.

The truth? The Canadian real estate market, from coast to coast, is much too large to fail. Details here:

Could the “wealth-conjuring machine” that is Canadian real estate grind to a halt after the COVID-19 crises exposed its worst weaknesses?

07/24/2019

An older article but a reminder to stay reasonable in competitive markets 🏘👩🏻‍💼💵

In a case a judge called a warning to prospective buyers in the GTA’s erratic housing market, a couple caught up in a bidding war will have to pay $470,000 after reneging on a multimillion-dollar deal...

06/04/2019

The best time to buy is always yesterday. Trends show the value of investing now for the future.

The average price for residential properties increased by 0.9 per cent to $593,702 in May 2019 from the same period a year ago.

05/22/2019

This Hamilton building will be the first ever retrofit in North America that will meet passive standards - a building entirely focused on energy efficiency.

The city, with the help of 10 million dollars from the federal government, has announced 146 new affordable housing units inside the old Ken Soble tower by the Hamilton Yacht Club. It will be the first ever retrofit in North America meeting what's called passive standards with the goal to reduce ene...

05/15/2019

There is no longer a need to protect corporate privacy. Our current land registry system allows individuals to use numbered companies to stay anonymous. With reform, housing could become more affordable.

Far from being a victimless crime, money laundering has actively contributed to the housing crisis, locking out a generation of Canadians from home ownership as property prices skyrocket.

05/06/2019

The average price of a detached home in Toronto remains stable at $1,355,764 👩🏻‍💼

The Toronto Real Estate Board reported that the increase in prices were driven by condos and high-density housing.

04/05/2019

Stay up to date on the market. Don’t know about affordability? Send a message and we can start today 🔎🏡

The Royal LePage House Price Survey says the aggregate price of a home in Hamilton jumped by 6.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2019, compared to 2,7 for Canada.

04/02/2019

There are ways to navigate this market whether you're a first-time homebuyer or a long-time homeowner who needs to sell + buy.

There's been a 2% increase in the number of listings over the past year giving buyers more of a choice.

The Hamilton market is strong.
Call/text me to discuss anytime: 905-921-7487

The Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington says the average price of homes sold in March was $575,099, up 4.9 per cent from March of last year.

03/27/2019

Talk about inspiring! Can’t wait to see this unfold 🏗🌆💛

Allen Le came to Hamilton as a kid as one of the Vietnamese boat people. Now he’s building a high rise here.