The REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) reported 998 sales of residential properties located within the RAHB market area were processed through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) System in February 2020. Sales are up 30 per cent over last month and up 25.5 per cent over February 2019. The average price for residential properties increased to $646,667, which is up 4.5 per cent from last month and up 15.5 per cent from the same month last year.
On February, Bill 145, the Trust in Real Estate Services Act (“TRESA”) passed unanimously in the Ontario Legislature. TRESA still needs final proclamation and certain sections require supporting regulations before officially becoming a law.
It adopts over 20 OREA recommendations, including:
Adopting specialty certifications;
Stopping a ban on multiple representation;
Strengthening the real estate discipline system;
Blocking a mandatory auction offer system; and,
Permitting personal real estate corporations (PRECs).
The Minister of Government and Consumer Services has also committed to changing regulations under REBBA to allow members to use REALTORS® or “real estate agent” in their advertising
RAHB is pleased to introduce a new Client Full report which will be available Thursday, March 12, 2020, in the Matrix Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) application. The benefit of this new report is that it contains more detailed property information. Previously only the “CMA Pro” and “CMA Brief” reports were available, offering limited basic information. When a user wanted a more detailed report, the report had to be created, converted to a PDF file and added to “My Custom CMA Pages” to utilize. The addition of the new Client Full report allows users a hassle free option to use and apply when preparing a CMA.
The new Client Full report contains the following property information:
If you wish to use this new report when creating a CMA, please follow the instructions outlined below:
Hover over the “My Matrix” tab
Click “My CMA’s”
Click “Start a new CMA”
Click the “Pages” header
Click the “+” sign next to “Comparables” under “Available Pages” header
Click on the “Client Full CMA” report
The report should now display under the “Selected Pages” header
Select any additional pages you wish to remove from your “Selected Pages” and click the red “X” button
Click the “Set as Default” link to make these pages your new CMA default
Should you have any further questions, please contact the MLS® Help Desk at 905.667.4650 or e-mail [email protected]
The Residential/Commercial Property Information Forms have recently been updated. Newly printed copies of the residential forms are now available for sale in the Realty Shoppe and both updated forms are available for download from WEBForms® dated (01/2020).
The updated forms may be used immediately. Members may continue to use RAHB’s previous forms (dated July 2018) until Friday, March 27, 2020; after which they will no longer be accepted. If you have any questions please call the MLS® Help Desk at 905.667.4650.
On January 18, RAHB hosted the Annual Awards and Appreciation Gala, where our volunteers were recognized as well as 25, 40 and 50 year members.
The Volunteer of the Year award was also given to Donna Bacher, our President Elect!
25 Year – 1994
Jack Aquino Dana Borkovich Paul Busnello Kim Condari Ken Cook Rick Ferroni Barry Fraser J. Allan Freeman John D. Fumio John Graham Barbara Hurst Debbie Kennedy Pat Loranger Paula Mahony Norm Merz Robert Miles Fred Moodie Les Myers Margaret Niburski WaldemarNiburski Margo Nichols Anna Powell E. Wayne Quirk Patricia Rende Dave Van Leeuwen Peter Vandendool Brenda Walker Mark Zizzo
40 Year – 1979
Mark Biehler Anne Cecil Linda Davies Josie DiBacco Chris Diliberto Anthony Hozjan David Jarvis Stanley Jugovic Donna Lavin Kimberley Leone Isaac Phillips John Pocsai Robin St. Jean Geoffrey Walker
The REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) reported 692 sales of residential properties located within the RAHB market area were processed through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) System in January 2020. Sales are up 5 per cent over the same month last year, and up 18.3 per cent over December 2019. The average price for residential properties increased by 11.9 per cent from January 2019 to $617,496.
The REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) reported 12,866 sales of residential properties located within the RAHB market area were processed through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) System in 2019. This is 10.1 per cent more sales than in 2018. The average price of a residential property in 2019 was $587,745. This is up 4.9 per cent from 2018, and 95.3 per cent higher from 10 years ago. New residential listings were down 4 per cent compared to the previous year.
Below is a friendly reminder to all RAHB members to properly identify yourself when in contact with other REALTORS®. This is beneficial for you, the REALTOR® you are attempting to contact, and your clients.
When calling other REALTORS®, please be sure to introduce yourself using your first and last name, identify that you are a REALTOR®, and provide your brokerage name.
When leaving a voicemail, please identify yourself as outlined above, as well as include your contact details.
When using e-mail, please follow the same process.
A previous communication from Terenet stated that 2020 property assessment values would be available in GeoWarehouse® in late January/early February. It has come to our attention that this is not correct. The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) will be conducting property reassessments this summer and the new assessment values will be made available in GeoWarehouse® in 2021. As such, please continue to use the 2016 assessed value until the 2020 value is made available.
Should you have any questions, please contact the MLS® Help Desk at 905.667.4650 or e-mail [email protected].
RAHB has been notified by Teranet that the 2020 MPAC Assessment data is expected to be available in GeoWarehouse in late January/ early February. Until that time, please continue to use the 2016 Assessed Value on your listings. RAHB will provide all members an update once the 2020 MPAC Assessment data is updated and available.
RAHB received two reports of thefts at open houses that took place this past Sunday, January 6, 2020. Both open houses took place on the Hamilton Mountain, and the possible suspects are a woman with two adult children.
We would like to remind members to be very diligent when hosting an open house — especially this time of year when many new items are within a home after the holidays.
If items are stolen from your open house, please notify police to ensure it is recorded. Please also notify RAHB so we can communicate with members, if appropriate.
If you hosted an open house this past weekend, please ensure items have not been stolen from the home of your clients. A possible follow-up with your clients is recommended to ensure this is the case.
Thank you to the members who notified us of these thefts.
The REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) reported 585 sales of residential properties located within the RAHB market area were processed through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) System in December 2019. This years December sales are up 3.9 per cent over December 2018; however, are down from both November and October of this year. The average price for residential properties increased by 7.6 per cent from December 2018 to $581,566.
CREA has decided to keep WEBForms® Legacy open past January 2, 2020.
Dear RAHB members,
CREA has been provided feedback on WEBForms® 2019 regarding difficulty of use and glitches. CREA has decided to keep WEBForms® Legacy open past January 2, 2020, allowing members access to the Legacy transaction kits to migrate to the new system. We have not been given a deadline date.
As a full member of RAHB, if you wish to migrate any of your transaction kits from Legacy to WEBForms® 2019, please click the below button for directions on how to get started:
If you have any questions or concerns, CREA is asking members to contact their Member Support Team at [email protected] or 1.800.842.2732.
The CREA WEBForms® 2019 Member Support Team has extended its hours and is now available from 8 a.m. to midnight (EST) on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (EST) on weekends.
Please find below an FAQ, which highlights some differences between CREA WEBForms® 2019 and CREA WEBForms® Legacy. This FAQ can also be found on the WEBForms® section on CREA’s REALTORLink® page.
The WEBForms® Training material on the Training Hub can be found here.
Below is a new video highlighting some of the features.
To further facilitate this transition, CREA has made a couple of adjustments to help members take the plunge:
On December 4, 2019, CREA flipped the landing page experience for all users. That means, as of December 5, 2019, everyone who accesses WEBForms® will land in the new CREA WEBForms® 2019 environment. You will only be able to go back to the legacy version until the official cut-off on January 2, 2020.
On December 16, 2019, WEBForms® Legacy switched to “Read Only Mode”. This means that members are still be able to access and edit existing transaction kits, download forms and migrate kits, but are no longer able to create new transaction kits in Legacy. Preventing new transaction kits from being created in a system that is two weeks away from going offline is a safeguard against a member creating a transaction kit one day and not having access to it the next.
Finally, before the end of the year, CREA will be issuing a maintenance release for CREA WEBForms® 2019. This release will include the convenient “Dynamic Paging” feature, meaning members will no longer need to start with multi-page schedules or use the “add page” function; pages will be added automatically as needed.
Getting started is easy and often takes less than an hour. In fact, you can dip your toes with these videos outlining the basics in just five minutes.
Migrating old transaction kits from the legacy version of WEBForms® to CREA WEBForms® 2019. (Note: your transactions will be editable, but forms will migrate over as flat document
Creating a Basic Transaction (outlining the quickest way to create a basic transaction.)
Further Training Resources
If you require further training, a support option is available within WEBForms® 2019, through the Member Dashboard.
And scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you can find training webinars, help guides, training videos, and recorded webinars.
If you have any questions or concerns, CREA is asking members to contact their Member Support Team at [email protected] or 1.800.842.2732.
The CREA WEBForms® 2019 Member Support Team has extended its hours and is now available from 8 a.m. to midnight (EST) on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (EST) on weekends.
