Free guide · For sellers
Selling Your Home in York Region and the GTA
What you'll really walk away with, what you're signing, which prep pays, how to handle the offers, and what to do in what order.
Written for York Region and GTA homeowners selling a house, townhouse or condo, whether it's your first sale or you're moving up, down or away.
- Your real net number, with a calculator for commission, HST, your mortgage penalty and the costs nobody mentions
- How to price on recent sales, not on memory
- What the listing agreement says, and six things to read before you sign
- The prep that pays, and the renovations that don't
- Offer dates, pre-emptive offers, conditions and deposits under Ontario's TRESA rules
- The mistakes sellers make, and what to do from 12 months out to closing day
Who wrote it
From an agent who trains other agents.
I'm Gary McGowan, a REALTOR® in York Region licensed since 2012. I coach Realtors across Canada on negotiation and systems, so other agents call me mid-deal for strategy. This guide is the same advice I give my own clients, written down.
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