Bill Jones a Realtor®'s Blog

The City of Airdrie, just north of Calgary, is experiencing unprecedented growth with near doubling of real-estate prices. City Council, staff and citizens are increasingly interested in sustainable growth and development which has led the City to work with The Natural Step in creating a municip...

  Technology I use as a Realtor - PART 2   Today's Post is going to be software related, you will notice in this and subsequent Tech. posts that I lean toward FREE Stuff and where possible software that works on Windows or Mac.   Well here we go, have you ever wished you could have access to that...

  Wow! what a Kick off, the first day of the annual AIRDRIE Home and Garden Fair held at the Twin Arenas in Airdrie Alberta was a Rip Roaring success.  Everything was kicked off by a Stampede style Chuck Wagon Breakfast in the company of Royalty.  The Calgary Stampede Queen and 2 Princesses,were ...

  The Airdrie Hunting and Fishing Association was formed last February by Wes David and aims to get Airdrie’s youth and families involved in more outdoor sporting activities. The  main goal is to get kids and families involved. It’s not just about going out and hunting. It’s about all outdoor spo...

        It's Spring Time in the Rockies, well close to the Rockies, Airdrie's Spring brings our Annual Home and Garden Fair.  This year as usual it is being held at our Twin Arenas Complex.  There will be Fun and Entertainment for all, it runs from April 25th to April 26th, 2009.   From 9am to 5p...

Bedrooms (#): 3 bedrooms Bathrooms (#): 2 bathrooms Size (sqft): 1036 Price: $ 206,000.00 Address: 96 Summerfield Close, Airdrie, AB, T4B View map Location: Airdrie, Alberta, Canada Date Listed: 18-Apr-09  This Bilevel House in the mature community of Summerfield Airdrie, Alberta, is situated on...

This is part one of a 10 part series about the technology I use to run my Real Estate Business.  These posts will include discussion on Hardware and software from Handheld technology to PC's and Macs, Windows to Apple and a bunch of stuff in between.  I will also include some Links that will allo...

Airdrie RCMP members are warning residents to trust their instincts and err on the side of caution in relation to a recent fraud scheme. On April 3, the RCMP was notified about a recent scam occurring in the community in which a senior was conned out of a significant amount of money. The senior r...

An Airdrie high school student was lucky to avoid injury after he claims his Apple iPhone internally combusted and began smoking, hissing and expanded in his hand before he threw it to the ground. The student said he  was texting on the phone when it suddenly got hot and began expanding, it star...

Check this out from my good friend at RECR. Before we get into this, let's take a quick look at the current situation in the housing market.  All indicators point to the fact that interest rates will be dropping further.  This is going to lead to a rapid increase in refinancing for existing mortg...