The Molly & Claude Team

The Molly & Claude Team Realtors Ottawa, Royal LePageTeam Realty

Ottawa Condo for Sale
Vanier
1204-158C McArthur Avenue
$342,500
Coming soon to MLS

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Welcome to 1204-158C McArthur Avenue a bright, renovated, open-concept 2-bedroom condo in the well maintained Chateau Vanier. Open-concept kitchen with abundant storage, stainless steel appliances, and granite countertop. Easy to maintain laminate throughout. Ample closets and insuite locker. Underground parking. Great amenities include pool, sauna, gym, party room, library, and workshop. Close to shopping including 24-hour grocery next door and another grocery store across the street. Easy access to 417. Close to downtown.



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Decor/Design Trends that will rule 2023

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As you know I’m not a huge fan of trends. But one must have a certain sense of what is in and what is out otherwise one can find oneself in a timecapsule. Some good ideas here. Some house decor, some house design. Be careful when making house design decisions that are expensive and quickly dated. Plus of course some improvements dont increase the value of your home as much as you may think. Contact the Molly & Claude Team with any questions.

Clustering

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Last week I posted about cluttercore. Today I post about clustering. Clustering is an essential element of cluttercore. Now go display your collection. If you havent got a collection to display you’ve got work to do. BUT, here’s to me an important aspect: make it look collected not decorated. In order for it to look collected you really do need to find your passion and start acquiring items you love, sometimes it can take a moment. Perhaps this is a good moment for: it’s about the journey not the destination.

Architecture – Restaurants

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A friend sent me a link to an architecturally interesting restaurant and said perhaps there’s an architecture post in this. Well true enough! Below a selection of unique restaurant settings. If you know of others – let me know…


St Regis Hotel
Singapore




Steirereck
Vienna, Austria




White Rabbit
Moscow, Russia




Tori Tori
Mexico City, Mexico




Yellow Treehouse Restaurant
Auckland, New Zealand




Sarnic Restaurant
Inside a thousand year old cister
Istanbul, Turkey




Pitcher & Piano
Nottingham, England




Ristorante da Pancrazio
Rome, Italy




Eiffel Tower
Paris, France




Ithaa Restaurant
Under the sea
Maldives




Former RBC Bank of Canada
Montreal, Canada



What you’ll need to earn to afford a house in Ottawa in 2023

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Ratehub.ca did an analysis of the income needed to purchase a house in different Canadian cities. At the moment the annual income required in Ottawa is $122,440.

Here is the annual income required for other Canadian cities:

  • Vancouver: $212,800
  • Toronto: $207,000
  • Victoria: $169,250
  • Hamilton: $159,100
  • Calgary: $105,680
  • Montreal: $103,560
  • Halifax: $102,260
  • Edmonton: $79,370
  • Winnipeg: $72,500

Cluttercore

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Cluttercore! A new, to me, word. A new esthetic. I’ve had to look at different posts to distinguish between maximalism and cluttercore. I’m not 100% I’d recognize one room done in one esthetic vs one done in the other. My impression is maximalism has no hesitation of various colours and paterns on all surfaces. Cluttercore is about collecting, and exhibiting those collections. There’s a distinction of editing made. I think that cluttercore does not edit whereas maximalism does. I’ve found a few posts on the subject perhaps various reads call help.

Explore away! Tell me your findings.

Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) – Canadian Home Sales Begin 2023 at a 14-year low

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The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) recently released its January 2023 national statistics.

Highlights:

  • National home sales declined 3% month-over-month in January.
  • Actual (not seasonally adjusted) monthly activity came in 37.1% below January 2022.
  • The number of newly listed properties rose 3.3% month-over-month.
  • The MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) declined by 1.9% month-over-month and was down 12.6% year-over-year.
  • The actual (not seasonally adjusted) national average sale price posted an 18.3% decline year-over-year in January.
Read the complete January 2023 CREA news release. Tara Deschamps of The Candian Press provides an editorial with Douglas Porter of BMO Capital Markets Rishi Sondhi of TD Economics in CityNews Everywhere.

About Us

Molly Hoyle Sales Representative
Claude Jobin Représentant des ventes

E-Mail

claude@claudejobin.com




Phone / Address

Phone: 613.804.7979
1723 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario