Moving to the Country - Advice for Buying an Acreage Near Edmonton
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Sheldon and Sara were recently joined for a Facebook Live by some of Liv’s resident experts on purchasing and living in a rural home. Tameka Ross, Lindsay Parsons and Allison Meston all had amazing information to share, and we’ve compiled it all into the blog post below.
Watch the replay here:
Covid has seriously impacted the real estate market from a huge drop last march to a completely unexpected surge this spring.
The biggest trend over the last 10 months has been the desire for more space and along with that, there has been a huge growth in sales of rural properties.
Reasons people have been making the move:
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It's not broken, we just moved your cheese.
It's been just over five years since we've done any major updates to our very popular home search website EdmontonRealEstate.pro. Last time, on December 15, 2015, we had about 5,500 user sessions a day. Lately, we've been averaging about 17,000 user sessions a day. The most traffic we ever saw in one day was 19,803 user sessions on June 30, 2020.
So why change things? Especially when we know people love the site, and people hate change.
66% of our traffic is on a mobile device, and the mobile experience on our new site is far superior to the old one. Our new site has been designed "mobile-first" so it works as well on a phone as it does on a desktop. It's designed for speed, and it has a beautiful map-based…
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