Oakville & Burlington Real Estate Blog - Dan Cooper

HUSH a finalist in prestigious builder awards for Oakville homes

Dan Cooper — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:29:55 +0000

Featured in the photo are President and CEO of Hush Homes Naheel Suleman with Dan Cooper.

Congratulations to HUSH on its nominations for Project of the Year and Most Outstanding Production Home (two-storey, 2,500 square feet and over) for two of its developments in South-West Oakville. The Ontario Home Builders’ Association’s Awards of Distinction are major awards in which builders all across Ontario compete. Simply becoming a finalist is a significant feat. I’ve written in the past about HUSH’s two special enclaves of new homes that recently went on sale that offer French and English inspired designs, and some very unique features and homeownership packages.

Being nominated in the OHBA’s Awards of Distinction is just proof that these developments are something special for Oakville and area. HUSH is nominated for Project of the Year for both the Avalon and The Gardens at Coronation locations. In the Most Outstanding Production Built Home category, this exceptional builder has two home designs nominated – the Aubergine Palais and Lily of the Valley. Avalon in South-West Oakville includes 12 French inspired homes that are conveniently located on Lakeshore Road West, close to downtown Oakville and Appleby College. At Avalon, you can experience the city living of shopping and dining without sacrificing a private home environment. This is where you will find the Aubergine Palais.

The Gardens of Coronation feature 14 English-style homes that are steps away from Coronation Park and Lake Ontario. Some lots here have been designed to allow for a third-storey loft where you can enjoy spectacular views of the park and lake. And this is where the award-nominated Lily of the Valley will be built. While these homes are nominated in the Most Outstanding Production Home, HUSH is not your typical production builder. For example, the bungalows in each location can be completely customized to your liking, right down to the floor plan. And like all HUSH projects, these homes are loaded with top quality products and materials – hardwood floors, 10-foot ceilings, Wolf and Sub-Zero gourmet appliances, granite countertops, marble, and high-end fixtures by Kohler just to name a few of the luxury appointments that are standard in all HUSH homes.

HUSH builds their homes to exceed Energy Star standards and provides an extensive “green” package that offers additional solutions such as solar power and geothermal heating and cooling so you can make your home as energy-efficient and eco-friendly as you want. With homes ranging from 1,800 to 4,000 square feet, loaded with high-end products, quality construction and high energy efficiency, HUSH is offering a carefree lifestyle and a superbly maintained residence for as long as you own the property. The quality of these homes and the attention they are receiving from qualified judges for the OHBA’s Awards of Distinction is a testament to the great real estate investment opportunities that exist in the Oakville and Burlington areas.

If you are in the market for a true dream home in a spectacular location, you must check out these new homes by HUSH. To see what makes HUSH an award-winning builder, I encourage you to visit the presentation centre at 417 Lakeshore Road West. Visitation is by appointment during the week and open houses from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, or register at HUSH.CA. Or give my office a call and we will be glad to help you make the ideal selection – to optimize your enjoyment and investment. And good luck HUSH on September 21 when the OHBA announces the winners.

Dan Cooper is an award winning Broker with Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage – the Number 1 Royal LePage Team for Canada in 2009. He can be reached at 905.338.3737, direct line at 905.849.3303 or through his innovative and interactive website at DanCooper.com. Be sure to catch the Dan Cooper Real Estate Series on DailyWebTV.com. For his free booklet How To Sell Your House For Top Dollar – Fast! or his Guide to Oakville Real Estate, please call the Dan Cooper Team.

Blame the decline in home sales on the harmonized sales tax

Dan Cooper — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:57:04 +0000

As predicted, the pace of home sales slowed in July as consumers adjusted to the new harmonized sales tax. Coupled with the fact that interest rates were rising, the rush to buy homes prior to the HST coming into effect on July 1 resulted in an overheated market in May and June. But this current slowdown in the market is expected to be short lived.

Earlier this month Jeff Mahannah, President of the Oakville, Milton and District Real Estate Board, said, “Sales transactions are down for July, but overall for the year-to-date we are on par or are observing a slight increase in transactions when compared to 2009. What I anticipate, once the public has time to adjust to the HST and realize that interest rates are still affordable, is an increase in activity in sales transactions in September.” This is what he is talking about. Last month residential sales for Oakville were down by 48 percent compared to July 2009 and the average sale price – $505,999 – decreased by 0.2 percent. However, year-to-date sales were still up by 5 percent and the average sale price was up by 13 percent.

In Burlington, the story is quite similar. “July was certainly a quiet month for sales,” said Joe Ferrante, President of the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington, “but it was not at all unexpected. Despite the slower sales in July, our year-to-date sales are still up 10.7 per cent over this time last year.” The average price of freehold residential properties sold in Hamilton-Burlington in July was $329,317, an increase of 5.5 per cent over July last year. In the condominium market the average price of condominiums in July was $237,304, an increase of 1.6 per cent over July 2009. “We have a good inventory of listings,” Ferrante explains, “which makes Hamilton, Burlington and our outlying areas such a great place to buy real estate right now.”

Whether it is a slow market or an overheated market, each brings particular challenges of their own and the key to making the best deal possible is to work with a broker who has a proven track record and is a consistent top performer – someone who you are confident will be able to sell your home quickly and for top dollar. Innovative marketing and investment, knowledge about the marketplace, commitment and exemplary service differentiate the Dan Cooper Real Estate Team. The result is that we are achieving accomplishments that illustrate the Dan Cooper difference. We are the Number 1 team in Canada for Royal LePage, which is a testament to our ability to sell homes fast in the Oakville and Burlington areas. In fact, we have been the Number 1 team for seven of the past ten years. We were also named Best Real Estate Agent and Best Real Estate Team in North Oakville Today’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards. The Readers’ Choice Awards are as grassroots as you can get, and being named Number 1 for both agent and team are proof that we are having a significant impact right here in our own community.

Using the Internet to sell homes faster and for more money

Dan Cooper — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:36:16 +0000

The mark of a good real estate agent is the lengths to which he or she will go to market your home. In today’s marketplace, it is not enough to merely place a few ads in the real estate section of the local newspaper. Advertising, of course, is important – and that is why I go big whenever I use traditional media. I consistently take out one and two page spreads in these sections. I also carefully select the most effective magazines – and again take the best strategic positioning within those publications to provide the maximum exposure for my clients.

But perhaps most important, I have been a leader in utilizing the Internet by developing a unique online marketing program. My DanCooperTV.com website was ahead of its time when I launched it a few years ago and it remains a dynamic element of my marketing strategy today. The video-based format brings properties to life, providing a much more striking impact than static images. Whether you are buying or selling a home, the opportunity to display a property through a live tour of the home accompanied by a voice-over description of the home’s unique features is a powerful tool. The seller is able to advertise their property in a whole new light and the buyer is able to take a comprehensive tour at their leisure and convenience. Professionally produced, this site offers an incredible venue like no other.

A good real estate website, however, should be more than just a vehicle for selling homes. At DanCooperTV.com, you will find a wealth of information about your area and some of the people in it – the retailers, businesses and charitable organizations that make Oakville and Burlington vibrant and engaging communities. See my entire educational series on home inspections with advice directly from the experts. You will also meet members of the Dan Cooper team, providing you with an opportunity to better learn who we are and our approach, to begin building that ever important open and honest relationship that needs to develop between broker and client. I want you to be comfortable with our team, to trust that everyone is working in your best interest.

If you haven’t visited DanCooperTV in awhile, take a look – and take a visual tour of some of the exciting properties we have posted on the site. We recently posted a tour of a spectacular mansion on two acres of country property on Trafalgar Road, just north of Highway 407. This is a home that many passersby have wondered about – and here it is on my website. It’s the new, cutting-edge approach to marketing homes and we’re leading this exciting trend. There are other developing technologies that we are looking into and I will talk more about those in the future.

In the meantime, for more information about how we can sell your home quickly and for top dollar, visit my website DanCooper.com or give the office a call and we would be more than happy to tell you more.

Get the best price for your home during a slowdown

Dan Cooper — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:10:52 +0000

Canada’s residential real estate market will start to slow in the second half of 2010 after two quarters of strong price increases and sales activity, according to the most recent Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Survey Forecast. While sales activity was strong in the first half of the year, it is expected to cool off for the third and fourth quarters with prices flattening.

This is how Phil Soper, President and CEO of Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage, explains the situation: “We have seen an unusual pattern of activity in the housing market over the past 12 months, with the market experiencing a surge of activity and price increases that peaked in the fall of 2009 rather than spring. Early 2010 followed a more typical seasonal pattern with prices and activity peaking in the second quarter. An expected increase in the supply of homes on the market will now bring stabilization in prices and in some cities we will see both prices and unit sales decline towards the end of the year. This should not be interpreted as a severe correction but rather a natural reaction to the market having peaked quite early this year.”

The surge of activity in the first half of 2010 in Ontario was prompted by a number of factors, including an increase in interest rates in the spring, tightening of mortgage lending rules for first-time homebuyers and investors, and the lead up to the introduction of the HST. In June, residential resales in Oakville were down by 34 per cent compared with June 2009, but on a positive note for sellers, the average price showed a healthy increase of 19 per cent – $616,907 compared with $516,681 in 2009. And the luxury market continued to heat up recording 28 sales over $1 million, with six of those sales surpassing $2 million in June.

The Burlington area resale market reported a decrease of 15 percent from the same month last year, and a decrease of 6 percent from May of this year. The total unit sales for the first six months of 2010 are being reported at 18.7 percent higher than the same period last year, while new units listed are 20.7 percent higher than last year at this time, according to the Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington. A slower market brings increased inventory levels and fewer bidding wars, which creates opportunities for buyers who may not have been able to find what they wanted in the spring.

The key, especially during a slow market, is to deal with a broker who has a proven track record and is a consistent top performer – someone who you are confident will be able to sell your home quickly and for top dollar. Innovative marketing initiatives and investment, knowledge about the marketplace, commitment and exemplary service differentiate the Dan Cooper Real Estate Team. The result is that we are achieving accomplishments that illustrate the Dan Cooper difference. We are the Number 1 team in Canada for Royal LePage, which is a testament to our ability to sell homes fast in the Oakville and Burlington areas. In fact, we have been the Number 1 team for seven of the past 10 years. This is an accomplishment that does not happen by accident, but rather by design. Our dedication and commitment to selling your home, along with superior marketing strategies, have time and time again helped our clients sell their homes quickly and for top dollar.

We were also named Best Real Estate Agent and Best Real Estate Team in North Oakville Today’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards. The Readers’ Choice Awards are as grassroots as you can get, and being named Number 1 for both agent and team are proof that we are having a significant impact right here in our own community.

Raising more than $1 million in support of cancer research

Dan Cooper — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:31:16 +0000

Two weeks ago I wrote about my intention to participate in the Joe’s Team Triathlon to raise money for the head and neck translational research program at The Princess Margaret. On July 10th, I joined about 550 other participants to swim, bike and run at Lake Joseph, Muskoka and together we raised more than $1 million to support critical cancer research funded by The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.

The background of this event is that in 2004, Joe Finley began a difficult fight with cancer, a battle that he is very much fighting today. Despite the physical and emotional toll of an extremely aggressive cancer treatment, Joe fulfilled a life-long objective in August 2006 – he completed his first triathlon. Crossing the finish line was just the beginning for Joe. Teamed up with The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, Joe created “Joe’s Team,” an innovative cancer fundraising initiative that has in four short years raised well over $3 million.

Today, this physically challenging triathlon stands as the community event that is far surpassing the expectations of everyone involved, a claim that can only be made because of the generous support of sponsors, participants and donors. I want to thank all of you who made generous donations to this worthy cause through my website DanCooper.com. My team was able to raise several thousands of dollars thanks to your generosity.

I am passionate about giving back to organizations that have a major impact to the quality of life of people we know and love. While most of my philanthropy is geared towards Oakville and Burlington organizations, cancer is an insidious disease that touches all of us. We all have a family member, or relative or friend who has been stricken with this horrible illness. And so, I was proud to be a participant in a triathlon to raise money for one of the most prevalent diseases of our lifetime.

The Dan Cooper Team is dedicated to giving back to the community and we support numerous causes, from youth sports teams to major fundraising events such as the Dan Cooper Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament held last month at Glen Abbey for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton, Comic Vision, the most successful evening of stand-up comedy and fundraiser for the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Oakville Hospital Foundation’s fundraising campaign for the New Oakville Hospital, and the Oakville Centre of the Performing Arts, just to name a few. Being able to do something that will change the lives of others for the better is the best gift of all. And so, I encourage everyone to get involved, give what you can to help make the Oakville and Burlington area a great place to live.

Helping to make our community a greener place

Dan Cooper — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:57:05 +0000

Have you got a corner of the basement where you’ve piled all your old televisions and computer equipment? And every time you pass it, you say to yourself you have to cart it all away some day. On Saturday, you can do just that. You can finally haul all that outdated technology away, have some fun, some lunch and help a great cause. It’s the second annual Environmental Awareness Day sponsored by Tim Hortons and the Oakville Chamber of Commerce, in association with Kerr Village BIA and Home Depot Children’s Workshop.

The day again is this Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 111 Cross Avenue, Oakville (Trafalgar Village). You will be able to browse through green exhibits by local vendors, enjoy great entertainment by DJ Central and the Toronto Argonauts cheerleaders, and a barbecue lunch courtesy of M&M Meat Shops. Proceeds are going to one of my favourite charities – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton. BBBSH continues to have a long waiting list of children who are looking for a positive mentoring relationship in their lives. Most of us, if we look back at our own successes, have had someone to guide us, offer advice, support and encouragement. However, mentoring is more than just that. Mentoring is also about the power of friendship; especially children who need someone to laugh with, share a dream with or just to hang out with.
Few of us may be aware that there are hundreds of youth at-risk here in our own community. Often, our comfortable and insular lives shield us from some very hard truths in our back yard. This reality, however, is only too clear to the great people and volunteers at BBBSH.

Saturday’s Environmental Awareness Day touches on two areas that I have become passionate about – supporting great local causes, especially organizations that are providing programs for our youth, and the green movement. As a real estate broker, I have become more and more involved in eco-friendly building and I am proud to be the broker of record for Halton’s first GreenHouse certified home built in Bronte Village by Greenbilt Homes. It’s exciting to be associated with the latest evolution in building and to be part of this critical movement of creating homes that will reduce our carbon footprint.

Achieving the GreenHouse Construction certification is a remarkable accomplishment and you can see what makes the home special by taking a virtual tour on DanCooperTV.com. Simply click on the video titled Oakville’s First Green Home. While you are on my website, also check out some of the video we shot at the Dan Cooper Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament held last month at Glen Abbey Golf Club in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton. It was a lot of fun, featured some great celebrities and raised money for a very worthy cause.

Again, this Saturday at Trafalgar Village. Bring your outdated monitors, towers, laptops and televisions and help us make our planet a greener place … and have some fun and help a great cause at the same time.

Readers’ Choice Platinum winner for best agent and best team

Dan Cooper — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:29:33 +0000

Thank you to everyone who voted to make The Dan Cooper Team of Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage the Platinum winner for Best Real Estate Agent and Best Real Estate Team in North Oakville Today’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Of all the awards my team and I have won over the years, the most gratifying are those that are the result of the recognition we receive from people in our own community. The Readers’ Choice Awards are as grassroots as you can get, and being named Number 1 for both agent and team are proof that we are having a significant impact right here in our own community. I believe this recognition has been achieved for two reasons – our business success and community giving.

We are very active in Oakville and Burlington and that has provided us with a very high profile. In fact, earlier this year we were proud to have earned the distinction of being the Number 1 Royal LePage Team for Canada in 2009. This is our seventh top finish in the past 10 years and is a testament to a lot of hard work and a high degree of success for our clients. What it means for our clients is that they are with one of the best real estate firms in the country. Our creative marketing strategies are accomplishing two things – they are selling homes quickly and for top dollar.

So, the recognition by the Readers’ Choice Awards is in a large part due to the hard work we put into selling your home. We have developed innovative and carefully selected methods of showcasing your home for optimum exposure. These methods involve selecting the prime advertising spots in a variety of publications and using the Internet more creatively than any other broker. For example, my DanCooper.com website is bringing properties to life through a video-based platform. I’m proud to be one of the first to tap into this exciting form of marketing to provide you with a competitive edge when selling your home.

In fact, by June we had achieved a significant real estate milestone – we surpassed 100 homes sold this year. Reaching this level of sales so quickly is the primary reason we are the Number 1 Team in Canada for Royal LePage. The Readers’ Choice Awards reinforces the exposure we are gaining for your properties which also puts The Dan Cooper Team of Royal LePage in the spotlight.

Achieving a high community profile, however, requires more than simply being recognized for our business visibility. Being community minded is critical in today’s world. We have an obligation to give back to the community in which we work and live and I’m proud of the sponsorships and support we are able to provide to community causes and organizations – both large and small. These include the Oakville Hospital Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Comic Vision for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts just to name a few. Building a strong community requires support from all of us.

Again, thank you to all who voted to recognize the role my team and I have been able to play to help make our community vibrant and healthy.

JOE’S TEAM FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN

Dan Cooper — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:50:54 +0000

Featured in the photo from right to left:
Bruce Smith, Joe Finley (Joe’s Team), Dan Cooper

If you are a regular reader of my column, you know I’m a big supporter of some very worthwhile causes. I am passionate about giving back, not only to the local community, but also to organizations that have a major impact to the quality of life of people we know and love. Cancer is an insidious disease that touches all of us. We all have a family member, or relative or friend who has been stricken with this horrible illness. On July 10th, I’m proud to be a participant in a triathlon to raise money for one of the most prevalent diseases of our lifetime.

The triathlon is a key challenge in the Joe’s Team Fundraising Campaign, which raises money for The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. The background is that in 2004, Joe Finley began a difficult fight with cancer, a battle that he is very much fighting today. Despite the physical and emotional toll of an extremely aggressive cancer treatment (or perhaps, some say, because of it), Joe fulfilled a life-long objective in August 2006 – he completed his first triathlon.

Crossing the finish line was just the beginning for Joe. Teamed up with The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, Joe has created “Joe’s Team,” an innovative cancer fundraising initiative that has in three short years already raised $2.1 million. The need to conquer cancer in our lifetime is urgent and important. Right now, 2 in 5 people will hear these words in their lifetime: “You have cancer.” Those words will transform their life and the lives of their loved ones forever. The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation at University Health Network raises funds for research, education and the enhancement of patient care at Canada’s leading cancer research hospital, the Princess Margaret and its research arm, the Ontario Cancer Institute. To learn more about The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation visit our website at www.pmhf.ca.

Where does your money go? Funds raised by Joe’s Team benefit The Joe’s Team Fund supporting The Princess Margaret Hospital Head & Neck Translational Research Program, a leading international research team of 28 dedicated clinicians and scientists whose vital research leads to potential new drugs, radiation and individualized treatment options that are more effective, less toxic, and will increase a patients quality and length of life. Our support helps researchers and clinical staff to have tremendous impact on the lives of patients and provide the basis for scientific breakthroughs in other human malignancies including head and neck, lung, breast and colorectal cancers. With the support of Joe’s Team, The Princess Margaret’s translational research program will significantly advance its understanding of the development and progression of head and neck cancer.

Yes, cancer can be beaten, and with your help, I would like to make a significant contribution to the fight. Please go to my website and make a pledge. Log onto DanCooper.com and simply follow the links to the Joe’s Team form. Even a small donation goes a long way. Collectively we can make a difference in someone’s life. So be generous, give what you can and together we can accomplish something significant and fulfilling. I can’t describe the feeling I get when I know I’ve done something that will change the lives of others for the better. That’s the best gift of all. Again, please visit my website and support a great cause.

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Celebrities, golf and raising money for a great cause!

Dan Cooper — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:29:29 +0000

Featured in the photo from left to right:
Craig Walkins, Matt Dunigan, Dan Cooper, Frank Dunigan

I’m proud to be partnered with a great organization such as the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton. Their work has a tremendous impact on children at-risk in our community, providing critical mentorship programs for children and youth of all ages who need our help.

And I’m immensely pleased that the first Dan Cooper Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament held on June 24th at Glen Abbey was a sold out affair and is fully expected to have reached BBBSH’s goal of raising $60,000. I want to thank all those who participated to make this inaugural invitational a huge success, and to the celebrities who made time for this great cause – CFL greats Matt Dunigan and Miles Gorrell, Canadian actor Art Hindle, sports broadcaster and former NHL executive Gord Stellick to name a few.

Jules Graham-Hood, BBBSH Executive Director, had these kind words, “We are very grateful to have Dan and his team looking at a long-term relationship with BBBSH and our ‘Give Where You Live Work and Play’ campaign. Next year has some new surprises in store for our more fair weather golfers who wish to play a little and enjoy a little pampering and delicacies in support of BBBSH.”

It can be a challenge when there are several golf tournaments each day for worthy charities, not to mention donor fatigue. However grassroots charities such as the BBBSH are preventative in focus, helping children in the early stages by providing mentorship that has a positive impact that lasts a lifetime with these kids of all ages. Our young people are our future leaders and it is critical that we provide all the support we can to ensure they develop into good citizens, business people and community leaders. Few of us may be aware that there are hundreds of youth at-risk here in our own community. Often, our comfortable and insular lives shield us from some very hard truths in our back yard. This reality, however, is only too clear to the great people and volunteers at BBBSH.

“Give where you live” is a slogan adopted by many charitable organizations across North America, but it really does sum up my own personal philanthropic objectives and the approach of the Dan Cooper Team when it comes to donations and giving back to the community. I have chosen a number of outstanding organizations in which to make significant contributions. The new Oakville Hospital will be built in the very near future and so I have pledged a percentage of my commissions to the Oakville Hospital Foundation because I believe a strong and vibrant community needs state-of-the-art health care for its citizens.

I was also proud to be the venue sponsor for Comic Vision at Le Dome on North Service Road East in April. This is Canada’s most successful night of stand-up comedy and fundraising in support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Other organizations I support include the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Culture and arts are also critical for the well-being of a community and I’m proud that my Dan Cooper Concert Series brings internationally acclaimed performers to our small corner of the globe. To find out who is performing in the coming months visit www.oc4pa.ca.

I encourage all of you to give back to the community in any way you can; whether it is with money or time or both. Your efforts and contributions help make our community stronger and a better place in which to live.

Surpassing the 100th sale is significant milestone

Dan Cooper — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:55:12 +0000

The Dan Cooper Team of Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., Brokerage is proud to have achieved a significant milestone recently – we surpassed 100 homes sold so far this year. Reaching this level of sales so quickly is the primary reason we are the Number 1 team in Canada for Royal LePage and a testament to our ability to sell homes fast in the Oakville and Burlington areas.

In fact, we have been the Number 1 team for seven of the past 10 years. This is an accomplishment that does not happen by accident, but rather by design. Our dedication and commitment to selling your home, along with superior marketing strategies, have time and time again helped our clients sell their homes quickly and for top dollar. As a home seller you will be working with a broker who has developed innovative and carefully selected methods of showcasing your home for optimum exposure. Exposure, after all, is the key to selling your home. The more people who view your property, the higher number of bona fide prospects you will attract. It’s simple math and it works.

That’s why I have developed one of the strongest advertising programs compared to any broker in the Oakville area. My listings are in numerous publications that I have personally selected for their market penetration, as well as developing innovative online strategies. I am using the Internet more creatively than any other broker. For example, both my main website DanCooper.com and my unique DanCooperTV.com website are bringing properties to life through a video-based platform. I’m proud to be one of the first to tap into this exciting form of marketing to provide you with a competitive edge when selling your home. These websites are also linked with countless retailers throughout Oakville, providing a reach unlike most others.

But it doesn’t stop there. Just to give you an idea of how attentive the Dan Cooper Team is to detail, even the most basic tool for selling real estate recently received a makeover – the yard sign. I redesigned my For Sale sign to differentiate the sale of your home from brokers still using the typical black lettering on white background. Instead, I have opted for an elegant, classy look – white letter on a black background. This look has always signified a sense of sophistication and elegance and that’s how I want to market your home.

To many, a sign is simply sign. I disagree. The For Sale sign is the first thing a prospective buyer sees when they drive up your street. If first impressions count, then how will the condition of the sign influence the buyer’s perception of your home? Being faded or warped from the weather or leaning on an angle may seem trivial to many, but I believe the presentation of every aspect of your home is vitally important to influencing the sale.

Besides superior exposure for your home, there are a host of other benefits when dealing with the Dan Cooper Team, such as complimentary home staging consultation; instant access to our team of lawyers, home inspectors, mortgage brokers, appraisers and contractors; ongoing updates and progress reports as part of our in-depth communications; and being served by a team of multi-disciplined professionals with more than 40 years of combined experience. Combined with my own 20 plus years in the Oakville and Burlington markets, the choice is clear – Dan Cooper of Royal LePage. Whether buying or selling, the Dan Cooper Team is ready to serve you.