Created by professional Realtors® Rees Smith and Kari Griffith – the Smith & Griffith Real Estate Team with CIR Realty – combines acreage and rural property specialists with urban residential sales and marketing professionals.
Welcome to Spring 2020
For many folks, Alberta winters are more about skiing and hockey games than buyers and sellers. But as we turn our clocks ahead and the spring weather arrives, so does a renewed interest in real estate.
The rumours are true; the dreaded stress test is being amended!
IN MAY OF 2018, policy makers instituted the Stress Test for mortgage qualifying with the intention to ensure that homeowners would be able to keep up with increased payments, as interest rates increased.
Dan Hawkwood: Travelling While Selling Your Property, Signing Documents
In this, the fifth instalment of our series with Dan Hawkwood — an Associate Lawyer at Beaumont Church LLP in Calgary — Dan explains the process for signing various documents while clients are travelling. Dan comes from a long line of farmers and ranchers in the Calgary area and brings the experience of his rural upbringing to his practice. Dan is customer service driven and client focused adding to a great real estate experience.
Merry Christmas from the Smith & Griffith Real Estate Team with CIR Realty
As 2019 winds down and we begin to spend the holidays with family and friends, our real estate team has reflected on our busy year and we are most thankful for the clients that we have been blessed to work with this past year.
Dan Hawkwood: Joint Tenancy and Estate Planning
In this, the fourth instalment of our series with Dan Hawkwood — an Associate Lawyer at Beaumont Church LLP in Calgary — Dan explains the options you may consider for holding the title to a property and their various impacts on estate planning. Dan comes from a long line of farmers and ranchers in the Calgary area and brings the experience of his rural upbringing to his practice. Dan is customer service driven and client focused adding to a great real estate experience.