Welcome to Royal LePage and HEATHER TILLEY's REAL ESTATE INFORMATION CENTER, 
Your first choice for OAKVILLE, BURLINGTON and MISSISSAUGA SOUTH. 

Referred to locally as Canada's 'Western Riviera', OAKVILLE, BURLINGTON, and MISSISSAUGA are within 20 minutes of downtown TORONTO, Ontario. These cities and town are home to some of the finest real estate and communities in the country. The Town of Oakville boasts the highest percentage of senior managers and the highest per-capita income earners in Canada. The City of Toronto is a world-famous city with leading hospitals, universities and is a central hub for North American trade, commerce and banking.

If you are visiting this site from abroad, you will find in time that this is tremendous area to live - with terrific schools, recreation, hospitals, and amenities that few major metropolitan cities offer, and without the violence and high crime rates so prevalent in other major cities internationally.

Put down the newspapers and turn off the TV's! Today's real estate market is still a very good market, homes are selling and people are still looking to buy. People want to live in Oakville and it remains largely unaffected by the uncertainty in other areas, mainly the USA. 

For Sellers, In today's more balanced real estate marketplace pricing your home to sell is key. People ask me constantly how is the market?  I truly believe that this is a good market for Buyers and Sellers. As long as the Sellers are realistic about the price of their home and realize that the time of selling a home in hours or days is past, their home will sell. Houses today are taking longer to sell than a couple of years ago. That is not such a bad thiing, people are not being rushed into buying a home and truly make an educated and well thought out choice. Homes are still selling and people still have to move!

For Buyers, fully 60-80% of the online MLS.ca homes that my clients send me do not match their needs in ways that someone who is new to the area; or who doesn't routinely buy and sell homes, would never catch. I am one of a small handful of local, experienced agents who visit 40+ open houses a week consistently. I am very knowledgeable with the Oakville Real Estate area; and I have lived in Toronto, in South Mississauga, and on the border of Oakville and Burlington now for more that 20 years.

There is NO CHARGE for my assistance in buying a home. In Canada, sellers pay for realtor commissions and I always recommend never to purchase a home from an agent who has listed the property you are considering.  Why insist on a separate Buyer agent? Because a Listing agent must consider the interests of the seller first and foremost - its a law in Canada in fact - and its common sense when you consider who is paying for the service.

Working with a Buyer agent avoids any conflicts-of-interest so that you get the home that best meets your needs; at a price that you can afford.

With the market being changing into a more balanced state, you can't afford to ignore every resource at your disposal. I work diligently to guide my clients throughout the process to ensure that the next home they buy or sell is the best personal and financial decision they can have made.

To help your online real estate research, I have designed HeatherTilley.com to be a unique, high-end web resource for you. Our customized MLS search and New Google mapping tools improve on MLS.ca's standard search tools quite a bit.

I hope you will find this web service as useful and user friendly as possible - so please don't hesitate to forward your comments. Helpful suggestions are always welcome and they improve the site for others as well. In many ways, this site was designed to be YOUR real estate website and I would like it to complement me to help you to find your dream home.

Whether you are buying or selling a home, I am always pleased to discuss your needs and options without pressure or obligation. Browse my website at your leasure - for listings, reports, and important Oakville real estate information. I certainly hope you will take a couple of minutes to introduce yourself in a quick email or phone call to my office. You can visit my 'About Me' page or read a couple of client testimonials. My 'family' of clients are a fantastic group of people with whom I have had the great privilege to assist in the listing of their homes and with their search for a new home.

Thanks for taking the time to visit and I look forward to chatting soon.

Sincerely,

HEATHER TILLEY

SALES REPRESENTATIVE
ROYAL LEPAGE OAKVILLE REAL ESTATE SERVICES LIMITED. BROKERAGE
OAKVILLE, ONTARIO. CANADA

In today's competitive housing market, timing - AND a savvy real estate agent - can make the difference between buying a house; or buying your Dream Home. Many of the area's best homes and deals, in the very best locations, are sold before they are ever advertised - and well before they can be listed on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). To beat other buyers to the hottest homes for sale, you owe it to yourself to contact me for your real estate needs in OAKVILLE, BURLINGTON, MISSISSAUGA and for Luxury Toronto homes. A few of the questions that I will be asking you are also locate here on my New Listings Notifier website form.

If you, or someone you know, own real estate and are thinking of selling - I would be happy to provide you with a FREE Home Evaluation. Through attention to detail, market knowledge and salesmanship, I will sell your home quickly and for the most money that our market can get.

To give you just a quick online guided tour of Oakville Real Estate - Oakville has evolved from the Lake Ontario waterfront northward. Original cottages with large lots on the waterfront in SouthWest, Central and Old Oakville have by-in-large been replaced by luxury properties and the town's main shopping throughway on Lakeshore Drive.

Through the 1950s, 60s, and even 70s, new home developments continued north from the water through Bronte, West Oakville, and Morrison on into the QEW highway. A housing boom in the 1980s brought new home development north of the QEW highway to PGA-made-famous Glen Abbey, College Park, and Falgarwood and East to Ford Drive, and Sherwood Heights - and this development continued throughout the 1990s. In the 21st Century, new housing developments grew up in West Oak Trails, River Oaks, Wedgewood Creek and Weston Park.

Oakville has recently been forced by the province to approve construction of new home development north of Hwy 5 (Dundas Street) and those new home (the only in the south-west GTA) is slated to begin after 2010.

 In Burlington, a similar suburb development pattern went on, but most land marked for development finished construction before the year 2005. Mississauga built 2-story, 1600 sq ft to 3000 square foot homes throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s north of the QEW and Hwy 403 by the tens of thousands - in a effort to keep pace with Toronto's exploding population - until mile after mile of suburb are virtually identical as far as the eye can see. But older subdivisions to the south, like in Miniola and Lorne Park and Clarkson, showcase stunningly beautiful luxury homes on large lots as the renovation or replacement of of older homes on premium lots is widespread. South Mississauga, similar to Old Burlington and South Oakville - makes for a beautiful Sunday afternoon drive past mile after mile of amazing estate properties. I've only seen road tours in Conneticut and Bar Harbour, Maine - which rival our Lakeshore Road for "most luxury homes per mile" honours.

Those that work in Toronto and who choose to live within the City, enjoy lower commuting times - but also pay a premium in home costs and enjoy the pros and cons of population density, transit, health care and premier entertainment attractions that  are more hallmarks of Toronto. Commuters get more value for their housing dollar the farther they shop away from downtown Toronto.