Duncan Pollock, Exclusive Buyer Broker and Market Value Appraiser

The background that helps me serve potential purchasers of property

Duncan Pollock
Broker of Record
Duncan Pollock Real Estate Broker, Brokerage
427 Gate Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ontario, Canada L0S 1J0
Tel: (905) 468-3154
Cellular: (905) 704-9037
Fax: (905) 468-3812
e-mail: duncanpollock@sympatico.ca
Market Value Appraiser logo

Important: Please note that I changed my e-mail address with effect from November 3 2007.
(If you tried sending any message to the old address (dsp.pru@sympatico.ca) from October 29th that year onwards, it will NOT have reached me and, if you don't mind, needs to be resent to duncanpollock@sympatico.ca )

Who am I?

Duncan Stuart Pollock
Real Estate Broker
Market Value Appraiser -- Residential
Operating as sole proprietor, trading as
Duncan Pollock Real Estate Broker,
and working exclusively as a Buyer Agent
Street address: 427 Gate Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Postal address: P.O.Box 120, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0
Regular phone: (905) 468-3154
(24 hours/day with Call Answering support)
Cellular phone: (905) 704-9037
(24 hours/day with Voice Mail support)
e-mail address: duncanpollock@sympatico.ca
web site: http://www.duncanpollock.com

Resident of Niagara-on-the-Lake since 1976
Now widowed after a wonderful 58 year marriage to a dearly beloved wife
Presently being fussed over and managed (as I always was by their mother) by three
caring daughters, one at home with me, the other two married and living in Toronto.
Three grandchildren, now decidedly grown up
Four terrific great grandchildren, being spoiled by everyone as they deserve to be
One recently acquired and thoroughly ruined Himalayan cat

Emigrated to Canada 1958
Extensive business background in both U.K. and Canada,
including diversified experience in accountancy, manufacturing, and retail/direct sales,
mainly employed in supervisory and managerial positions.
15 years teaching various Management courses for Sheridan Community College,
Oakville, and other adult education institutes.
Graduate of British Institute of Management 1950

Began real estate career with Kevan O'Connor, Niagara-on-the-Lake, November 1988
Employed with Peter Sukkau Realty from August 1990 through June 2000
Transferred to Royal LePage July 2000 when Sukkau office closed down
Opened own sole proprietorship office July 2002, acting
as an Exclusive Buyer Broker (i.e. working for buyers only)
Active member of St.Catharines Real Estate Board, including
participation in several committees.
Listed, sold, and appraised a wide range of residential and
commercial properties in most areas of the Niagara Peninsula.
Well thought of by colleagues in the industry
Excellent reputation with clients, known for close attention to detail and
honest, sincere desire to meet individual needs.

Back to the beginning
Getting the most house for your money
What a Buyer Agent does
The Buyer Agency Agreement

Who am I?
Additional information
Finding a home anywhere, arranging a mortgage, the ins and outs of home inspection, legal considerations and closing costs, regional and municipal facts and figures, commercial real estate, etc.
Of this, that, and the other ...
A collection of websites I've run across at various times. Most are real estate related. A few are not.
However, they all contain information you may find interesting and helpful.

Any questions? Something not clear? Need to know more? Just click here to e-mail me.

You can add yourself to my mailing list if you wish.
I send a newsletter out each month that deals with a variety of issues related to the process of buying property.
There's nothing hard sell involved, I can assure you.
Rather, the idea is to share my thoughts with you about how I believe buyers can be better served by the real estate industry.
And to get a sense of the contents, you can take a look at some of my previous mailings by clicking here.

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Note: If you have an interest in buying or leasing industrial, commercial, or investment property, you may find it useful to browse an alternative website that I was recently encouraged to create. It explains my role in offering exclusive buyer representation for purchasers and lessees of ICI properties and deals with a number of factors that call for attention when you're involved with the non-residential real estate market.
It also provides links to several databases of currently available broker and private listings of industrial, commercial, and investment properties. Together, they cover an extensive range of property types and locations throughout North America and in different countries around the world.
You'll find the site at http://www.iciniagara.com and you can use its pages to directly e-mail me for complete details and/or to arrange a viewing of any listing that appeals to you.

Additional search engine and directory listings include
Google / Sympatico / Yahoo / Open Directory Project
Internet Directory of Real Estate Professionals
SearchSight Directory / Allthelink Directory / Business Plexus Directory
Canada Real Estate Directory / Universal Real Estate Directory
City Wide Pages St. Catharines / Proudly Canadian Business Directory
Premier Directory / SeekOn/Niagara-on-the-Lake

And now for something entirely different ...

It helps to have a sense of humour if you're in the real estate business -- and if you're involved in developing and maintaining a website.
As a complete change from all you've seen/read so far, you can, if you wish, take a look at My In Tray.

Acknowledgements, permission, and disclaimer

A number of the photos used in this website are the copyright (and used with the permission) of WebGraphicsZone.com and iStockPhoto.com.

The copyright to this web site as a whole is claimed and retained by me as its author, but permission is hereby granted for you to print out and/or distribute the site in its entirety or in part(s), provided that due acknowledgement of my authorship is included.

The opinions expressed in this web site are primarily mine and, to a large degree, reflect conditions in the Niagara Peninsula -- at least as I see them -- rather than elsewhere. They do not, however, necessarily agree with the views held by some of my colleagues in the real estate industry.

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(Last updated September 2009)