How it Works: Buy Confidently With HomeOptima

Our Proven 7-Step Home Buying Process

We want you to feel supported in the home buying process and confident in your purchase decision. That’s why we’ve developed a tried-and-true buying strategy that brings you right into the process.

Step 1

FREE Consultation

We come to you and get to the heart of all home buying requirements (from home features to ideal locations...all the way down to specifics, such as commute times or school districts) and discuss budgets to get a full picture of your individual needs.

Step 2

Mortgage Pre-Approval

HomeOptima works with a Top 5 mortgage broker that can provide pre-approval within 48 hours. This will help you understand your budget and help us focus on what to look for (and where).

Step 3

Zeroing In on Options

We’ll explain the best type of home(s) and neighbourhood(s) that fit your needs and budget. Then, we’ll use our proprietary home matchmaker tool and experienced market knowledge to pull specific options.

Step 4

The Discovery Process

An agent will book a few options in a few different places that fit your requirements. This helps us set a baseline and learn from your feedback in order to refine your requirements and validate your preferences.

Step 5

Showing and Tracking

As we book viewings, every home seen will be rated, recorded, and shared in one central portal so that you can see, in one place, what you say, what you liked, if you put in an offer, and if it’s still available. You will be notified of offers and selling status of every viewed property instantaneously.

Step 6

Setting Up the Offer

Once you’ve found a property you like, we’ll perform a market analysis and leverage our Offer Planning Tool to negotiate a fair offer, ensuring you get the best price and under the best possible terms. You will never overpay for a property!

Step 7

Closing Support/Move-in Services

We don’t just disappear once an offer is accepted. HomeOptima is there for you right up until moving day, offering help with home inspections, moving assistance, and more! We get your new home professionally cleaned for free before you move in.

How long does it take to buy a home in the GTA?

Buying a home, no matter where you are, can move very quickly or very slowly. Some clients know exactly what they want, and are lucky enough to spot their dream home right away. Others take more time and like to explore more neighbourhoods or are willing to wait to see what opens up over time. When you meet with us, we’ll discuss what your expectations and needs are and develop a personalized homebuying strategy that will help you find your home according to your flexibility or timelines. Either way, the goal isn’t to rush the process. Rather, we want to make sure you find a place you’ll love for years to come, and we’re willing to put in the time and effort to make that happen - on your terms.

Getting pre-approved for a mortgage is the first step in your home-buying journey. By getting pre-approved for a mortgage is important as it helps you understand how much of a home you can afford. This pre-approval will help dictate what is available to you and where so that we can find a home within your budget that still ticks all the boxes in terms of expectations.

The more of a down payment you have, the better. That said, you don’t necessarily need to have 20% saved up in order to start searching for a home. Talk to us, and let’s understand together where you are and what you have to work with so that you can become a homeowner sooner rather than later!

The best way to keep track of all the homes you’re interested in - from those you’ve viewed to those you’d like to see - is to work with us! Our agents have a unique visualized tracking system that keeps you up to date on every home you are interested in. You’ll see when you’re scheduled to view a home, what day you saw past homes, and notes on what you liked/didn’t like so that you can have a running list of everything that’s going on at any given time.

It’s always a good idea to get a home inspection done. While it may be a bit of an up-front cost, a home inspector will alert you to any major issues that may become problematic down the line.

Buyers and Sellers Love Our Platform and End-to-End Realty Services

Highly recommended 👍

Thank you HomeOptima team for your help purchasing our dream home! With the marketing experience provided by Ashish and Ebtihal we managed to find the

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Mak Botros

Bought Feb 2022

Ashish is really a gentleman

Ashish is really a gentleman. He genuinely helped us in buying our dream house. The best part is when the housing market was going up he cracked us a

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Parag Sawant

Bought Feb 2022

Sold over asking in less than 24 hours from listing

Thanks to HomeOptima team, our property was sold over asking in less than 24 hours from listing. They have a professional and great team that walked m

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Sherry Was

Bought Jan 2022

Professional and true to their word

We listed our house with Ashish Saxena at Home Optima this fall. Ashish and his colleague, were professional and true to their word. They did an amaz

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Devinder Sahota

Bought Jan 2022

Bought second time with Ashish!

In 2019, Ashish and the Home Optima team helped my husband and I buy our first home in Canada. The process was so smooth and stress free that when it

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Zara Rizwan

Bought Jan 2022

What a excellent level of professionalism

The team was so helpful for helping us buy our new home from start to finish, from getting us connected to the right people to finding the beautiful h

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Natalia Grado

Bought Dec 2021

We sold for well over asking price

What a journey it was selling our home the team had such excellent marketing we had such an amazing turn out for our showings we sold for well over as

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Giancarlo Grado

Bought Aug 2021

We Bought and Sold with Homeoptima!

We had a really great experience with Home Optima’s very professional and smart Team. Ashish and Ebtehal have been with us through every phase of the

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Revati Pawar

Bought Aug 2021

The Knowledge, commitment and advanced Tech by Team Home Optima was unparalleled.

We worked with Ashish and Ebtehal (Team HomeOpitma) to buy a condo. We wanted easy accessibility to the Financial District and beaches via public tra

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Aditya Gurjar

Bought Jul 2021

Our place was sold in 8 days

The condo market was slow. When we hired HomeOptima, our main worry was not being able to sell the place quickly. To our surprise, our place was sold

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Prajakta Surudkar

Sold Jul 2021

Transparent and Honest

Ashish is very patient, knowledgeable, available all the time regardless of when we needed him to visit a house, transparent and honest and most impor

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Alwin Durairaj

Bought May 2021

He was incredibly patient with us.

Used Ashish and his team when buying a semi detached in the Don Mills neighbourhood. He was incredibly patient with us and showed us an incredible amo

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Joe Balasubramaniam

Bought Apr 2021

I would go to him again for any future needs in real estate.

We had a nice experience with Ashish throughout our home buying journey. He is very professional, patient and friendly. He listens to all our needs a

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Anand Pandiyaraj

Bought Mar 2021

we sold the house for a great price in 2 days.

We had a lovely experience with Ashish, as sellers, he put us at ease and managed everything with utmost dedication and involvement. His hard work pai

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Lasya Prakash

Sold Mar 2021

Overall experience with HomeOptima app and Ashish was superb

Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, ValueOur overall experience with HomeOptima app and Ashish was superb. Ashish works for you as if

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Pravin S

Bought Mar 2021

Highly recommend!

Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, ValueHave sold and bought homes with Homeoptima and both times the experience was first class! Hi

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Luisa Diana

Bought and Sold Feb 2021

I especially wanted to highlight his knowledge.

I had a very positive experience with HomeOptima. I was out searching for my first home and Asish made sure that he guided me in the entire process. H

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Saurav Kumar

Bought Jan 2021

The entire homeoptima team is very professional

Ashish has helped me buy my first house and has since become a friend and a trusted advisor for any real estate related advise and service. The entire

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Karan Bhatia

Nov 2020

Ashish truly cares about his clients

"Ashish Saxena from Home Optima is an amazing real estate agent and an even better person! Truly cares about his clients, very friendly and relatable!

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Jay and Amanda

Bought Nov 2020

Would not use anyone else!

From start to finish, Homeoptima made the selling of my home stress free, quick and productive! Would not use anyone else!

 

Julian Di Lorenzo

Sold August 2020

You are very professional.

Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, ValueAshish - You are very professional and did lot more than i ever expected from a realtor. I re

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Prashant

Bought July 2020

Working with Ashish from Home Optima is one of the best decision

Working with Ashish Saxena from Home Optima is one of the best decisions I have ever made. He was very detailed and organized with the information he

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Devon Fenton

Bought and Sold July 2020

Ashish's professional recommendation helped us make the best decision

Ashish Saxena was a fantastic agent to work with his years of experience was demonstrated when he prepared us with what to expect, when selling our co

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Candice De Souza

Bought and Sold July 2020

These guys are the best

If you want to to create a long lasting relationship which helps you throughout your life in any real estate decisions, these guys are the best.

 

Imroz Khan

Bought June 2020

One major quality is Ashish’s availability throughout the process

I recently worked with HomeOptima team for my first house and it was a great experience. Ashish is an amazing realtor, invest his time to guide you in

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Abhinav Garg

Bought May 2020

He is highly qualified, equipped with data analytics - tools and techniques.

Ashish Saxena is not a regular real estate agent.He is highly qualified, equipped with data analytics - tools and techniques.Ashish was actively invol

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Ash Juneja

Bought Jan 2020

Ashish is an amazing guy

Ashish is an amazing guy and a very good real estate agent. He is patient enough to consider all your requests and only shows properties that he think

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Krishna Rao

Bought Mar 2019

Great Job on Selling my unit on Glen Erin.

Great Job on Selling my unit on Glen Erin. It set a new level of pricing in the market

 

Ahmer Naushad

Bought April 2021

Process was so smooth and stress free

In 2019, Ashish and the Home Optima team helped my husband and I buy our first home in Canada. The process was so smooth and stress free that when it

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Zara Rizwan

Bought July 2019

I was amazed by the way he explained things about home purchase

I highly recommend Ashish and HomeOptima. Here is my house purchase experience.I and my wife planned to buy our first home in Mississauga last year an

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Sachin Singh

Bought Sep 2019

This was the second time we had the pleasure of working with Ashish!

This was the second time we had the pleasure of working with Ashish, we called on him again because we had such a good experience the first time. Our

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Nelson Da Ponte

Bought and Sold July 2019

We would have it NO other way!!!

To many real estate agents might seem like they have a straightforward job. In reality, each day can be as diverse as the people they represent. Ashis

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Chhanda Das

Bought July 2019

The level of service, support and customer commitment that I received were beyond all expectations!

I have just completed a home purchase with HomeOptima and Ashish Saxena. The level of service, support and customer commitment that I received were be

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Irina Gazetkina

Bought June 2019

He sold our place with 18 hours of listing.

We have had the pleasure in dealing with Ashish For two Real estate deals.He sold our place with 18 hours of listing.He is very professional and is

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Mohammed Musa

Bought May 2018 Sold March 2019

Ashish worked with us like a family member

Ashish worked with us like a family member, he is very patient. He was very efficient and his experience made him clearly understand the property that

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Manish Joshi

Bought March 2019

We look forward to dealing with him again.

We had a wonderful experience while working with Ashish Saxena and HomeOptima. He guided us very patiently through the entire home buying process, sho

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Gurpratap Randhawa

Bought Nov 2018

If you are first time home buyer this is definitely the right option

Best app in GTA for house search. It has some cool features plus awesome service by the team. We had very good experience because of their knowledgeab

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Rahul Mantri

Bought Oct 2018

Thank you Ashish!

You are very kind and special person. Thanks for thinking about us and be part of this special moment of our lives.

 

Carla & Miguel

Bought Sept 2018

Extremely Satisfied with the service.

Ashish works as per clients requirements and understandings. Has good knowledge in real estate and gives us in depth info which helps us in decision m

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Abhi & Sunita

Bought Sept 2018

I had a pleasant experience working with Ashish

I had a pleasant experience working with Ashish on a real estate deal. He provided genuine advise and feedback and made the whole home buying process

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Pravar Shrivastava

Bought Aug 2018

Friendly and honest

Friendly and honest professional opinion makes him a great realtor. Communication is his strength!

 

Meena & Rakesh

Bought Aug 2018

Extremely Satisfied with the Service

He is knowledgeable and understood our requirements well. He helped us throughout the home buying process.

 

Mahesh & Rajni

Bought Aug 2018

We would love to work with him in the future

Ashish is very patient, knowledgeable, available all the time regardless of when we needed him to visit a house, transparent and honest and most impor

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Alwin & Divya

Bought July 2018

Ashish works as per clients requirements and understandings

Ashish works as per clients requirements and understandings. Has good knowledge in real estate and gives us in depth info which helps us in decision m

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Abhishek Shetty

Bought June 2018

Extremely Satisfied with the service. Very happy with the Home Buying decision.

Ashish truly went above and beyond in helping us find a home in a tough market that is GTA! He is knowledgeable and a great asset during competitive s

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Prakalp & Richa

Bought Feb 2018

Very Satisfied with the Service. Extremely Happy with the Home Buying Decision!

Ashish is a very nice person, with great personality. He was really helpful and honest with us during our search. I recommend him to anyone who is loo

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Moe & Rand

Bought Jan 2018

Extremely Satisfied with the Service & Extremely Happy with the Home Buying Decision

As a new buyer we learned a lot things from Ashish. He provided us with great service and he is an excellent agent.

 

Manveer

Bought Jan 2018

Extremely Satisfied with the service. Extremely Happy with the Home Buying decision.

Ashish is very patient, knowledgeable, available all the time regardless of when we needed him to visit a house, transparent and honest and most impor

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Alwin & Divya

Sold 2018

Very Happy with the service. Very happy with the home buying decision.

He is very helpful and hardworking. He treated us like family and is an honest man.

 

Rafiu & Nora

Bought Dec 2017

I highly recommend Ashish

He was amazing to work with. Very friendly and informative. Found me the perfect home. I highly recommend Ashish.

 

Ashley

Bought Dec 2017

Ashish is always available for his client

Ashish is always available for his client. He an amazing agent and very honest .Definitely will go back to do business with him.

 

Terry & Stephanie

Bought Oct 2017

He an amazing agent and very honest

Ashish is always available for his client. He an amazing agent and very honest .Definitely will go back to do business with him

 

Terry Askari

Bought Sep 2017

Extremely Satisfied with the Service & Very Happy with the Home Buying Decision.

Ash, was great I had specific needs and budget and he helped make thing's work

 

Nelson

Bought July 2017

I love this app & the service provided to us!

l recommended them to dozens of friends!

 

Carlos & Cristina

Bought and Sold July 2017

Get results that you’ll love

New Neighbourhood Sold Price Record

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    Showing Requests
  • 13

    Offers Requests
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  • 22%

    Sold Over Asking

New Neighbourhood Sold Price Record

  • 70

    Showing Requests
  • 13

    Offers Requests
  • 3days

    Sold Home in
  • 22%

    Sold Over Asking

New Neighbourhood Sold Price Record

  • 70

    Showing Requests
  • 13

    Offers Requests
  • 3days

    Sold Home in
  • 22%

    Sold Over Asking

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