The Great Estate Sale has been in operation for over 20 years specializing in Estate and Content Sales; the resale of household goods and furnishings. Most recently, The Great Estate Sale has expanded its estate and content sale services in response to the needs of our aging population, people combining households and individuals involved in downsizing their place of residence to smaller accommodations.

The Great Estate Sale provides a variety of professional residential liquidation services. Our estate sale and liquidation company will come into your home to sort, clear, appraise, price, stage and market your home’s contents. We provide reliable turnkey estate sale service that is efficient and highly effective. The Great Estate Sale can liquidate your parent’s estate or family inheritance. We can help you achieve quick cash for your collectibles, antiques or home furnishings. We can help you when it is time to down-sizing to a smaller home by selling your unwanted furnishings. Our goal is to obtain top dollar for your estate sale, household contents or estate liquidation and we will make certain that the entire process is stress-free. We have successfully managed hundreds of estate and content sales in the Greater Toronto area. Our solid reputation as a leading Toronto estate sale company has been built over the years by delivering top-notch service to our many satisfied customers. Call or email to learn more about all of our professional residential liquidation services. We are happy to provide a complimentary initial consultation.

Offering a wide range of professional home content liquidation services, The Great Estate Sale focuses on providing our customers with the best in personal service to assist them in moving, downsizing, consolidating estates and more.  We do all the work running a two-day, weekend sale for a hassle-free move or estate clean-out.  Our estate sale and moving sale services include setting up, organizing, pricing, providing all supplies, advertising, clean up and more. We also have a huge client base that receives timely email invitations with information about all of our upcoming estate and content sales, giving your content or estate sale the exposure that it deserves. As an experienced Ontario home contents specialist, we have assisted hundreds of satisfied customers and pleased to provide references.

Sign up today to be on our exclusive estate sale and content sale mail list. We will send you timely and informative Toronto content sale announcements and Toronto estate sale updates on all of our upcoming content sales in Toronto and the surrounding area. This service is complimentary and allows estate sale buyers, content sale shoppers, antique buyers, collectors and bargain hunters the opportunity to plan ahead so that they can attend all of the upcoming estate and content sales that are of interest to them. Toronto content shopping has never been easier. We give you the location of the sale and an idea of what you may expect to find at the sale, with a description and pictures of some of the items for sale. In this way, you don’t have to drive all over the city searching for content sales that may or may not have what you are looking for. You can plan your Toronto estate sale shopping weekend and attend just the estate sales that are of interest to you or the ones that are convenient for you.

The Great Estate Sale offers a free listing service for those wishing to advertise upcoming Toronto garage sales and Toronto yard sales. Simply fill in the form on the Garage & Yard Sales page and your garage sale or yard sale in Toronto will be listed on our website free of charge. As well, The Great Estate Sale invites you to take advantage of our free classified page for Classic Finds and Antiques for sale in Toronto and area. Again simply go to the Classic Finds page of our website and enter the information about the antique or collectable that you wish to sell. This is a free service, compliments of The Great Estate Sale. As all the antiques, furniture and collectables featured on our free classified page are described, listed and sold independent of The Great Estate Sale; we cannot accept any responsibility for the items listed.

There comes a time in most everyone’s life when they realize it is time to downsize. Whether this is a decision that you are happy to make or one that you have trouble coming to terms with, for most downsizing is a fact of life. Maybe you are moving from a large family home to a small bungalow or condominium apartment. Maybe you have reached an age where moving to a retirement residence with a single room makes sense. The fact of the matter is, when you downsize your home you will be faced with some work to do and decisions to make. For many, moving the contents of your home is stressful enough. This stress is compounded when you are forced to whittle down into a manageable and moveable collection your most treasured possessions. Hard decisions must be made about what to do with prize possessions and family heirlooms that you no longer have room for. Downsizing is a time fraught with emotion. As well, physical and financial stresses can add to the emotional trauma for downsizing your home.

Ensure your Toronto home move or downsize runs as smoothly as possible with the complete estate sale and house content services of The Great Estate Sale. We will help you sort through your Toronto home contents or the contents of an estate in your charge, so that you can easily select those items that you wish to retain and those that you would like to sell for cash. Selling unwanted furniture, household goods, art and antiques, can streamline your move and make it much less aggravating. Why pay a moving company to transport those items that you no longer want or no longer have a use for. Keeping unwanted household goods also means finding a place to keep them. Bear in mind that today’s condominium apartments offer much less space. If you have too much stuff, you may be faced with having to locate and pay for offsite storage. This is something no one wants to face on moving day- too much stuff and no place to put it. With a little careful planning and the help of the house content experts at The Great Estate Sale, this unfortunate scenario can be avoided.

Let’s face it, down-sizing a home, holding a contents sale or disposing of an estate requires a lot of hard work, if the estate sale or content sale is to be a success. A great many hours must be devoted to carefully plan and execute a profitable estate sale. Before a sale, content articles that are to be sold should be itemized, cleaned and repaired if necessary, then displayed to their best advantage. Often additional display tables and/or racks need to be set up. Sometimes furniture will need to be moved to accommodate display tables. All articles to be sold should be marked with a price. When holding your own content or estate sale without the help of a professional estate sale company, it will probably be necessary to spend numerous hours researching the true market value of many of the content sale articles that you wish to sell. If you have antiques, valuable collections or collectables, you may find that it is best to have these items professionally appraised, which requires more of your time and is an additional cost.

Pricing is one of the most difficult aspects of preparing for an estate or content sale and possibly one of the most important factors in achieving the best possible outcome; a smooth content sale and maximum profit. In order to achieve optimum results, where all sale items are liquidated, with the seller receiving top dollar, articles must be priced right. Coming up with a price for each object can be a daunting task. Correct pricing is critical to the success of any estate sale. Price an article too high and it will not sell. Price an article too low and it is money out of your own pocket. When you entrust your Toronto content sale or Toronto estate sale to The Great Estate Sale, you can feel confident that with our many years of estate sale experience we know how to price each article to obtain the most money and to sell quickly.

That old porcelain urn you found in your great aunt's attic may be an item of great value. It could be a rare specimen worth thousands at auction. It could just as easily be a very ordinary, mass-produced piece of kitsch that you would be lucky to get a couple of dollars for at a garage sale, yard sale or content sale. Due to popular television programs that assess the value of household goods, antiques and collectables, like The Antiques Roadshow and Pawn Stars, many more people are taking a second look at stuff that, perhaps a few years ago, they might have just tossed into a recycling bin or taken to the local charity thrift shop. We have all watched in amazement as the art appraiser or antique expert informs the owner of a very unremarkable-looking object that it is a rare and priceless treasure. How do you determine whether a particular piece of furniture, art or antique is treasure or trash? Naturally, there are ways to find out.

To determine the value yourself of items such as antiques, art, rare coins, rare stamps and jewelry, you will need to learn more about that item. Read books, magazines and visit the stores that sell these items. By example, if it is a piece of furniture that you are pricing to sell, visit furniture stores, secondhand stores, consignment stores and furniture resale stores to look at how similar pieces of used furniture are priced. Of course, with our vast experience of pricing and selling during the course of literally thousands of successful estate sales and content sales, the experts at The Great Estate Sale will already know the correct price to charge. It is all part of our Toronto estate sale service.

Obviously, selling treasured antiques and items of value without the help of an experienced estate sale company can be tricky and time consuming. Sometimes even after extensive research on your own, it may be necessary to get professional help for a true evaluation. To be certain of an item’s value, you may need to hire an experienced antique expert or a qualified antique appraiser to be sure that you have a one-in-a-million treasure and not a worthless trinket. But finding such a professional appraiser or qualified antique expert may not be easy or cheap. To eliminate all the running around and the guesswork associated with pricing and selling fine furniture, antiques, collections, rare items and household goods of value, let the number one Toronto estate sale company do all the work for you.

Estate sales and content sales can be a treasure trove for anyone looking to add to their collection. If you are liquidating the contents of a home or an estate, stop to consider before you start throwing things away that there might be someone out there that would love Aunt Martha’s silver spoon collection and pay good money for it. Remarkably, just about any item that you can imagine is considered a collectable to someone. For many people, searching for the perfect item to add to a “prized” collection is a fun and rewarding hobby. Often it is “the thrill of the chase” that gives the most pleasure to these hobbyists.

From salt shakers in the shape of pigs to Pez dispensers, a collectible is often an object that is abundant and affordable, as opposed to fine art and fine antiques. A collectable or collectible is not necessarily old. It can be inexpensive, but it can also be very valuable as well. For example, years ago vintage Coca Cola memorabilia was relatively inexpensive to collect. Today, authentic Coke memorabilia can be very expensive with collectors paying top dollar for the rarest pieces. Some of the earliest collectables, like baseball cards and small figures, were included in as incentives with other products. Popular toys from the 60s, 70s, and 80s like Barbie dolls, Tonka Toys and Hot Wheels, were sometimes purchased new by collectors and kept in their original boxes.