Sault Ste. Marie
Steel-town grit and a riverfront that glows. When the canal lock opened here in 1895 it was the longest in the world and the first to run on electricity. About 72,000 people now call the Soo home.
46.5136° N — 84.3458° WLake Superior · Algoma, Ontario
Home is NORTH.
Joanne Kovich & Jason Sproule are JTEAM — the husband-and-wife duo at Century 21 Choice Realty, selling Sault Ste. Marie and the Algoma District for more than a decade.
Scroll to fly north(01) The Duo
Two people.
One phone that always gets answered. More than ten years of handing over keys —
from the St. Marys River
to the shores of Lake Superior.
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J/01Joanne
Kovich
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J/02Jason
Sproule
Two J’s. One team. That’s the whole name.
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Committed & reliable
Husband and wife, business partners, one standard. When you hire JTEAM you get both of us — not a hand-off.
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Service above all
“If you call, we’ll answer. Always.” It’s not a slogan. It’s how a decade of referrals got built.
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Cutting-edge tools
Cinematic video, drone, 3D tours and data-driven pricing — big-city marketing for Northern Ontario homes.
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Every kind of client
First-time buyers in Korah. Multi-million-dollar investors downtown. Cottagers on Superior. Same care, every time.
(02) The Territory
Algoma,
in six stops.
Keep scrolling to fly it — from the rapids at the Soo, up Superior’s shore, into the highlands and east along the North Channel.
≈ 140 km · 6 stops · 1 team
And every road
in between.
Batchawana Bay
Sand beaches on the world’s largest freshwater lake. Four-season lakefront, classic cottages and Pancake Bay next door. This is where the Soo goes on summer weekends.
Searchmont
Up in the Algoma highlands: river lots on the Goulais, hobby farms, hunt camps and ski-in winter weekends at Searchmont Resort.
Laird & Echo Bay
Hay fields, real acreage and room for horses, all about 25 minutes from the city. Country living without giving up the commute.
Bruce Mines
A copper town since the 1840s, now a marina village on Lake Huron’s North Channel. Turquoise shallows, island views and small-town prices.
Iron Bridge & Blind River
The Mississagi River, a North Channel marina and some of the best value on the Lake Huron shore. Mornings like this come free with the deed.
(03) One house, four seasons
Buying in the North means buying all four.
We sell homes for every one of them.
Summer
Nearly sixteen hours of June daylight. Water clear enough to count the stones.
JTEAM tipBuying waterfront? We walk the shoreline with you and check the setbacks, the septic and the road access before you fall for the view.
Fall
Late September, the highlands catch fire and the Agawa train sells out.
JTEAM tipFall quietly favours buyers: motivated sellers, less competition and the keys in your hand before the first snow.
Winter
Lake-effect snow, Searchmont powder, skating the waterfront at Bon Soo.
JTEAM tipWe check what winter tests: furnace age, insulation, roof load, the driveway, and who plows the road.
Spring
Ice-out on the bays. The river runs fast, and the market wakes up with it.
JTEAM tipSelling? Prep with us in March so you can list the week the snow disappears, when the most buyers are looking.
(04) Buy · Sell · Invest
Three
ways
in.
Whichever door you’re coming through, there are two of us holding it open.
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Buyers
Find the one before the rest of the market does.
- Street-by-street pricing from people who live here
- Winter-ready due diligence: wells, septics, furnaces, roofs
- Waterfront, cottage and rural acreage know-how
- Moving to the Soo? Live video walk-throughs from anywhere
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Sellers
Make the whole city want it.
- Cinematic photography, video and drone on every listing
- Pricing built from real local comparables, not guesses
- Century 21 reach plus our own social and YouTube audience
- Every buyer call answered, so no lead goes cold
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Investors
Steel-town fundamentals. Northern upside.
- Duplexes, triplexes and mixed-use downtown
- Rent rolls, cap rates and the honest numbers
- Steady student demand from Algoma University and Sault College
- Portfolio strategy for multi-property buyers
1918 — Algoma Central Railway, northbound
They cameto paint it.
The Group of Seven rode a boxcar up the Algoma Central to paint these hills. Your weekend is 183 km up the same line.
(05) Field Notes
Living here,
by people who do.
How locals do Bon Soo
Every February the waterfront becomes one of Canada’s biggest winter carnivals. Where to skate, what to eat, and the events locals never miss.
The Hub Trail, house by house
A paved loop that ties the whole city together. These are the streets where you can walk out your front door and be on it in two minutes.
Agawa Canyon, done right
When the colours actually peak, which side of the train to sit on, and the lookout stairs worth every step.
We know the Soo
the way the river does.
- 0+Years as a team
- 0Agents. One answer.
- 0Regions on this tour
- AlwaysWhen you call
(06) It’s never too early to connect