More Than A Promise To Sell Your Home

For several years now I have been advocating that the Canadian real estate market was not behaving in correlation with the US market and that there was no bubble to burst here.  Gloom and doom reporters have been trying their best to falsely create this situation here in Canada, to no avail. I believe this reporter sums up the reality of the ...

A fairer property tax appeal system is expected with changes announced by the provincial government. The changes mean the onus of proof on property assessment appeals is reversed so that, when a property owner appeals an assessment, the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) would be required to prove the accuracy of the new assessment. ...

CIBC Work Markets released a report this week forecasting 100 bps of Bank of Canada rate increases by the end of next year, which would essentially take back most of the rate cuts we have seen this year. This has implications for potential borrowers who may be less willing to take on risk or a little stretched in their debt coverage ...

CIBC Work Markets released a report this week forecasting 100 bps of Bank of Canada rate increases by the end of next year, which would essentially take back most of the rate cuts we have seen this year. This has implications for potential borrowers who may be less willing to take on risk or a little stretched in their debt coverage ...

Some positive news from south of the border that may calm some of the unfounded fears of a real estate related crash that the Canadian media has been implanting in Canadian consumers for months now.    JEANNINE AVERSA and MARTIN CRUTSINGER Wednesday, May 07, 2008 WASHINGTON — The worst of the credit crisis may ...

Engine behind the country's housing boom has been increasingly leveraged first-time buyersTAVIA GRANT  Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Canada may not have the sizable subprime market of the U.S., but the engine behind the country's housing boom has been increasingly leveraged first-time buyers. Legions of first-timers are adding years of ...

 The Bank of Canada cut its benchmark interest rate on Tuesday by a half-percentage point to 3 percent, as expected, and signaled that further easing was required but suggested it might pause before cutting again.First time buyer's, those re-mortgaging and those still considering adding to their mortgage amounts will all feel some ease ...

[calendar:2008-04-20 2008-04-20] Hawthorne Village, Milton  -  We invite everyone to visit our open house at 819 Biggar Heights on April 20 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Property information

[calendar:2008-04-19 2008-04-19] Hawthorne Village, Milton  -  We invite everyone to visit our open house at 819 Biggar Heights on April 19 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Property information

Further to the local real estate market statistics posted here yesterday, a Royal LePage Real Estate Services' House Price Survey reports that home-price increases moderated in the first quarter, but remained solid due to a strong economy, high immigration levels, and relatively low interest rates. In Toronto, Canada's largest ...