How To Prepare Your Home For Sale
When you are thinking about selling your house, usually your first question is “What do I need to do?” And it is easy to get wrapped up in all the things you don’t like about the house or the things your never …
Top Buyer Tips
Buying your next home can feel like an overwhelming task, especially if it’s your first real estate experience. As this will likely to be the largest financial transaction you will ever make, it is best to be prepared and do it right. …
12 Reasons to Love Living in Toronto
by Ellissa Glad When you tell people who have never been or lived in the city that you live in Toronto, usually they say, “oh, I could never live there, with all the traffic and concrete.” Toronto is so much more than …
Buying Through the Listing Agent: Dispelling the Myths
In this era of readily-available information driven by technology, it’s easy for people to overlook the benefits of using a proper buyer agent when making an offer to purchase a property. It used to be that selling privately was the popular method …
Is your Present Home Becoming a Burden? What’s Next?
By Laurie Miller In the family home, each room has a story to tell and memories seep from every nook and cranny, it is the centre of gravity. What happens when the maintenance and care of that home becomes a burden. If …
7 Signs Your Buying Strategy Isn’t Working
by Greg Parker For many of us, buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions we will ever make in our lifetimes. As most investors will agree, the success of a real estate investment is determined when you buy, …
How to Invest in the Toronto Real Estate Market
By Brian Reiser As we all probably know, real estate in the city of Toronto is expensive, and it is getting more and more expensive as time goes on. So, what is someone who is looking to invest in this market supposed …
Moving Up
What to consider before you move from a condo to a house Buying and selling can be expensive with land transfer taxes, legal fees, real estate commissions, utility set-up costs, moving costs and more to consider. If you are going to spend …
Purple Bricks Could Have You Seeing Red
By Greg Parker Discount offerings are not a new concept in real estate, but there has been a real resurgence of low-priced options in recent months. These upstarts claim to level the playing field, and put more money in sellers’ pockets. But …
Will the CMHC’s First Time Buyer Incentive help you buy a home?
The federal government wants to make home ownership more affordable for young people and to do that it’s introducing the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive (FTHBI) in September. The $1.25 billion program, announced as part of the March federal budget, involves the government …