Double-Ending in Ontario Real Estate: A Primer GREATER TORONTO – Double-ending has been a trending term in recent months, perhaps triggered by a recent CBC Marketplace episode that caught several GTA real estate sales…
Ontario to Double LTT Refund for First-Time Buyers TORONTO – As home prices continue to escalate across Greater Toronto and beyond, aspiring home buyers may find some relief in a newly-proposed increase to…
GTA Condos Selling Despite Fewer Listings: TREB GREATER TORONTO – The scarcity of inventory that has long characterized the GTA’s detached real estate market may have finally caught up to its condos,…
Hot Real Estate Market Driving Renovation Boom: CMHC OTTAWA – With Greater Toronto’s resale real estate market recording higher-than-ever average prices, Ontario’s home renovation market has continued to expand at an impressive pace…
Finance Canada Unveils New Measures to Protect Home Buyers OTTAWA – Just eight months after announcing a higher minimum down payment for properties with an asking price of more than $500,000, Finance Minister Bill…
TREB Reports Broken Home Price Record in August GREATER TORONTO – In a month where the number of available listings in Toronto was scarce – even compared to the previous month’s below-average total…
“More Room to Accelerate” in GTA Real Estate: TD Forecasts for a “modest correction” in Greater Vancouver’s real estate market are unlikely to be echoed here in Ontario’s capital, according to a new report…
“Gen Y” Canadians Focused on Home Ownership: OREA TORONTO – South of the border, much analysis has been done on the home ownership aspirations of “Generation Y” (also known as “millennials”) – a…
Confidence in Ontario Real Estate Market Growing: OREA TORONTO – Since Ipsos and the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA)’s last Home Ownership Index poll six months ago, Ontario residents’ outlook on real estate…
MPAC Assessments: A 2016 Primer GREATER TORONTO – With Halton residents’ notices having been mailed out on June 27, most homeowners in the GTA should already have received their 2016…