In a recent post, we looked at the challenges that millennials face to buy a home in the hot Toronto and GTA real estate market; challenges that their parents didn’t have, including record-high student debt and the availability of fewer full-time jobs. But we also discovered that millennials enjoy a couple advantages in the real…
First, while it might sound like we’re repeating ourselves, residential real estate prices and sales in Markham, Toronto and York Region once again set a new record in April, 2016. For the record, here are some of the numbers for April: 12,085 – the number of existing (not newly built) homes of all types sold…
If you have been been following the development of Downtown Markham, you would have noticed the surge of residential condominium construction in the area. A cornerstone of the Smart Growth strategy used to plan Downtown Markham includes high density housing, including condominium buildings and townhouses. Considering that the city’s housing was predominantly single family homes…