It’ll probably be the largest purchase you’ll ever make. It’s an incredibly complicated purchase involving lawyers, mortgage advisors, realtors, insurance agents, home inspectors and so much more. Even so, when purchasing a home, there are many basic questions that buyers have, especially first-timers, that they ask too late or that they don’t ask at all….
If real estate market ‘gurus’, experts and journalists don’t have anything to say, then what makes them an authority on the subject? That’s why most of them make sure they have lots to say on just about every real estate topic. And there’s been no hotter subject in real estate over the past few years…
If the headlines are to be believed, the GTA will be abandoned by millennials before long if residential real estate doesn’t become more affordable. Millennials are generally considered to be those people born between 1980 and 2000 (though you can find lots of variations on the exact dates). With the eldest of them in their…
In a recent post, we talked about real estate headline fatigue, or the recent regular barrage of “record real estate” headlines. Not that we’re complaining! The great headlines are the sign of a healthy residential real estate market in Markham and across the GTA. However, the recent release of August’s home sales figures by the…
If you’ve bought or sold a home in Markham, or anywhere in Ontario, you’ll be familiar with Ontario’s provincial land transfer tax (LTT). It’s a tax on the price of a real estate transaction payable by the buyer. Charged at different rates for different real estate values, from .5% up to $55,000 to 2% above…
You may not know it, but you might be suffering real estate headline fatigue. Despite the fact that it’s good news for real estate markets, you’ve probably stopped reading articles with headlines like “Record House Prices in Toronto” or “New High for Home Sales”. But there was one recent ‘real estate record’ headline in the…