Let’s face it, considering the record real estate markets we’ve enjoyed in Markham, York Region and across the GTA, if you’re a home or condo owner thinking about selling, or you’re looking to buy a home, you’ve probably kept a close watch on the real estate headlines. That’s a good thing. The more you read…
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….
On April 20th, the Ontario government introduced new legislation in an effort to ensure that the red-hot housing market isn’t being further fuelled by speculators, non-residents and questionable real estate transaction practices. In addition to the new real estate rules, legislation was also introduced to extend rent controls, standardize rental leases and stimulate the construction…
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, let’s just take care of the usual stuff. The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) reported yet another month of soaring real estate figures in March. Compared to a year ago, both housing prices and numbers of housing units sold increased significantly across the GTA. The average price for existing homes of all types increased…
The arrival of spring brings more than warmer temperatures and budding flowers. May and June are typically the busiest months for residential real estate transactions, and the action begins to heat up in March and April. If you are planning to buy a home for the first time this year, you shouldn’t let the busy…