Real Estate

Renters are the least happy with their dwellings and feel pessimistic about ever being able to afford a home, says a recently released survey by Zoocasa. The online real estate brokerage polled over 1,000 Canadians at … Read More

Prairie housing prices continue to decline as housing prices in both larger cities like Toronto and Vancouver, along with smaller markets like Ottawa and Montreal, rise. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) reports that the MLS … Read More

The City of Toronto isn’t just one of the most expensive places to buy a home in Ontario, it also has some of the highest closing costs, especially land transfer tax. The Province of Ontario itself … Read More

Sales in the Greater Toronto Area picked up rapidly over the last five months and are now outstripping new listings, leading to a tighter housing market in October and the likely for the months to come. … Read More

There’s no doubt about it — Ontario is an expensive place to buy real estate. The province has a robust and diverse economic landscape, its southern portions have relatively mild weather and it’s extremely multicultural, which … Read More

Zoocasa found that Alberta has no affordable homes for sale for single-income households, according to research published this September. “From the oil fields of Fort McMurray to Drumheller’s badlands, Alberta’s landscape is as diverse as can … Read More

Over $5 billion worth of residential property was sold in the Greater Toronto Area this September, according to the Toronto real estate Board, up 4 per cent from September 2017. The total dollar volume of sales … Read More

Over the past decade, the Canadian government has implemented several mortgage rule changes aimed at tempering housing demand and safeguarding home buyers from over-extending themselves. Each time, the respective measures are meant to cool ever-increasing home … Read More

Do you own a home and are looking for a way to pay off your mortgage faster? With a decrease in available houses in urban areas and an increase in costs, people are looking for alternative … Read More

Calgary is one major city in Canada where wages and housing prices actually line up. Unlike Toronto and Vancouver, where home prices have far surpassed the median income of residents in those cities, Calgary real estate … Read More