Housing Affordability

May 17, 2024

Making Electrical Upgrades to Your Home-For Safety or Better Saleability

With summer around the corner, a milder-than-expected winter behind us, and a warmer-than-expected spring on its last legs, many of you might be considering renovating your property to take advantage of the impending upswing in the real estate market in the coming months.

Summer is typically peak time …

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May 10, 2024

Good Fences Make Great Home Sales

With summer around the corner, and a milder-than-expected winter behind us, many of you might be considering sprucing up your property to take advantage of the impending upswing in the real estate market in the coming months.

Summer is typically peak time for home buying and selling, but …

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May 3, 2024

Sunny Side Up: How To Market A Home With A Backyard Pool

With summer around the corner and a milder-than-expected winter behind us, many of you might be considering sprucing up your property to take advantage of the impending upswing in the real estate market in the coming months.

Summer is typically peak time for home buying and selling, but …

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April 26, 2024

Climate Change and Housing: Channeling Sustainability into Home Ownership

Among socio-economic and other factors, the undeniable reality, and various manifestations of the climate crisis, continue to have significant implications for the future of housing everywhere, including in Canada.

Adapting housing construction to meet resilience standards that help combat the wide-ranging impacts of extreme weather events, or retrofitting …

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April 19, 2024

Key Takeaways From the Federal Budget 2024

As expected, multiple measures to address Canada’s housing affordability and housing shortage crisis figured prominently among the raft of announcements made by the federal government in its annual budget presentation on Tuesday. As a potential home buyer or seller, many of these measures could benefit you in the months …

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March 15, 2024

Buying a Home? Expect To Pay These Closing Costs

Deciding to become a homeowner is one of the biggest expenses an individual or a family can undertake during their lifetime. That said, housing affordability and high borrowing costs continue to be the top concerns for prospective home buyers. And even if you have managed to save up for …

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March 8, 2024

Get A Home Appraisal To Improve You Home's Sales Prospects

As home buying and selling activity picks up across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and if you are seriously considering buying or selling this year, you might want to add getting a home appraisal to your checklist.

In this week’s blog post, we will focus on Home Appraisals …

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March 1, 2024

Home Ownership in Canada-Housing For A Greener Future

Spring is around the corner—a breezy harbinger of wet weather, new blooms, and increased housing activity! With the GTA housing market expected to modestly rebound this year, now is the time to start planning those long-delayed renovations to spruce up your property for prospective buyers or just to boost …

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Feb. 23, 2024

TRREB's 2024 Market Outlook Offers Insights Into The Year Ahead

We are already more than halfway through the end of the first quarter of 2024, and housing activity in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is picking up at a faster-than-expected rate, outpacing most market predictions released last year and earlier this year.

The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board …

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Feb. 16, 2024

Home Ownership in Canada-The Different Property Taxes You Have To Pay

Buying real estate in Canada, whether it is a home, land, or commercial property has become an increasingly expensive undertaking. While housing affordability concerns, higher interest rates, and an overall economic slowdown are significant contributing factors, burgeoning housing prices across Canada are also directly correlated to the spike in …

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