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As the saying goes, good things come in small packages. In fact, this may be the mantra for many homebuyers in 2017, given the steady rise in real estate prices.…

A new survey suggests Canadians are dipping into their registered retirement savings plans like never before and the high cost of housing may be driving those decisions. The study released…

House prices in Canada’s hottest cities are soaring, (Including Orangeville and Dufferin county) but the pressure to buy a home remains. The result? Mortgage fraud is spiking. Most of the…

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) and the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) are fighting a City of Toronto proposal that would increase land transfer taxes on homebuyers. (This has…

The flurry of gift-shopping and overspending is finally over, leaving plenty of people with the dreaded holiday hangover. Just a few weeks ago, a CIBC poll showed that Canadians were…

Fixed mortgage rates have increased by about 0.40% in the last 8 weeks.   Today’s 5 year fixed rates are at around 2.89% and will could continue to go up in…

Canadians will ring in the new year with a number of tax changes that will affect the bottom line of federal and provincial governments. These changes will mean Canadians will…

Skyrocketing home prices dominated the headlines in 2016, and it's no surprise that housing unaffordability remains the news of the day as we wrap up the year. Affordability has hit…

Foreign buyers are leaving Vancouver en masse, instead heading to cities like Seattle and Toronto to invest in real estate, according to numbers provided to Global News from Chinese realty…

MLS data from the first two weeks of August revealed that only 3 home sales have transpired in Vancouver in that period, that’s a far cry from the 52 transactions…