by Mark Hannah | Dec 3, 2019 | Columnists, Featured
Entering the housing market in Vancouver is, in a word, expensive. Not only do potential homebuyers face high costs of properties, they are also increasingly met with the twin barriers of high interest rates and challenging mortgage stress test levels. As a result,...
by Jeff Stern | Dec 2, 2019 | Columnists, Featured
Tell me if this sounds strange to you. In many professional industries, such as financial planning or insurance sales, the consultant does not simply dash off into the fray after training. They become apprentices, practicing in real time with real clients under the...
by Penelope Graham | Nov 26, 2019 | Guest Columns
That average rent costs are rapidly rising in many of Canada’s largest urban centres isn’t a new narrative. As the cost of ownership housing also steadily increases, more would-be real estate purchasers are lingering in the rental market for longer; in fact, according...
by MarkWeisleder | Nov 25, 2019 | Columnists
The long-awaited changes to the real estate agent and brokerage community in Ontario just had its initial release, mostly to positive reviews from the industry. The draft bill to change the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act, 2002 has not yet been approved and...
by Jeffrey Wagman | Nov 21, 2019 | Columnists
Real estate brokerages have changed drastically in the last 30 years. It went from agents being “employees” of the brokerage and enjoying the camaraderie of an office because that’s where all the information was and distributed, to a “cloud” mentality where agents get...
by William Molls | Nov 15, 2019 | Featured, Publisher's Page
Last year, the City of Toronto opened a respite centre for people who are homeless in my neighbourhood. This news came in tandem with the destruction of a “tent city” under the nearby Gardiner Expressway – a space that is being reclaimed as the trendy Bentway for the...
