by Jodi Gilmour | Dec 12, 2023 | Guest Columns
I was sitting on a toilet lid in a walkup in The Annex having my makeup retouched after lunch when my friend, Toronto makeup artist Melanie Sleep, looked at me sideways. “You haven’t touched your latte,” she noted, referencing the pumpkin spice growing tepid on the...
by Daniel Foch | Dec 6, 2023 | Boards & Associations, Columnists
The Great Toronto Area (GTA) real estate market remained in a slump in November. Monthly sales reached numbers not seen since 2008, a year in which just 3,640 properties sold in November on the Toronto real estate board. This year, the market saw 4,236 homes sell in...
by Karen Yolevski, CEO, Carson Dunlop | Dec 6, 2023 | Guest Columns
Last month, the Government of Canada released its 2023 Fall Economic Statement, an annual fiscal report that provides an update on the state of the Canadian economy and the government’s plans for future spending. This year’s statement had a strong focus on ways to...
by Ted Greenhough | Dec 5, 2023 | Advice for Agents, Columnists
I’ve focused a lot on organizational and productivity skills. That’s because you need these skills to support a business where you can comfortably complete 50-100+ transactions per year. Even if your goal is only to do 25 deals per year, wouldn’t you rather do it more...
by Jesse Galanis | Dec 4, 2023 | Advice for Agents, Guest Columns
Imagine the real estate market as a vibrant masquerade ball, full of energy and excitement. In 2022, the dance floor was alive with flips in Canada generating an average gross profit of over 40 per cent. Try to visualize this not as a mere statistic but as the...
by Jonathan Cooper | Nov 27, 2023 | Guest Columns
Over the last few months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke repeatedly about a Canadian housing crisis and the need to “build more homes, faster”. The removal of GST on purpose-built rental buildings was a good step, and a tangible manifestation of the political...
