by Kunal Sawhney | Dec 28, 2021 | Columnists
Active, hyper-active or subdued; rally, correction or crash? How might Canada’s housing market look like in 2022? By one measure, it might be just like 2021 – the same pandemic refusing to retreat, mortgage rates sitting at record low, government yet to end wage and...
by Todd Shyiak | Dec 14, 2021 | Columnists, Featured
The recent Liberal election promise to ban blind bidding was an appeal to Canadians frustrated with increasingly unaffordable home prices and angered by a lack of buyer-side transparency. At a time when most buyers were forced to enter bidding wars, in many cases...
by Mario Toneguzzi | Dec 9, 2021 | Featured, News
The next generation of homebuyers, Generation Z, is primed for first-time home ownership despite challenges with housing affordability, says a report by Mustel Group and Sotheby’s International Realty Canada. The report says that despite the “dream” of home ownership...
by Kunal Sawhney | Nov 29, 2021 | Columnists
There is a reason why taxes are not popular – they make things costlier for the buyer. But no nation can run without taxes. They are the bedrock of any economy – the government that levies them undertakes infrastructure development, maintenance of law and so on. Now...
by Chris Seepe | Nov 2, 2021 | Featured
While the Ontario Real Estate Association’s proposal to end exclusionary zoning and create as-of-right zoning for alternative housing is a good first step in ending community and political NIMBYism towards affordable housing alternatives, these suggestions address...
