by David J Rotfleisch | Aug 12, 2021 | Featured, Legal Issues
The foreign buyers tax is a property transfer tax in Ontario and British Columbia. The tax is imposed by the provincial governments under their land transfer tax statutes. It is payable in addition to the normal land transfer tax. The tax is payable by a “foreign...
by Yousaf Iqbal | Apr 28, 2021 | Featured, Guest Columns
You know that international buyers are important, but are they important enough to warrant an agent’s investment of serious time and effort? If you believe Statistics Canada, you might think so. The official Canadian authority on data issued a report showing that...
by REM Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2020 | News
In the United Kingdom, the housing market ground to a halt in March due to COVID-19, but since then buying activity has picked up, says Bankrate, a U.K. mortgage information portal. It reports that according to Google trends, “relocation” searches have spiked by more...
by Ruban Selvanayagam | Dec 23, 2019 | Columnists, Featured
Now that the U.K. is almost certainly going to leave the E.U. in early 2020, you may be wondering what the impact will be on house prices. Although we love talking about the property market, it’s a struggle to give a clear-cut response. The truth is that nobody – not...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 16, 2018 | News
The Association of Family Offices in Asia has announced a strategic partnership with Chinese international property platform Juwai.com. The alliance will make it easier for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth Chinese and other wealthy Asian investors to source,...
