by Chris Seepe | Feb 21, 2020 | News
Very little of substance from any level of government in Canada gives me hope that affordable housing (AH) in Ontario will become a reality within the next decade, but I see much evidence that it won’t happen. AH is a municipal-level issue but cities like Oshawa have...
by REM Editorial Team | Feb 4, 2020 | News
The average monthly asking rent for Canada rose 4.3 per cent year-over-year at the end of December, according to a report from Rentals.ca and Bullpen Research & Consulting. The three largest cities experienced significant rent increases in 2019 for all property...
by REM Editorial Team | Jan 21, 2020 | Books
Toronto real estate broker and frequent REM columnist Chris Seepe has written a new book, The Dark Side of Residential Landlording. Seepe describes it as “a no-nonsense, in-the-trenches, irreverent, occasionally contemptuous, sometimes funny, decade-long deeply...
by Bob Aaron | Jan 7, 2020 | Columnists, Featured, Legal Issues
How does an interested buyer know if a home’s basement apartment is legal? And what information about basement apartments must real estate agents provide to buyers? Mohamed came to my office last month with an agreement to purchase a two-unit house in Kitchener, Ont....
by Natalka Falcomer | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured
The retail industry is in a revolution. Store closures hit a record high of 7,600 and surprising bankruptcies ravaged the retail battlefield in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Once iconic brands died embarrassing deaths at the hands of hungry upstarts – upstarts that understood...
