This week, we have a new and special guest blogger! Please welcome Terrie Schauer. She is a real estate investor and property manager with has a passion for residential rental properties. She’s been working to make small- and medium sized investment properties profitable for twenty years, in Canada’s major markets (Toronto, Vancouver and now Montreal)…
In last Wednesday’s blog, we took a look at some of the factors that made the real estate market in Canada a difficult one to enjoy, and couldn’t put the blame on one thing in particular. It was not a particularly positive update to share, but at least things were made more sense of. This…
There have already been a number of posts on our social media channels and even previous blogs that have discussed this issue, but we’ve researched and put together a nice and very brief summary of what has been going on in the last three years in the national real estate market. In the summer of…
We love our Sens, Toronto’s Raptors just made history in the NBA, but one sport that is not acknowledged as much in general; baseball! Of course, we have our national representative also in Toronto, who do their best every season to get closer to a World Series. But this week, in honour of Canada Day,…
It’s almost the middle of 2019, the stress test is still affecting many of the younger generation who haven’t bought a home before, and affordability is decreasing by the month in major Canadian cities; but everything is still doable if you do it right! Start accepting help from the family, or outside. In Ontario, housing…
Of all the major cities and their popularity in Canada, we are certainly not used to Ottawa becoming so big in real estate! And why is this happening? For most of the past decade-and-a-half, frenetic activity across the country has completely taken Ottawa off the map, in terms of media coverage. Let’s look back a…
From late 2016 until 2018, there have been rule changes by Canadian policymakers in the real estate industry. This led to many future homebuyers being suddenly afraid of owning their own property due to tightened mortgage lending rules, but reflecting on macro results now, it has appeared to be bringing the country’s real estate market…
Alexandre Traboulsi has been living in Ottawa for the past few years to study Law, but his career path had recently taken a different turn – a story he was happy to share with us. Meet our latest guest blogger! How I got involved in Property Management As I moved to Ottawa to pursue my…
We recently wrote about and shared a story about the CMHC wanting to help all young Canadians buy homes by proposing a shared equity plan. As intriguing as this idea is, many suggest it’s a strange idea and probably will not benefit anyone in the long run. The federal government proposed a budget that includes…
We talk so much about mortgage issues, real estate trends, and real estate news that we often forget about what goes on inside the home! Most homes are usually valued by how they look like from the outside, but isn’t it time to speak about a small aspect of the inside? We are now in…
