This week, we take a break from guest bloggers who have given excellent insight and shared great stories, to focus on more pertinent issues related to the current real estate market and economy. Most, if not all of the mortgage economy is based on interest rates, and this is what this week’s focus is going…
Wrapping up the end of the summer this week with yet another inspiring guest blog! This time, it’s Chris van Kasteren from London, ON. Growing up in a family of 6 in a local Lucan, ON farm, he was raised to treat future clients like family and keep a strong work ethic. ———– I grew…
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…
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…
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…
Let’s talk about technology! It is disrupting the world we live in, and every industry known to us is attempting to be simplified (and disrupted) thanks to it; recruitment, dating, retail, and travel to name a few. But of course, the major topic of discussion this week is our profession, real estate and mortgages! …
A recent post on our social media pages and a couple of paragraphs in an older blog briefly discussed the different between a 15 year and 30 year amortization, and the different between the two of them. In real estate, amortization is an accounting term that refers to the repayment of a loan principal over time. Please…
