In a hot rental market like we’re experiencing in Toronto, understanding how landlords assess a prospective tenant is very important. Here’s a glimpse inside the mind of a landlord.
There are no capital gains taxes when you sell your primary residence but income properties are a very different story. Here’s what it costs to dispose of an income property.
From compensation to tenants for no-fault evictions to requiring squatter tenants to pay rent and utilities arrears when they abuse the system, the new Act has some significant changes.
For a number of months now, I’ve been saying that the government is going to intervene into the housing market in the GTA. Less than a month ago I wrote an article, cheerfully called The End is Nigh where I recapped what I had been saying and reiterated my belief […]
Back in January, I wrote some predictions about what would happen to real estate in 2016. As the year is drawing to a close, I thought it would be fun to look back and see how I did with my predictions. I first looked at what I predicted would happen […]
There is a poem by Robert Frost called “The Road Not Taken” that has the distinction of being the most misread poem in America, according to the Paris Review. I know what you are thinking. Yet another real estate article comparing misinterpretations of classic poetry with property appreciation in the […]
I’ll get right to the point because the clock is ticking. In 10 days from now, new rules kick in for mortgages. Starting October 17, 2016, all buyers with less than a 20 per cent down payment must qualify based on the five-year benchmark posted rate, which is currently approximately […]
I like a lot of aspects of working in real estate, but if you asked me to narrow it down to my favourites, I would have to say that there are two really great things about my job. The first is that I get to meet great people. People I […]
