When you see a property that sits on the market without selling, the obvious question is "Why?" Let's take a look at three properties that haven't sold and get into what is causing them to remain on the market.
In late May, 2016, MPAC started sending out their 2016 Property Assessment Notices. These lovely documents provide an assessed value for your property, based on a secret formula developed by MPAC scientists in a bunker in the wilds of Northern Ontario. That might be a bit of an exaggeration. Truth
I was having a conversation the other day with Drake, and he was quite surprised when I told him that forget about the six, the five is where it really is these days. Full disclosure, Drake is the nickname I have given one of Diane’s fish in her aquarium. Fuller
I’m going to admit right off the bat that I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of the TV show Mad Men lately. Whenever I watch a lot of a particular show or read a particular book series, it tends to influence how I view the world for a brief
There are no shortage of green topics these days. Whether it is marijuana legalization or the explosive growth of medical marijuana dispensaries in Ontario over the last year, we see lots of news stories about marijuana and the money in play. I recently rented out a commercial space to
Given I spent an hour shovelling snow this morning and then took twice as long to get to my morning appointment, winter weather is definitely on my mind today. When I saw the latest market data for February, it gave me the idea to talk about how the weather outside
I’ve been in some bad homes. Condos with layouts that make me scratch my head, where the bathroom has an inexplicable diagonal jog behind the tub and living rooms are bisected by a pillar that makes placement of a couch or TV pretty much impossible. Houses where modern touches have been
Oh boy. I’ll be honest, as soon as I wrote this post title, I regretted it. For the last decade or so, predicting real estate has been a bit of a chump’s game. If I had a dollar for every time an economist, business magazine or bank predicted the collapse of
With only 15 days until Christmas, today is a good day to talk about how the holidays impact real estate. I know this is a fascinating topic, because every year my family can barely contain their excitement when I start discussing this as we open presents on Christmas Day. The
