Participating in a bidding war is a strange practice. If you’re working for the seller, it can make your life a whole lot easier. Sellers sit back and have buyers and their agents present offers […]
When it comes to buying some properties in Toronto right now, you need to put up your mitts and get ready to battle. We hear so much about the bidding wars and the resulting out-of-this world […]
For the past three years, the Toronto condo market has been quite predictable, maybe even a little boring. It is not like the often competitive, battle-heavy housing market where prices have shot up each year […]
Do you remember, about five to ten years ago, almost all HGTV shows featured British couples buying property abroad? Every time I turned on the HGTV channel, up popped a British couple buying property in […]
Remember when $1 million dollars was a lot of money? It was not too long ago that the term “millionaire” meant you were in the leagues of Thurston Howell or Howard Hughes, a yacht-owning, caviar […]
Sometimes around the middle of February I wish I was not Canadian. Not that being a Canadian is so bad, but I just wish there was somewhere we could go, as a Canadian, to sit […]
Does cool really matter in Toronto? Whether you are a hipster or not, you may want to pay attention where these neighbourhood are popping up.
Toronto has seen an insane number of condos go up. So the question is: Why Toronto? There are a lot of other condo-loving cities. Why this one?
If you are anything like me, you may be wondering what happened to summer this year. Nights were cool, temperatures over 30 degrees were rare, and the humidity haters were one happy lot. Still, even […]
Traffic is painful in Toronto, but it’s not just there to make us miserable! It effect how we live and how we buy/sell real estate. Here’s how.
These days, I’m running into two different kinds of buyers. One type of buyer, whether we’re talking about a couple or a single person, wants to buy a house, but they are finding affordable […]
It goes back as far as 2004, the crash talking on Toronto real estate. At first, this was just a few naysayers, but once we cleared the 2008 recession, this group grew louder and more […]
Most people in Canada associate auctions with art, your grandma’s antique dresser, or maybe some cattle. Lightning speed auctioneers take bids working the crowd up into a frenzy until they have reached the highest bid […]
Recently, I have learned that renting an apartment can be as tough as buying a place in this city. As a landlord, I did minimal advertising for my main floor, recently renovated, one […]
Some parents are obsessed with school zones. And to some extent, they should be. Those mouldable minds of your children are important tools to sharpen. In Toronto, for the most part, you go to the […]
You have to love Italy. Sure, they messed up with Benito Mussilini, but wow, they sure know to make a meal and play (or cheer on) an outstanding soccer game. It seems that wherever […]
