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Canadian real estate markets caught betw...
It seems Canada’s resilient housing market is finally meeting a storm it can’t immediately weather. In CREA’s February 2025 data, we saw home sale ...
Mar 19, 2025Read full articleElan's Mortgage Minute - Understanding Y...
Elan's Mortgage Minute: This newsletter is designed to provide mortgage insights to help you better understand your options whether you’re a 1st time home buyerloo ...
Feb 13, 2025Read full articleWhy Land Lease Homes in a Lifestyle Comm...
Why Land Lease Homes in a Lifestyle Community may be a Good Investment Hi and welcome to The Next Chapter podcast… where we delve into another of the 130+ topics ...
Feb 05, 2025Read full articleWhy having a PLAN B can Crash-Proof your...
Why Having a Plan B Can Crash-Proof Your Life Hi and welcome to The Next Chapter podcast… where we delve into one of the 130+ topics in our new book. You know&hel ...
Dec 07, 2024Read full articleWhy Buying a Home with One of our Kids m...
Hi and welcome to The Next Chapter podcast… where we delve into one of the 130+ topics in our new book. You know… if there’s one thing Monika and I ha ...
Dec 04, 2024Read full articleKey Mortgage Trends and Insights with El...
Key Trends and Insights: The mortgage renewal "TIDAL WAVE" is coming! In short, many Canadians received ultra-low "COVID" rates during 2020/2021 - and now 5 yea ...
Dec 04, 2024Read full articleTIME… HOW WE VALUE IT, INVEST IT, SPEN...
TIME… HOW WE VALUE IT, INVEST IT, SPEND IT AND BANK IT Time and how we value it has been a very intriguing topic based on feedback from our readers. This is one o ...
Sep 24, 2024Read full articleMortgage Renewal vs Mortgage Refinance
What's the difference and which one is right for you? When applying for a mortgage, buyers have to make a lot of decisions about exactly what sort of agreement they want ...
Jun 05, 2022Read full articleWhy Bond Yields affect your Mortgage Rat...
In a recent article, we looked at how theBank of Canada's policy rateaffects other banks' prime rates and what it means for borrowers. The bank's interest rat ...
Jun 02, 2022Read full articleOvernight Rate vs. Prime Rate explained
These days, everyone has their eyes on the Bank of Canada as they are in the progress of gradually raising interest rates. As the Bank of Canada rate goes up, so do mortg ...
May 20, 2022Read full articleWhen & How to get a House Appraisal in O...
With all the talk about house prices, have you ever stopped to wonder just how exactly home prices are actually determined? On a foundational level, we know that land its ...
May 20, 2022Read full articleDo you pay Property Taxes on Vacant Land...
One of the most valuable aspects of real estate is the very land itself, so why not just buy land on its own? As the old saying goes, they aren't making any more of it. T ...
Apr 27, 2022Read full articleNowhere For Them To Go To: Baby Boomers ...
An Ottawa professor and Smart Prosperity Institute director thinks one of the reasons is there's no where for them to go. With baby boomers having an increasingly difficu ...
Apr 23, 2022Read full articleOptions for a Vacant Land Mortgage in Ca...
If you’re interested in building a home or another kind of building in Canada, your first step will be to buy land. Though vacant land is generally less expensive t ...
Apr 23, 2022Read full articleHow a New Paint Colour can make you Hous...
How a new exterior paint color can boost the curb appeal of your home If you’re looking to sell your house and make the most out of the sale, you can do so by boos ...
Apr 02, 2022Read full articleBuying a Home in Ontario and Understandi...
The well-known myth of the American dream is owning a house is the suburbs with your white picket fence. Nowadays, homeownership can feel like a faraway dream for many yo ...
Mar 24, 2022Read full articleCan Tiny Homes be a Solution to Canada's...
Tiny houses have become more popular, but there are plenty of challenges to building them With housing prices continuing to climb and supply plummeting, finding your dre ...
Mar 24, 2022Read full articleMunicipal Snow Removal Bylaws not cut-an...
Only two days after the worst snowfall in living memory in southern Ontario, where cities were draped with as much as two feet of heavy snow in just five hours (and which ...
Feb 06, 2022Read full articleHigh Demand Trades in Canada... why such...
In a recent article, we looked at how theprices of residential construction have increasedrapidly in the past few years. One difficulty that has been contribu ...
Feb 04, 2022Read full articleThe Best Scents to Sell your House
At times, the amount of detail required for staging when you sell houses can seem a bit much. Does it really make a difference what colours my walls are, or what music I ...
Feb 02, 2022Read full article