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Harbour Plaza Condos | Harbour Plaza Residences:The Greater Toronto Area’s Next Great Luxury Homes In the Greater Toronto Area, Harbour Plaza Residences rise high among luxury-condo communities with reasonably-priced opulence. Still, no matter how abundant the value found in a Harbour Plaza experience, there’s certainly a wise, savvy way to go about sizing [...]

  Being debt free is the ultimate financial goal for most people. There are many articles advising us how to get out of debt, that we may automatically assume that debt is a bad thing. However, not all borrowing is bad. There are many occasions when debt can actually [...]

1 March 2011 Dear Friend, With the Toronto Real Estate Board reporting the sale of 6,266 single family homes in February, 2011 is starting off with very strong sales numbers.  The strong sales as well as the shortage of properties for sale have resulted in an increase of the average [...]

013 29 December, 2012 5:50pm EST, By Sunny Batra There is a growing sense of insecurity, especially among women, after the shocking gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student - who died early Saturday in a Singapore hospital - by six monsters in a moving bus in Delhi. And this [...]

Christmas only comes once a year, so enjoy the festivities, the feasting, and all the good cheer. Sending wishes your way for a wonderful Christmas day. May each hour of the holidays be filled with delightful things that will bring you so much pleasure that you will remember them [...]

1                                            Grand Hotel Niagara The hotel is an architectural and cultural landmark, having played host over the years to a colourful guest list of celebrities, politicians and gangsters (with some overlap) that included Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joseph Cotton, and many more. Previous owners were [...]

There is so much condominium construction occurring in the GTA that flipping of sales agreements has become a common real estate transaction. However, it comes with particular legal difficulties. Many buyers of new GTA condos looking to cash in on the hot real estate market by flipping their units [...]

Investing vs Flipping? Best strategies for investing & building your Real Estate portfolio In the current market condition, people now more than ever want to take control to ensure that they have a secure future. I believe that one of the best ways to guarantee your financial independence is [...]

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2013 Building your Real Estate Portfolio In the current market condition, people now more than ever want to take control to ensure that they have a secure future. I believe that one of the best ways to guarantee your financial independence is by developing a real estate portfolio. Although [...]

Over the past decade, Toronto's skyline has been transformed by its explosive condo market. We take a visual look at how this growth has changed Canada's largest urban centre. Click on the images to expand them. Before After Toronto skyline, 1998 (Lampo Professional Photos) June 2012 (Ruby Buiza/CBC) Looking west [...]

Pools are the new balconies in a skyscraper that is under construction in Mumbai, India. Not only does it includes more than 200 apartments, three levels of car parking, a gym and sauna, but it also features pools on the edges of several balconies. Called the Aquaria Grande, the [...]

Toronto vs Vancouver: Which will have the highest house prices in a decade? Toronto is set to rival Vancouver for high housing prices as family homes become more scarce. Toronto could see house prices hit the stratospheric levels of Vancouver’s within a decade unless ways are found to cool demand or [...]

There's a major sense of accomplishment and peace of mind of owning your home outright. Paying off your mortgage sooner can make sound financial sense by saving you thousands of dollars in interest costs. Learning how to save on your mortgage can slice years off your loan. Finding out [...]

With Canadian interest rates, expected to remain at record low for the foreseeable future, the Canadian government is getting creative to try to cool down the Canadian housing industry. On June 21st, the Federal government confirmed that they will be creating new rules governing the Canadian Mortgage and Housing [...]

There's been talk of a price "correction" in the Canadian housing market swirling in real estate and economic circles for some time now, but a new report by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp says that the much anticipated correction may no longer be in the cards. The CMHC's [...]

2013 Investors see Condos as a safe Investment With the global economy still on shaky ground many investors are returning to hard assets. The Canadian real estate has managed to outperform its counterparts in other countries and the Toronto market continues to lead the rest of the Country. More [...]

Luxury housing sales surge forward in most major Canadian centres in 2012, says RE/MAX New records set in just over 60 per cent of markets in the first quarter The Canadian appetite for all things luxury continues to fuel demand for high-end housing, with first quarter 2012 sales well [...]

1  Toronto residential condominium market sees highest gains in May July 2011 Dear Friend, In May 2011 10,046 sales were reported that is up 6% compared to May 2010. This result was the second best on record for May under the current Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) service area. [...]

2 Massey Tower was one of the big sellers of Q1 2012. Stats from the Urbanation Q1-2012 market overview were released today and there are a few juicy ones that really caught our eye. According to an Urbanation press release, there were 6,070 sales in Q1-2012 in the Toronto condo market, [...]

I have not seen God but I have seen my mother who has always loved us, even when we set the carpet on fire while growing up (yes I was a very naughty kid).She has always been there to support us especially when needed the most. She has always [...]

Condo construction continues west of Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto. The head of Canada’s biggest bank and one of the country’s leading developers said the housing market is not in a bubble, even as one economist said Toronto is caught in a “condo craze.” Canadian housing starts rose to the [...]

2012, The Year of the Dragon in Chinese astrology, has been compared to 1992, The Year of the Monkey, and the year when the Toronto condominium market, having famously and disastrously crashed under the combined weight of unrealistic and unreasonable speculative expectation and increasing interest rates, was declared dead [...]

2 Housing evolution driving average price appreciation  in Canada’s major centres, says RE/MAX Record investment dollars poured into Canadian housing stock over past decade Billions spent in new construction, renovation, and infill over the past decade have contributed to a serious upswing in the calibre of Canada’s housing stock, [...]

Region of Peel has started taking application from the eligible applicants under Home in Peel Affordable Ownership Program. The main feature of the program is as follows: The Applicants total gross household income of $80,000 or less. The maximum house price for program participants in the Region of Peel is [...]

012 “The best year ever, right?” developer Peter Freed asked upon hearing the 2011 sales totals for Toronto’s condo market. Indeed it was the best year on record for highrise sales. According to RealNet Canada, 27,224 condos were sold between January and November. The previous sales record from 2007 was [...]

2 Brad J. Lamb made some pretty bold statements on his blog over the weekend, claiming that the condominium vacancy rate in the central area of Toronto was below 1 per cent. The celebrity real estate agent and developer explained that on MLS there are 600 properties for rent (condos freehold) [...]

2 Canadians who have held off on buying a house might reconsider now that two major banks have dropped their mortgage rates to record lows. The Bank of Montreal lowered its benchmark five-year fixed mortgage rate to 2.99 per cent late Thursday -- the lowest posted rate from a major bank in [...]