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There's a sense of cautious optimism in Ontario's new home market
Residential Landscape There's a sense of cautious optimism in Ontario's new home marketBarbara LawlorPartner & CEO, Baker Real Estate Inc. |
Feds in talks with 'all provinces' to cut GST on new homes
A week after the federal and Ontario governments announced they would cut the HST for new homes bought in Ontario for a year, the federal housing minister said he is in talks to expand the initiative.
Over 84,000 Ontario houses owned by businesses
More than 84,300 houses across Ontario were owned as investments by businesses or for-profit government entities such as public-sector pension funds in 2023, according to data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program.
The rise of the citizen developer
Toronto architect Janna Levitt and her partner Dean Goodman are part of a new generation of small-scale “citizen developers” quietly reshaping low-rise neighbourhoods and transforming a housing market long dominated by large commercial operators.
West Vancouver ordered by B.C. to build more homes
After almost two years of back and forth with West Vancouver over its lack of progress on housing targets, the B.C. government has overridden the municipality and amended parts of its official community plan to allow for greater density.
Who will build 4 million new homes?
VIDEO: Facing a housing crisis, Canada has rolled out an ambitious plan to build millions of homes in the next five years — but the country is also facing a major shortage of construction workers.
Two Toronto legacy brokerages band together
Forest Hill Real Estate is joining forces with a fellow decades-old, family-founded Toronto brokerage, Slavens & Associates, in a strategy designed to pool resources and talent to face a competitive marketplace head-on.
Court upholds injunction in Keller Williams case
A closely watched dispute between Keller Williams and two of its former top Ontario operators has taken another turn, with a court denying Keller Williams' attempt to appeal an order blocking them from running competing Royal LePage offices.
Buyers, sellers look for a spring jolt of market energy
Stalled real estate sales in the Greater Toronto Area edged up slightly in March, but the market needs an injection of buyer confidence before sales really lift off, industry watchers say.
In Port Hope, architectural heritage is serious business
In some places, heritage architecture seems like an afterthought, or, worse, something that doesn’t appear on the radar until there’s an emergency. But in Port Hope, Ont., heritage is serious business, and has been since at least the 1960s.
War adds ‘uncertainty premium’ to Canadian mortgages
A war half a world away is quietly rewriting Canadian mortgage math, pushing up fixed rates, pressuring condo investors and shaking household sentiment all at once.
Homeowners cut spending as mortage renewals approach
Many homeowners are cutting back on spending to keep up with mortgage payments, but affordability anxiety isn’t stopping some prospective buyers from eyeing an opportunity to enter the market, according to a TD Bank survey.
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