CENTURY 21® Annual Ride Campaign For
The Heart And Stroke Foundation's
BIG BIKE EVENT
With four BIG BIKE rides scheduled for 2013, join CENTURY 21® Heritage Group Ltd. as they pedal their way towards their goal of raising funds for Heart and Stroke research and education.
The Heritage Has Heart campaign in the CENTURY 21® Heritage Group Ltd. firm was ...
Posted by Lisa Fedele
on May 10, 2013
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has released the national home sales activity for March 2013. The statistics show an increase in activity over February, but a decrease from March 2012.
Please click here for all the details.
Posted by Martin Minda
on April 18, 2013
On April 15 the Competition Tribunal announced that it has dismissed an application initiated by the Commissioner of Competition against the Toronto Real Estate Board, and ordered costs payable by the Commissioner of Competition of TREB.
The Competition Tribunal stated that its decision is based on its finding that the Toronto Real Estate Board was not acting anti-competitively.
VOWs allow consumers ...
Posted by Pamela Prescott
on April 18, 2013
According to Moneysense (Canada's Personal Finance Website) the top 20 cities of 2013 show Canadians where are the best places to live. This is Moneysenses's 8th annual list, where best places are determined by various qualifications. Things that are considered while determining best places to live include: incomes and employment, the price of housing, weather, crime rates and access ...
Posted by Pamela Prescott
on April 17, 2013
The Greater Toronto Area is growing but unfortunately land is getting scarce for new construction so up is where builders are building. There are approximately 80,000 to 100,000 new immigrants every year. According to RealNet Canada Inc., based on those numbers we need approximately 40,000 new homes to be built every year, that is the size of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Looking down ...
Posted by Rose Lopez-Frometa
on February 7, 2013
We have all seen those TV programs whereby they show homeowners do DIY renovations and they are complete disasters. Sure, we are only human after all and we think “wouldn’t it be great to save the money instead of paying the professional contractor to fix…I’m going to do it myself”.
When thinking about it, it all seems so simple until you start the project ...
Posted by Rose Lopez-Frometa
on December 19, 2012
The Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) has released several interactive real estate video series. This one is called "What Neighbourhood Is Right For Me?" By answering the questions in the video, it gives information that many buyers will find useful when making their home buying decisions.
Posted by Martin Minda
on November 19, 2012
In the Greater Toronto Area, we have seen a steady growth in our real estate market even with a couple of major changes that affected our market place in the last 5 years. One major change was in 2008 which was the additional land transfer tax that buyers paid on properties registered with the Toronto Land Registry Office. Since this is an out of pocket expense, some buyers have steered ...
Posted by Rose Lopez-Frometa
on October 23, 2012
Canada's housing financing rules for government-backed insured mortgages are going to be adjusted once again. Yesterday Jim Flaherty announced that these changes are to help hard working Canadians to not become overextended.
The 4 new measures below will take effect on July 9th, 2012.
Since 2011, the current maximum amortization is 30 years which was ...
Posted by Rose Lopez-Frometa
on June 22, 2012
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has released the MLS® Home Price Index statistics that show an increase in home prices in April 2012. Click here for the details.
Posted by Martin Minda
on May 30, 2012