Location! Location! Location!  The property location and neighborhood directly contributes to the value of your chosen property so it is important to include location as your top 3 must-haves in purchasing a home.   Safety Is the neighbourhood known to be a safe community? You can check crime rates and see the trending crimes in the area - and then evaluate how you can manage to keep your household safe in this area or not. Also check how far is the local fire hall to... [read more]

Complaints to real estate broker regulators (RECO)  have been on the rise as home buyers are trying to out bid each other in limited listings available in the current real estate market. From April 2020 to April 2021 …”there has been an increase of 38% of these types of complaints related to home buying,” according to Brian Buchan, a spokesperson for the Real Estate Council of Ontario.Home buyers are calling professional real estate regulators to build more ground rules... [read more]

It is not a secret that most home buyers are looking to suburbs to find more affordable homes. Urban exodus is one of the trends pushed by the low inventory and high prices in the metro areas, forcing home buyers to go outside of the GTA.   According to recent April 2021 data, the number of home buyers have dropped way faster than the number of home sellers. This is can be attributed to the incoming stress test rates going higher (from 4.79% to 5.25%) in effect this June 1, 2021.... [read more]