Archive for the 'Home Buyers' Category
Is A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing At Your Door? Find Out Why Toronto Buyers Avoid The Underpriced Listing
September 1st, 2008 Categories: First-Time Home Buyers, Home Buyers, News Wire
Knock, Knock! Who’s there? An underpriced listing that may appear to be in your price range but isn’t! Care to make an offer?
Wow! If navigating the Toronto real estate market were only Read the rest of this entry »
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Yo, Criminals! Toronto Real Estate Doesn’t Do Laundry
June 27th, 2008 Categories: Home Buyers, Home Sellers, News Wire
Ten years ago, if you’d told me I’d have to take off my shoes in order to go through security at the airport, well, I wouldn’t have believed you. In fact, I might have placed a call to your family and made some discrete inquiries regarding your state of mind. Now, it’s an accepted part of the airport flight departure process. It might be an inconvenience, but Read the rest of this entry »
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Gas Pump Epiphany: Toronto Real Estate Market Refuses To Stall
May 20th, 2008 Categories: Home Buyers, News Wire, Taxation Nation
According to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, an epiphany can be “a moment of sudden and great revelation”. I LOVE the word. I love the idea that sudden, profound insight into the essence or meaning of some “something” can be triggered by unremarkable events and experiences. Or everday life, as it’s known.
Really, who hasn’t had one or two epiphanies in the course of a lifetime? These moments of revelation can inspire us to Read the rest of this entry »
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Another Day, Another Dollar: Toronto Real Estate Market Endures Another Loonie Listing
April 23rd, 2008 Categories: Home Buyers, Home Sellers, News Wire
Did you happen to catch the local news last Friday evening? If so, you’ve probably heard about the Toronto home owner who is trying to sell his Toronto Riverdale house that is listed for one dollar. That’s right, one dollar. This story caught my amused attention, not because I haven’t seen this “list for one dollar, sell for a million” marketing strategy before, but because Read the rest of this entry »
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A Defining Moment for Toronto’s First-Time Home Buyers
December 21st, 2007 Categories: First-Time Home Buyers, Home Buyers, News Wire, Taxation Nation
Much information has been posted the last couple of weeks concerning both the Toronto Land Transfer Tax and Provincial Land Transfer Tax rebates for first-time home buyers.
The one missing piece was Read the rest of this entry »
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To Pay Or Not To Pay, Toronto Home Buyers Take Aim At Land Transfer Tax Rebate
December 19th, 2007 Categories: First-Time Home Buyers, Home Buyers, News Wire, Taxation Nation
As anticipated, the City of Toronto has just announced further details with respect to the Toronto municipal land transfer tax, and the rebates available to eligible Toronto home buyers. Happily, the rebate policies will Read the rest of this entry »
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At Last! Thirsty Toronto Home Buyers Get A Drink From Land Transfer Tax Rebate Tap
December 17th, 2007 Categories: First-Time Home Buyers, Home Buyers, News Wire, Taxation Nation
The Ontario government has just announced its intention to expand the Land Transfer Tax Refund Program for first-time home buyers to include purchases of resale housing. This tax rebate applies Read the rest of this entry »
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Toronto: You’re Magnetic, Attractive, What’s Your Secret?
December 12th, 2007 Categories: Home Buyers, Home Ownership, Home Sellers, Lifestyle News, News Wire
The first-ever metropolitan benchmarking study, “City Magnets: Benchmarking the Attractiveness of Canada’s CMAs”, has just been Read the rest of this entry »
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Toronto Home Buyers Love Condo Pie: Follow My Recipe And You Will Too!
December 11th, 2007 Categories: Condo Marketplace, Home Buyers, Home Ownership, News Wire
Pie, I love thee so. And if condos were the pie on the Toronto real estate market dessert table, Toronto home buyers Read the rest of this entry »
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Lower Toronto Property Taxes Appeal to Buyers, Find Out Why!
December 6th, 2007 Categories: Home Buyers, News Wire
If you own a home in the City of Toronto, you pay the lowest property taxes of any city in southern Ontario. As a Toronto real estate agent who often writes deals in outlying regions, I see firsthand Read the rest of this entry »
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