Thursday, January 26, 2017 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
Fiery Toronto real estate heats up surrounding markets Increasing home prices in the GTA are having a spillover effect in surrounding cities, according to a recent report. Skyrocketing single-family home prices in the GTA are encouraging buyers to purchase outside the city, according to CMHC’s latest Housing Markets Insight
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Category: Real Estate
Tags: Homes for sale,sugarbush,oro,oro medonte,Gloucester pool,six Mile Lake,Severn,Georgian Bay,homes for sale,simcoe,muskoka
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
Warning over flood risk for homebuyers Homebuyers may believe that they are protected in the event of a flood but are ill-informed. A poll commissioned by Public Safety Canada reveals that 40 per cent of homeowners think the federal government will compensate them if there is a large overland
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Category: Real Estate
Tags: Homes for sale,sugarbush,oro,oro medonte,Gloucester pool,six Mile Lake,Severn,Georgian Bay,homes for sale,simcoe,muskoka
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
New LTT rebate for first-time buyers in Ontario First-time buyers in Ontario will benefit from the newly-extended land transfer tax rebate announced Tuesday. Buyers can now claim back up to $4,000 which for cities with an average price of $368,000 or less will mean they pay no LTT at
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Category: Real Estate
Tags: Homes for sale,sugarbush,oro,oro medonte,Gloucester pool,six Mile Lake,Severn,Georgian Bay,homes for sale,simcoe,muskoka
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
PROTECT YOUR PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE EXEMPTION! PROTECT YOUR PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE EXEMPTION! – CHANGES TO REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SALE OF YOUR HOME By Dave Thomas Generally speaking, Canadians do not pay any Capital Gains Tax on the growth in value of their homes. The Income Tax Act provides an exemption
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Category: Real Estate
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
Loonie weakness could stimulate home price growth this year The sustained weakness of the loonie-greenback exchange rate might prove most helpful for the Canadian housing sector in 2017, according to an analyst. Vestcap Investment Management senior portfolio manager Lyle Stein argued that the low Canadian dollar could magnetize
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Category: Economics
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Friday, September 5, 2014 @ 8:58 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
Mike Holmes: Maintain your gutters, before the frost Source: National Post The kids are back in school and that means summer’s over. Autumn is coming and soon we’ll be climbing up our roofs and cleaning out the gutters before the fall leaves begin their damage. But how much damage can
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Category: Home Improvement
Tags: Cottage,home,six mile lake,Gloucester pool,Severn,Oro Medonte,sugarbush,horseshoe valley
Monday, July 14, 2014 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
Are you ready for a major power outage? This article is by staff writer William Cowie. Have you considered how your life would freeze to a standstill if a general outage cut electric power for more than two or three days? As every summer dawns, it’s a question more
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Category: Real Estate
Tags: Sugarbush,horseshoe valley,six mile lake,Gloucester pool,Severn,cottages for sale,homes for sale
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 @ 12:00 AM
Posted By: Sean Smith
Say goodbye to family cottage before its too late: financial advisor s But financial advisors say that learning when to let go is a fundamental part of ensuring that your lakefront property doesn't become a bad investment. "There's the romance of it, and there's the reality," said Jason Pereira, a
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Category: Real Estate
Tags: Real estate,cottages,six mile lake,Gloucester pool,tea lake,little lake,Maclean lake,Severn river,cottages for sale