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Montreal Home Sales Up 10% Year-Over-Year

by Phil Hall | Aug 7, 2025

The $625,000 median price for single-family houses from last month is a 7% uptick from the $585,000 price from July 2024. Continue Reading Montreal Home Sales Up 10% Year-Over-Year

Toronto Records Strongest July Home Sales in Four Years

by Phil Hall | Aug 6, 2025

The average selling price of $1.05 million was down by 5.5% from one year earlier. Continue Reading Toronto Records Strongest July Home Sales in Four Years

‘Our mortgage got so high we put off having a baby’

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: BBC News --- Alex Czok and her husband Tom Beech had hoped to start a family this year but when their mortgage went up by hundreds of pounds they put their plans on hold. They are one of the four million UK households facing higher mortgage bills this year....

Residential real estate investors and investment properties in 2020

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: Statistics Canada --- Overview For the first time, the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) is publishing data on investors. This article presents a profile of these owners and the residential properties they owned in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New...

11 Luxe Homes That Bring the Outdoors Inside, From Costa Rica to California

by Third Party | Feb 5, 2023

Source: Robb Report --- For many people, being surrounded by nature has a positive impact on mood, health and happiness. The pandemic exacerbated the need to be in or around the great outdoors after months of being unable to leave confined spaces. Biophilic design, as...

‘We saved probably close to $100K’: Affluent Americans are snatching up prime real estate in other parts of the world — as the US housing market slumps. Here’s how to do it too

by Third Party | Feb 4, 2023

Source: Yahoo! Life --- Laetitia Laurent knows the value of looking far and wide for a good deal. The Florida-based business owner and her husband had been hunting for a second home for five years before snagging an incredible bargain — in Paris. She made an offer in...

China’s real estate crisis isn’t over yet, IMF says

by Third Party | Feb 4, 2023

Source: CNBC --- BEIJING — China needs to do more in order to fix its real estate problems, the International Monetary Fund said Friday. The property market contributes to about a quarter of China’s GDP and has been a drag on growth, especially since Beijing cracked...

Mortgage overpayments surge as borrowers fend off rising interest bills

by Third Party | Feb 3, 2023

Source: Financial Times --- Mortgage borrowers scrambled to pay down their housing debt after interest rates on home loans soared, with lump-sum repayments and redemptions jumping to £2.4bn in October last year from £1.7bn in the same month in 2021. The figures from...

Mortgage borrowing falls by £1bn as property market slowdown continues

by Third Party | Feb 2, 2023

Source: Money Week --- The latest data from the Bank of England (BoE) shows a growing number of people are questioning whether now is a good time to buy a house, adding more uncertainty to the property market’s outlook for 2023. The BoE’s Money and Credit report...

Mortgage approvals plummet further

by Third Party | Feb 2, 2023

Source: FT Adviser --- Mortgage approvals fell for a fourth consecutive month in December 2022, reaching the lowest level seen since May 2020, during the first lockdown. Statistics released today (January 31) from the Bank of England showed that mortgage approvals...

Aussie real estate agent’s huge success after being brutally mocked online

by Third Party | Feb 2, 2023

Source: NEWS.COM.AU --- An Aussie real estate agent who was being mercilessly mocked online has revealed how he capitalised on the “hurtful” jokes to become more successful than ever. Fraser Lack is a Melbourne real estate agent who has become the unofficial front...

London’s luxury home sellers turn to WhatsApp as private sales surge

by Third Party | Feb 1, 2023

Source: CNBC --- LONDON — In trying times for the U.K. real estate market, a growing number of Londoners are opting for novel means of buying and selling their properties, with WhatsApp emerging as a new home for luxury listings. Off-market home sales surged in the...