Archive for Luxury Toronto Homes
Greater Toronto Area Luxury Market Report
REMAX has released the Luxury Market Report for the Canadian luxury real estate market during the first few months of 2011. In the Greater Toronto Area, luxury real estate means Toronto real estate priced over $1.5 million. In the first quarter of 2011, from January to April, the Greater Toronto Area saw a nine per [...]
Does Your Toronto Home Need A Boost Before Selling?
The easiest, quickest and cheapest way to help improve your Toronto home’s look before you put it up for sale. Toronto Real estate.
Winterlicious in Toronto
Are you ready for Toronto’s Winterlicious? If you’re new to the city or are thinking of selling your home and moving to a different neighbourhood in Toronto, there’s no better way to get a feel for the offerings of any particular area than Winterlicious. Winterlicious – along with its warm-weather counterpart Summerlicious – is an [...]
More About The HST From The Toronto Real Estate Board
It has been just over five months since the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) was introduced in Ontario. The HST applies both directly and indirectly to the cost of buying a home depending on what type of real estate it is. For newly constructed homes, the HST applies. For resale homes, the HST does not apply [...]
Toronto Real Estate Market Expected To Stay Stable: RBC
A new Royal Bank of Canada report says that the Toronto housing market will remain stable through 2011. According to the report, the Toronto real estate market has recovered significantly since late summer, which proved that demand has not decreased, but that instead special circumstances like the Harmonized Sales Tax and new mortgage rules drove [...]
Toronto Annual Home Sales Increase For Fourth Month In A Row
It’s unfortunate that headlines like “GTA home sales down in November” and “Housing sales down” are what most people see while scanning the computer screen or newspaper, depending on how they get their fill of news each day. In these same news stories, comments on how Toronto’s real estate market is just a wee bit [...]
Harmonized Sales Tax and Toronto Real Estate Fact Sheet
Earlier this year, a survey came out that polled Ontario real estate agents on whether they thought their clients understood the new Harmonized Sales Tax that was introduced on July 1st. The majority of those surveyed said their clients didn’t understand what the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) applies to, and in some cases it affected [...]
Maintaining Toronto Gardens In The Fall
Curb appeal is essentially the first impression of your home, what prospective buyers see as they drive by. You can help this first impression work in your favour. If you’re thinking of selling your piece of Toronto real estate in the spring time, you can make life easier on yourself now by putting your garden [...]
Buying Land In The Greater Toronto Area? Get A Land Survey
Toronto real estate lawyer Bob Aaron describes what can go wrong without a land survey in his Toronto Star column this week. In his column, Aaron tells of an Edmonton family who purchased a plot of land with the intention of building a house there. However, everyone involved dropped the ball and the property that [...]
Toronto Real Estate: Do Average House Prices Matter?
The Globe and Mail recently published an excellent look into Toronto real estate month-to-month pricing and whether or not it’s helpful to the average homeowner to consider these statistics when deciding to jump into the Toronto real estate market. In an interview with chief economist for the Canadian Real Estate Association Gregory Klump, Klump says [...]
