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Before the days of bidding wars and bully offers, the real estate market used to be cyclical and fairly predictable. There was a spring market, which was typically the busiest time of year, and there was a fall market, where the action typically picked up following a quiet summer. However, …
Read More »Mississauga police charge real estate agent with sexual assault, more victims possible – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in Mississauga have charged a real estate agent with sexual assault and fear there could be more victims. Peel Regional Police said a man met someone as part of a real estate meeting around Hurontario Street and Eglinton Avenue West in …
Read More »Show me the (real) money: Person throws fake $50 bills on Guelph, Ont. street
It was like a scene from a movie. Someone in Guelph, Ont. decided to throw some money on the street — fake money that is. Guelph police were informed at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday that several $50 bills were being thrown onto the road on Edinburgh Road South near Wilsonview …
Read More »Housing market showing signs of tightening: Toronto real estate board – Toronto
Toronto’s housing market continued to tighten last month as prices edged up four per cent from March and sales moved closer to the level they were at last April, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board revealed Wednesday. April’s average price tumbled 7.8 per cent to $1,153,269, but was roughly four …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Jets’ Morrissey, Hellebuyck, could be real all-stars by season’s end – Winnipeg
The all-star weekend is well underway, and Connor Hellebucyk and Josh Morrissey are — deservedly — getting some attention in South Florida, while their teammates, one can assume, are enjoying some R and R somewhere. But I want to point a couple of things out to you, as you watch …
Read More »Real estate agents caught on hidden camera facilitating mortgage fraud for a fee
As interest rates rise, qualifying for a mortgage is getting harder for buyers, but that isn’t stopping some real estate agents from making a sale. An undercover investigation by CBC Marketplace has exposed some networks of real estate agents, mortgage brokers and bank employees facilitating mortgage fraud for a fee. …
Read More »Real versus fake: how replica guns can pose real problems
A frightening school lockdown in Regina last month that led to weapons charges against a 13-year-old girl has reignited the conversation about how replica weapons can pose a real threat. Regina police were called to F.W. Johnson Collegiate around 9:15 a.m. CST on Sept. 23 for a report that someone …
Read More »Is a GTA real estate deal that sounds like paradise too good to be true?
A million dollar-plus home in the Greater Toronto Area’s hot real estate market for only $700,000. A five per cent down payment. A 30-year mortgage at a 2.75 per cent interest rate. Those were the appealing terms of a real estate deal that local realtor Horace Dockery said has been …
Read More »Vancouver real estate marketer to vacate historic Chinatown building, make way for Chinese Canadian Museum
Vancouver real estate marketer and art collector Bob Rennie will be vacating his office in the oldest building in Chinatown to make way for a new Chinese Canadian museum. The Chinese Canadian Museum, scheduled to open next summer, will be located in the Wing Sang Building on 51 East Pender St. — currently home to …
Read More »Pace of real estate slump quickens; sales and average prices down from last year
Canada’s housing market continued its slowdown last month, with the average selling price of a home touching $665,850 — a decline of almost 20 per cent since February. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), which represents more than 100,000 brokers, agents and salespeople across the country, said Friday that the volume …
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