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Absurd Vancouver Property Of The Week

Melissa Carr | Posted 06.17.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

Last week, I finished my cross-Canada tour in Alberta. This week, I'm looking at a few pricey celebrity abodes and what the same amount of dosh will fetch you in The Couve.

Absurd Property of the Week: Vancouver vs. Alberta

Melissa Carr | Posted 06.09.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

People live in lots of other cities in our country and for many different reasons. Yes, Vancouver is beautiful. Yes, we have a mild climate. Yes, our quality of life here is amazing! However we also have tons of rain, an out-of-control cost of living and -- absurd property prices. Anyway, I digress. I'm on the last leg of my cross-Canada tour. Today we'll have a look at what your Canuck bucks will fetch you in Alberta.

Absurd Property Of The Week: Vancouver vs. Winnipeg

Melissa Carr | Posted 05.24.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

We're back to our cross-Canada tour and, this week, we're headed to Manitoba. I'm told houses are pretty cheap there, so I thought I'd have a look to find what you could buy for a measly $650K in Winnipeg.

Absurd Vancouver Property: Vancouver vs. Toronto

Melissa Carr | Posted 05.20.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

We're almost halfway across Canada in out 'Absurd Vancouver Properties' series. This week we're focused on three Toronto houses and what domestic perks they hold against f*%king ridiculously priced properties sprinkled throughout Vancouver.

This Is A Healthy Housing Bust..

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is dismissing fears about Canada's housing market, saying the current slowdown is welcome news and that there i...

Guru Who Made Bank Off U.S. Housing Crash Sets Sights On Canada

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 05.09.2013 | Canada Business

A hedge fund manager who became widely-known for predicting and making money off the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble is warning that Canada’s re...

Housing Construction Plunges Nationwide

The Huffington Post Canada | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada Business

Housing starts in Canada were 25.4 per cent lower in April of this year than they were the same month last year, a clear sign that Canada's housing ma...

Absurd Vancouver Property Of The Week

Melissa Carr | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

Last week we had a look at properties in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This week we move on to New Brunswick, where $1.1 million can buy you a country estate, located on over one square kilometre of untouched land, including a seven-acre spring-fed lake. What will it buy you in Vancouver?

Here's Where The Canada-U.S. Price Gap Is Really, Really Big

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Business

Canadians complain about the price gap between U.S. and local stores, but here’s the biggest price gap of them all: housing. According to an anal...

Jesse Ferreras

How Canada's Housing Crash Could Take The Economy Down With It

HuffingtonPost.com | Jesse Ferreras | Posted 04.20.2013 | Canada Business

Canada's housing market is falling in the country's major cities and it could very well drag the economy down with it, a prominent housing analyst sai...

LOOK: Where Did The Other Half Of This Toronto House Go?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.18.2013 | Canada Business

A lot of people probably do double-takes when they walk past 54-1/2 St. Patrick Street in Toronto. It's as if aliens beamed up half the historical 189...

This Is How Much Smoking In Your House Will Cost You

CP | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada Business

Homeowners risk coughing up big bucks if they're also smokers, according a survey of Ontario real estate agents and brokers. The survey found that ...

Mortgage Free? In Your Dreams.

Melissa Carr | Posted 06.10.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Melissa Carr

The average age at which Canadian homeowners with a mortgage believe they will be mortgage free is 57, compared to age 55 in a similar CIBC poll one year ago. And, surprise: residents of B.C. had among the longest repayment expectations in Canada at age 59

Real Estate Bonanza Drawing To A Close: TD

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.11.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Canada's real estate bonanza of the past decade has come to end and the long-term trend as one of the most profitable places to invest is als...

CREA: Home Sales Down In January

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.17.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - The number of homes sold in Canada last month was down 5.2 per cent from January 2012, although about half of the country's local markets saw...

Housing Market Feels A Chill

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - There's mounting evidence October was a weak month for sales of Canadian housing.A new monthly analysis by Teranet shows Canadian housing pr...

Prices Creep Higher In Canada

CP | Craig Wong, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada Business

The average price of a home in Canada crept higher in the third quarter, according to a survey by Royal LePage, but the real estate company warned a s...

Rachel Mendleson

Dreams Of First Home Slipping Away For Young Canadians

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Business

In some respects, Katrina Armstrong has chosen to have a family over owning a family home. She and her husband, who share a two-bedroom rented apa...

Banks Rated 'Negative' On Real Estate Bubble Fears

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.29.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlook from stable to negative on seven Canadian banks over concerns about unsustainably...

Home Real Estate Market At Tipping Point

CP | Alexandra Posadzki, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.09.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO - Canadian home prices generally rose in the second quarter and the pace of home-building increased in June, but industry observers say the re...

Average Home Price Inching Higher

CBC | Posted 07.15.2012 | Canada Business

The average selling price of a Canadian resale home was a little less than one per cent higher in April compared to the same month a year...

Still Planning To Build More..

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.07.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - House-building intentions continued to slow in March, but the construction industry as a whole still looked strong thanks to plans for new in...

Calgary, Toronto See Another House Price Spike

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.27.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Home prices crept higher in March as a slowing Vancouver market was offset by an acceleration in prices in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal, acc...

Ask A Realtor: Making an Offer on a "Hot" Property

Susanne Hudson | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada
Susanne Hudson

In a seller's market, many "hot" properties come on the market and often with holdback offers. These homes are usually newly renovated, nicely decorated and have many features that buyers want. How can you get this house?

Who Is Bidding Up All Those High-Priced Homes

CBC | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada Business

Overseas investors are snapping up properties in Canada's largest cities, driving up prices and pushing ordinary Canadians out of the hou...