A fraudulent scheme that saw an unoccupied home in Richmond, B.C., sold without the owner’s consent has led to more than $300,000 in discipline penalties and costs for the real estate agents and brokers involved.
Year: 2023
Bullets fly into sleeping family’s home in escalating dispute with handyman, feds say
A Texas family awoke to gunfire and bullets ripping through their home — and a feuding handyman was pulling the trigger, federal officials say.
Jason Jaime Merdes, 44, is accused of targeting the family in a drive-by shooting, which
Here’s another major sign Toronto’s real estate market is in big trouble right now
There are a handful of trends that show how badly Toronto’s housing market is flopping right now, and the latest may be the most concerning of all.
As noted by local mortgage expert Jason Geall on his well-followed TikTok account
How Your Home Can Pay For Emergency Repairs
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Key takeaways
- Home equity loans and home equity lines of credit can be an option to help cover emergency home repair costs.
- Benefits of using HE loans and HELOCs include lower interest
Provincewide real estate prices fall, local area sees increase
‘We’re only in November, but it appears many would-be home buyers have already gone into hibernation,’ said CREA official
Prices for three leading real estate categories fell in October compared to September, data released Wednesday by the Canadian Real Estate
How Ace Hardware Is Hammering Its Big-Box Rivals
How Ace Hardware Is Hammering Its Big-Box Rivals
The pandemic-driven boom in home repair, rehab, and do-it-yourself projects is over, leaving Home Depot and Lowe’s in the dust. Hobbled by high prices and interest rates, US existing home
The Trans Handy Ma’am: the home repair TikToker championing renters | Renting property
In April 2021, Mercury Stardust, a Wisconsin maintenance technician, was “cleaning someone else’s poop off myself” after a clogged toilet came apart. She happened to see a video of someone asking how to use a ratchet strap, one of
CIBC analyst offers some top picks in the real estate sector
Daily roundup of research and analysis from The Globe and Mail’s market strategist Scott Barlow
CIBC analyst Sumayya Syed surveyed the REIT sector and offered some top picks,
“We estimate 2024 FFO [funds from operations]/unit growth to average approximately 3