Why more home buyers and sellers are turning to flat-fee brokers : NPR

Jim Xiao paid an agent a flat $10,000 fee to help him buy a home in Evans, Ga., last year. Here, Xiao and his children play soccer at their new home.

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Vancouver real estate a buyer’s territory: What to know

Slower housing sales and rising inventories tip market conditions in favour of buyers, but caution is the watch word for both sides of real estate transactions in Metro Vancouver.

Real estate buyers in Toronto find competition has returned

The real estate market in the Greater Toronto Area is shifting gears and buyers who became used to a languid pace are scrambling to keep up.

John Pasalis, president of Realosophy Realty, says people looking at properties in the fall

A wave of defaults has real estate lawyers urging presale buyers to be cautious

In 2021, Sudip Sehgall put down an $81,990 deposit on a yet-to-be-built townhouse in Surrey, B.C. While it was under construction, he occasionally visited the site to watch it grow.

The 52-year-old envisioned the deal taking him steps closer to

Real estate buyers still active in fading days of 2023

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102 Bedford Rd., Toronto, sold at its full asking price of $3.895-million after seven days on the market.Sotheby’s International Realty Canada

After a lacklustre fall in Toronto-area real estate, a few determined home buyers

Hot Calgary real estate market has buyers getting creative – Calgary

In a heartwarming twist in Calgary’s real estate scene, a young couple successfully secured their dream home by attaching a heartfelt love letter to their offer for Carellyn Pitre’s family home.

The emotional touch not only captured Pitre’s heart, but

Super-wealthy real estate buyers are back on the prowl

1318 Minto Cres., a 10,000-square-foot home on a roughly 27,000-square-foot lot, is listed for sale at $24.8-million.Christie’s International Real Estate

Vancouver’s super high-end buyers, not your random millionaires – but your centi-millionaire types – appear to be out of

Real estate agents and insiders expose the secret tactics used to lure buyers and sellers

If you are fortunate enough to try to enter Australia’s property market, you have come across its gatekeepers – real estate agents.

You may have suspected price guides were being lowballed, been promised the world by an agent, or felt