Should I always buy detached?
When you think of buying a home, it is always important to consider the location, convenience, and lifestyle that each property will facilitate, and your budget. But there’s always a …
Under Real Estate In Depth
A bit deeper than the normal real estate discussion.
If you had a dollar to invest
If you had a dollar to invest in anything, where would you put it? Supposed the options are putting your dollar into downpayment for a mortgage on a home in …
“Good” Assets
Recent market conditions haven’t been kind to the buyers. A strong sellers market in all segments (condos have recently joined the fun) means that there isn’t really an underperforming segment …
Sell Fast Buy Slow
If anyone has done some reading lately, they couldn’t possibly miss the psychology book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a seminal book on our cognitive biases based upon …
The donut
Recently this talk of a donut effect is all the rage. For those who aren’t familiar, the donut effect is essentially masses of people abandoning the centre of the city …
Supply, Supply, Supply
Over the last couple of months since there have been a opening up of the markets, we, along with many other realtors I am sure, have been servicing a good …
The Jump, Sale First With Rent Back
On my last post, I discussed in detail the advantages and disadvantages of the subject to sale method of doing the jump transaction. If that isn’t quite what you are …
The Jump Part 1, Subject To Sale
As previously mentioned, I am doing a series on what I call the jump or step up transaction. This is whereby the client will need to sell a property in …
The Jump Introduction
I was told the other day by a client to post a bit more real estate related topics on my blog. Well, it’s a real estate website after all. So …