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Is It The Private Sector’s Job To Build Affordable Housing?

Toronto Realty Blog

TorontoRealtyBlog I’ll be honest: I wasn’t sure how to begin today’s blog post. “It’s not the job of the private sector to build affordable housing.” “There’s not enough affordable housing in Toronto.” ” Affordable how? And affordable to whom?

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Federal Government Promises: A Surefire Way To Heat Up The Market!

Toronto Realty Blog

Regardless, if the government is going to provide something new for “free,” that means it has two options on how to go about doing so: 1) Increase revenue. How in the world did the government expect to pay for that? If you’re not cutting public services, then you’re raising taxes.

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Is AirBnB Exacerbating The Housing Crisis?

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TorontoRealtyBlog What does it mean to be free ? But I would like to introduce the concept of “freedom” as we delve into the debate about how and if the prevalence of AirBnB rentals is exacerbating the housing crisis in Canada. How we allowed this to happen, I can’t figure out. Freedom of choice.

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Monday Morning Quarterback: The Renters Bill Of Rights

Toronto Realty Blog

You just can’t look away. That’s how I’ve felt about the 2024 national budget for the last few weeks, and while the budget won’t be released until April 16th, I’m already anxious about it. How did we ever manage before? TorontoRealtyBlog You know that saying about the slow car-wreck ?

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Increasing Development Charges Will Drive Condo Prices Higher!

Toronto Realty Blog

Perhaps this could have been included in Monday’s blog as a third tenet, except that this isn’t “new legislation,” nor is it going to kill condominium development. How about that, eh? TorontoRealtyBlog. May I please use a sports analogy here? That’s exactly what happened. in 2003-04 to a whopping 3.29

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How to Reduce Your Interest Rate: Mortgage Buydowns

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This blog post contains contributions from Penrith Home Loans. When mortgage rates are up, prospective buyers can often feel like they’re at a disadvantage as they go about securing a home loan. Fortunately, there are ways to lower your interest rate to make your monthly mortgage payments more affordable.

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Monday Morning Quarterback: Now THIS Is The Tipping Point!

Toronto Realty Blog

I just kept putting it off, like at 10:15pm on Wednesday night when you know you have to take the garbage out, but you’re too tired to get off the couch, and the longer you wait, the more likely you are to forget, or convince yourself you can do it in the morning. Trust me folks, I did not want to write about this. But then what?

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