Two things. First, loans can be financed over 30 years, instead of 25. That starts in mid-December. To qualify you must (a) be a first-time buyers and, (b) be gullible. Alternatively, simple financial ...

‘The Donald’ has an odd fixation with sharks and being attacked by them. Remember that weird bit he did about his preference for being hypothetically electrocuted than dying from a shark attack. That ...

When 263 Wright Avenue, in Toronto’s leafy west end, hit the market last Spring, it was sad. Vacant. Neglected. The listing agent said it must sell in an “As is, Where is” state. The pitch: “Attention ...

For the past three years Sam’s worked for one of the biggest well-servicing companies in northern BC and Alberta. A good gig. Until now, of course. “When I started we had a base in 30 towns from Fort ...

This, says Tennysen in Vancouver, is “the illusion of demand.” How elegant. How concise. The real estate and development industry doing all it can to conceal that market fundamentals are changing by ...

Out of university I landed a summer job working the line at an office furniture factory. It was awful work—spraying industrial glue back and forth while standing all day next to an oven that kept the ...

'The prices went up $50,000 last night...' ...and here's why we all should care. Does Garth Turner hate Toronto? Or just realtors? was the intriguing title of an ...