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Will a Home Inspection Help Sell your Home Faster?

Usually, a home inspection is done after an offer is made to buy a home. The offer will typically include a condition that the property must pass such an inspection. The buyer then hires the inspector, who goes through the home, top to bottom, inside and out, looking for issues. However, ...

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Should You Buy a Home that Needs Work?

Imagine you find a home on the market that checks all the boxes. There’s only one issue. It needs work. Perhaps the paint has faded, or the kitchen is old, or there are repairs needed. Should you make an offer on that home? That depends on many factors, of course. The first ...

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The Other Side

As we await our turn (yes, take your turn!) for the vaccine and tread carefully through 2021 we could devote a bit of New Year thinking on where real estate fits in with our longer term plans. The oft mentioned Canadian “obsession with ownership” is not without merit, whether house or  ...

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The Mid-Pandemic Situation

I say mid-pandemic because the reopening of economies across the world is proceeding, albeit unevenly, the stock market is assuming the best for economic recovery and an early vaccine (assuming people will line up for it), empty-stadium professional sports is returning, and people are venturing out increasingly. However, like anything ...

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