Canada and International Housing Markets

November 24th, 2009

The world’s housing markets
are showing signs of recovery.
photo by "pah"

The world’s housing markets are showing signs of recovery. The numbers differ from country to country and some are more optimistic than other. In most countries, it’s still much cheaper to rent a house than to buy one of equal size and quality. This is a consequence of a low rent price and a high mortgage rate.

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Are we nuts?

October 17th, 2009

Real Businesses Have Curves by Kevin Dooley

Business journalist Garth Turner has been calling to vultch the USA real estate market in several of his articles as have many other economic advisors.

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HST Changes for New Home Buyers

July 6th, 2009

With new changes, buyers of all new homes will receive a 75% rebate on the 8% “provincial portion” of the HST on the first $400,000 of the cost.

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