When it comes to home prices vs. income, Canadians are like couples with mismatched libidos … Okay, bad analogy here. The truth is we got a real serious Mismatch: Income and Expense Volatility Are Undermining Households HARD FACTS Canadian homes prices are the 4th priciest in the world. Whereas Canadian income (GNI) ranked 11th in […]
Is there a relationship between Democracy and Real Estate?
Conservatives alledged Liberals aren’t liberal, sorry, undemocratic. Out of curiousity, we wonder if democracy is related to real estate? Or perhaps public housing? Does the following message provide any clue for thought as far as the hotter than hot housing market is concerned? Message from the Conservatives … “Making a mockery of our democracy What […]
Doomsayers: Canada’s housing market on the brink of severe downturn
Is the real estate market going down or going up? According to BNN and Business Insider, the Canadian housing market is on the brink of collapse. Canada’s housing market on the brink of ‘severe downturn,’ warns Capital Economics The hot housing markets in Vancouver and Toronto appear to be on the verge of a severe […]
How To Turn Your Fixer Upper Into A Dream Home
Home Renovation Anne Ruffolo and her husband were in their west-end Toronto home for about five years before deciding to pull the trigger on a big renovation. With three young children and a house in dilapidated condition, a friend of the Ruffolos says, the couple didn’t want to move up in the city’s crazily overheated real estate market […]
Tracking dirty money, show me the laundered money
Yep, tracking dirty money, and show me the laundered money … First thing first, Architecture Porn Mirrored ceiling makes this bookstore appear infinite in Hangzhou, China According Global News, Canada’s doors are ‘wide open’ for criminals to launder money in real estate Give us your criminal, your corrupt, your anonymous masses. Canada is sending to the […]
Housing Bubble – Big Freeze, Big Rip or Big Crunch?
Architecture Of The Day Ribbon Chapel. Onomichi, Japan Predicting the Housing Bubble is in a way very similar to predicting how our Universe will end. According to theoretical physicists the Universe could end between 2.8 billion and 22 billion years from now, but they can’t agree on its ultimate fate … How will the Universe end: Big Freeze, […]