Macdonald Realty

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Thu. Jun 18 - 12:58 PM

OTTAWA — Canada has become a nation of home owners, according to the Bank of Nova Scotia.

A new Scotiabank report says a record 68.4 per cent of Canadian households owned their homes in 2006 and the number edged up even further in 2007.

That is a significant increase from the 63.6 per cent that owned their own homes a decade earlier.

As well, ...

Both the buyer & seller should understand that the brokerages providing agency services to the buyer and seller do not provide legal or other expert advice in matters beyong the common standard of care in the real estate industry. The parties have been advised to seek independent legal advice prior to executing this contract of purchase and sale.

The buyer needs to understand the signific ...

Get off the home owning fence
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I've had the same rent-versus-own discussion with a close friend of mine for years. Every now and then she'll see a new statistic from the Canadian Real Estate Association about where prices are headed and rethink the decision she made just months before.
My advice to her today is: it's time to get off the fence. Although mortgage rates rose last we ...

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