invis-admin

10 things every first-time homebuyer should know Finances aren’t the only consideration Sept. 1, 2017 The Star The key issue for first-time buyers is how much they have to put down and what price point is affordable. But there are other important considerations when you’re making that all-important first home purchase. Tara Kelly, marketing manager of Mattamy Homes’ GTA division

Read more

Pay down these 3 debts now to save your retirement Katie Young, CNBC If you’re about to retire, the last thing you need is a lot of bills. Over the past 30 years, American families have taken on increasing amounts of debt, even as incomes failed to keep pace. About 80 percent of American households now have some form of

Read more

Identity theft alert: How mortgage fraudsters left this Canadian with a bank lien on her $1M+plus property If a group of fraudsters are working 50 or even a 100 names at a time in a loan scam, and they are successful in 20 or even 10 per cent of the cases, “it is highly, highly lucrative” Lukrezia Buzanic has lived

Read more

How to turn social media engagement into real sales Social media is great for audience engagement and brand awareness, but it takes a special touch to translate buzz into revenue Sep 14, 2017 Pictures of organic onesies and teeny-tiny Chuck Taylors draw plenty of “likes” on Instagram, Alyssa Kerbel has found. But the CEO of Toronto-based clothing retailer Mini Mioche

Read more

A down payment with a catch: you have to give up the spare bedroom Loftium startup gives buyers money for purchase, takes share of your Airbnb rental “If only we had the down payment” may be one of the most frequent complaints among aspiring homebuyers everywhere. Yifan Zhang, a 29-year-old entrepreneur who often hears this lament among her friends, has

Read more

What your real estate agent has to tell you about your home’s past Michael Shulman,Yahoo Finance Canada   Just over 22 years ago, Paul Bernardo was convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of teenagers Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy. Those horrific crimes took place in a small pink home on 57 Bayview Drive, in St. Catharines, Ont. Later, the

Read more

5 Best Tips For Salespeople by Gary Vaynerchuk  Sept 6 2017 I guess what I want to really drill home is I just don’t understand how in 2017 people don’t realize that if they’re not producing written content, audio, or video for these 15 platforms, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Medium, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc. I

Read more

Big banks hike prime rates after Bank of Canada tightens monetary policy CBC In the wake of the Bank of Canada’s move Wednesday to boost a key interest rate, Canada’s big banks have boosted their prime rates. RBC was first off the mark, followed quickly by the others, raising their prime rates to 3.2 per cent from 2.95 per cent, where they had

Read more

Boomers holding tight, not moving into retirement homes until their 80s: report Not so fast. Canadian seniors are a long way from ready for retirement homes. Only a small percentage of younger seniors are opting for some type institutional setting but a tsunami is coming when they hit 80. Millennials hoping for a break in the housing market as seniors

Read more

Canada’s cooling experiment One year ago, a foreign-buyers tax went into effect in Metro Vancouver. A flurry of housing reform has followed, designed to tame Canada’s frothy markets. Have the moves succeeded? Janet McFarland reports on the aftermath and what’s ahead Canada’s housing sector has been whipsawed by policy changes over the past year as governments have tried to cool overheated

Read more