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Common questions homebuyers ask about real estate and mortgages
Plus, tools to help you take that first step towards homeownership
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How private lenders and debt-crazed homebuyers are pushing Toronto’s real estate market to the brink
When banks won't deal with them, some homebuyers look elsewhere for mortgages
Life
The Bank of Mom and Dad: confessions of a propped up generation
It seems like every 30-something couple has an embarrassing financial secret: their boomer parents are covering their mortgages, child-care costs and other expenses
Real Estate News
The Smart Home Buyer’s Guide: how to trade up at every stage of life
Whether buying a starter home, a bigger house or a condo for retirement, every real estate investment comes with a host of unique...
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Five things we learned about first-time homebuyers from the
Globe and Mail
March, April and May are the housing market’s biggest months, and real estate watchers are busy prognosticating whether...
City News
The Celtic Invasion: why the arrival of hundreds of Irish construction workers benefits Toronto’s building boom
In the mid-1990s, companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Apple, attracted by Ireland’s well-educated workforce, tax...
Real Estate News
Why the next few years could be very good for first-time home buyers
In today’s Globe and Mail, personal finance columnist Rob Carrick has some good news for those who have been trying without...
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Real Estate News
What bubble? RBC says Toronto condo’s market won’t crash
The city’s condo boom may be keeping both Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney up at night, but...
Real Estate News
Will Canada’s new mortgage rules zap Toronto’s condo boom?
We’ve been wondering what the new federal mortgage regulations will mean for Toronto’s real estate market (especially since...
Real Estate News
Ottawa tightens up mortgage rules to calm the hot, hot housing market
The runaway real estate market in Canadian cities (and whispers and shouts of bubble trouble) is worrying Finance Minister Jim...
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City News
Toronto’s housing forecast according to Garth Turner, the Dr. Doom of real estate
If the Toronto real estate market has nine lives, so, too, does its most famous prophet of doom, Garth Turner. Over a 40-year...
City News
Home Free: the advantages of swapping your mortgage for a lease
After years of crushing mortgage payments and escalating maintenance costs, one homeowner sold her house and signed a lease on a...
City News
Justin Bieber has been denied a mortgage, so he is currently without a love nest
We had caught wind that Justin Bieber was house hunting, and it appears he has finally found the home he’d like to make...
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Ludicrously low rates are going up, signalling an end to the mortgage wars (maybe)
The rock-bottom mortgage rates that have characterized Canadian real estate of late are going up, which could help ease...
City News
Why Roger Martin believes the corporate world needs to be overhauled—starting with excessive CEO compensation
The head of Toronto’s most prestigious business school has a seditious idea, and it might save us from financial catastrophe...
Real Estate News
A series of shady real estate deals in The Junction points toward mortgage fraud
Lawyer Ron Allan Hatcher has been suspended for his role at the centre of some rather unorthodox home sales in the west end. In...
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Banks begin to agree: Toronto’s condo market is getting a little bubbly
We’ve been trying to sort out whether Toronto’s housing market is in the midst of an unprecedented bubble for awhile now. Some...
City News
The great burnout: recession survivors didn’t count on the surge in workload, the smaller paycheque and the all-consuming resentment. A story about workplace hell with no escape
It’s been three years since the mass cull of the Great Recession began. Three years since all those jobs were zapped into...
Real Estate News
BMO: Canada real estate market heading for bubble—but not Toronto
A new report out from BMO Capital Markets suggests that Canada is in increasing danger of a housing price collapse—especially if...
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Conservatives bring in new mortgage restrictions, suggest some Canadians can’t manage their money
Ottawa was abuzz with speculation this morning, when the feds announced an early press conference with Jim Flaherty . Was it to be...
City News
Canada ♥ regulation: banks will be asked to test their debt loads
After the news came out last week that Canadian debt levels were at an all-time high , it was probably inevitable that the feds...
Real Estate News
Mortgage brokers in Canada not totally useless, eh: Deloitte
For our neighbours down south, mortgage brokers have earned a reputation for being as ethical and competent as, well, the big...
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Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative