I don’t want to sound like a real estate agent or anything, but now’s the time to buy! I guess it seems like we’re always saying that, so it’s a bit of a “cry wolf” scenario when the market really does start to offer some opportunities. Well folks, the last few weeks have seen a…

More of the same it seems. Of all the residential income properties that hit the market over the past few weeks, most of them have already traded and in many cases over the asking price. This speaks to continued low interest rates fuelling the buyer demand and the overall desirability of income properties in Central…

Whilst there has been a lot of talk about the Toronto real estate market slowing down, it hasn’t really happened with income properties in the Central core as yet. I expect properties that do not generate sufficient cash flow will not continue to trade as quickly as they have over the past two years. Prudent…

This month I’d like to spend some time discussing two of the most often misunderstood facets of the income property business & fire retrofit legislation and the issue of legal duplexes/triplexes, etc. I’d like to thank Paul Schuster, one of Toronto’s leading retrofit experts, for his contributions to this month’s column. If you have any…

The Toronto real estate market continues to chug along as we head into last couple months of 2009.  The sales numbers from 2008 to 2009 show vast percentage increases, but remember that last year at this time we were in an abnormally slow period.  With all the news of a global recession, the market effectively…