Bordering on historic, it seems. In a normal year 52% of new condo units hitting the presale market would be sapped up. Last ...

Here are some reasons the realtors who skulk among us think the worst is over. The bottom has been plumbed. The commission drought may be ending. First, inflation. A big drop last month, down to 6.3%.

The current betting is the Bank of Canada will take a pass on a rate cut two weeks from tomorrow. That means the earliest date variable mortgage rates could dip again is March 12th. Yup, right smack ...

If you don’t have enough down payment money to qualify for a traditional mortgage, the government forces you to buy mortgage insurance. This doesn’t insure you, instead it puts the government on ...

The plan was to dump the house on Vancouver Island and buy in Calgary. But Cam gave that one up when he learned how much money he’d already lost on the BC property. That sucked. So he made the ...

Los Angeles is on everyone’s mind at the moment. It’s apocalyptic. Over 10,000 homes incinerated – some of them among the ...

Monday’s layoffs weren’t massive. But they matter. The Globe and Mail is carving another 20 or so people from its editorial staff, while the National Post just punted half a dozen editors. Sun Media, ...

Jan 14, 2009 8:45NEW YORK _ Canadian telecom giant Nortel Networks (TSX:NT) files for bankruptcy protection in U.S. court, shares halted. As I suggested would happen, Nortel is bust. Now 30,000-odd ...

We married in uni. Then, off to a new city, a new campus. Dorothy enrolled in teacher’s college. I went into post-grad. My career path was headed for academia, until I awoke one day and couldn’t take ...