by Rick Crouch | May 19, 2022 | Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General, Real Estate Statistics
Both Buyers and Sellers expect and depend on the information that we are real estate professionals provide them about the real estate market. Whether it’s pricing, property taxes, zoning, a specific neighbourhood/area and or other critical information,...
by Rick Crouch | Apr 12, 2022 | Business Matters, Municipal Affairs, Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General
One of the many issues that many of us as REALTORS® have dealt with over the years is short term rentals which are generally defined as rental periods of less than 30 consecutive days. CBC news has published an article about the impact short term rentals are having...
by Rick Crouch | Apr 6, 2022 | Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General, Real Estate Market Activity, Real Estate Statistics
While real estate activity in the Southern Georgina Bay area has continued to remain strong in 2022, sales in the 1st quarter have dropped slightly compared to this time last year. Year-to-date total MLS® dollar volume in the 1st quarter of 2022 was $607.8 million...
by Rick Crouch | Apr 1, 2022 | Business Matters, Politics, Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General
On Wednesday (March 30th) the Ontario government announced a number of new initiatives aimed at cooling off the hot housing market with the overall goal of making homes more affordable for consumers. One of the steps in the proposed new legislation was to increase...
by Rick Crouch | Mar 28, 2022 | Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General, Real Estate Statistics
It is a well known fact that Canadian residential real estate has seen an meteoric rise in value following the last recession we went through in 2007 through early 2009. When reporting on residential home sales, the media typically focuses on the strength of the...
by Rick Crouch | Mar 23, 2022 | Real Estate Financial, Real Estate General, Real Estate Statistics
In a recent meeting with some fellow real estate colleagues the following scenario was posed: “If someone was to ask you what the spring real market is going to look like how will you respond?” Normally that would be a pretty simple question to address but these are...