When 263 Wright Avenue, in Toronto’s leafy west end, hit the market last Spring, it was sad. Vacant. Neglected. The listing agent said it must sell in an “As is, Where is” state. The pitch: “Attention ...

Two things. First, loans can be financed over 30 years, instead of 25. That starts in mid-December. To qualify you must (a) be a first-time buyers and, (b) be gullible. Alternatively, simple financial ...

You can hide a million bucks in your RRSP, and escape the long arm of the CRA. You and your squeeze can shelter almost $150,000 as of January in your TFSAs, and Bill Morneau’s sticky singers will ...

Mars and Venus. Do men and women really think so differently when it comes to money and financial security? Are you kidding? Of course they do. At least according to the leading financial dudettes.

'The prices went up $50,000 last night...' ...and here's why we all should care. Does Garth Turner hate Toronto? Or just realtors? was the intriguing title of an ...

This, says Tennysen in Vancouver, is “the illusion of demand.” How elegant. How concise. The real estate and development industry doing all it can to conceal that market fundamentals are changing by ...

I need safety in retirement. Pretty standard investor thinking. In fact, a recent Mackenzie Investments poll of more than 1,600 Canadians indicated that 71% of working Canadians think that retirement ...

You know the news. The guy vows a 25% tariff on all Canadians (and Mexican) stuff on Day One of his vaunted ascendancy to the ...

In case you missed it, our American friends grew their economy at a 3.9% rate in the third quarter of the year. That came after a 4.3% jump in the previous three months. This was the best six-month ...

Yesterday’s tome about kid buyers getting scorched in a falling real estate market is, well, a harbinger. That swamp called Reddit is rife with such tales of terror ...