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Mention the word safety to the average person in Toronto these days, and he or she is most likely to think about personal safety. Having seen two random, stupid killings on the streets this month alone, people naturally are nervous. But there’s a lot more to it than one’s personal safety as one walks down… Continue Reading
As the US housing market slowly recovered from the great housing recession that hit it in 2007, one of the two government-backed corporations that supports the residential mortgage market, known as Freddie Mac, devised a new way to measure how the housing market is performing. The people at Freddie Mac wanted to know whether the… Continue Reading
Not to make light of it, but this is the sixth year in a row, according to a CIBC poll, in which Canadians have named debt repayment as their number one priority for the coming year. Does this mean that the average Canadian household debt has been going down for the past six years? Think… Continue Reading
Reading the minutes of a condo board meeting would probably qualify as one of the more boring activities most people could imagine, a great aid for insomnia. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: interesting or exciting meetings usually signal trouble of some kind. Better dull and predictable than stormy and surprising. Once in a while, though,… Continue Reading
Look at any list of Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions for any given year and you can’t help but notice that they’re all pretty much the same. Lose weight. Get fit. Eat healthy. Quit smoking. Spend more time with the family. Learn to play a musical instrument. Learn a language. Drink less. Travel more. Any… Continue Reading
The year 2015 seems likely to go into the Toronto real estate record books for a number of reasons, including sheer volume of sales—likely to be more than 100,000 for the first time ever—and for prices. It was the year when the average price of a single detached home in the City of Toronto first… Continue Reading
Canada’s safe, sound banking system, its competitiveness, strong economy, and wealth of natural resources, make it a natural destination for Shariah-compliant investors. This is the view of a new report from the Toronto Financial Services Alliance and Thomson Reuters. The report, Canada Islamic Financial Outlook 2016, was unveiled at a World Islamic Banking Conference in… Continue Reading
If Christmas shopping is still a work in progress for you at this late date, why not make it a little easier on yourself and stop storming the malls. Instead, consider giving to charity in someone else’s name. Do you know someone who cares deeply about the fate of the African elephant, the polar bear… Continue Reading
The next big thing in the real estate industry, many believe, will be virtual reality, or VR. Not only can it save developers money, making it unnecessary for them to build expensive model suites to show potential buyers, but it can provide consumers with a whole new level of access to properties around the world. It’s… Continue Reading
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