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  1. CMHC explores cutting red tape for self employed borrowers

    Joanna SmithREP The national housing agency is exploring ways to make it easier for entrepreneurs and new immigrants to buy a home by cutting some of the red tape required to prove they can afford to pay the mortgage. “Right now, under our mortgage insurance policies, you have to be able to document income to […]

  2. 1990 was the last time owning a home was this unaffordable

    Steve RandallCanadian Real Estate Wealth Owing a home continues to be elusive for many Canadians as affordability remains a major challenge. In fact, due to the heat in the Toronto and Vancouver markets in particular, you’d have to go back almost 30 years to 1990 to find a time less affordable than now according to […]

  3. Five ways to maximize your investment property

    Neil SharmaCanadian Real Estate Wealth Wasim Elafech of Century 21 Bravo Realty in Calgary is among the banner brokerage’s top sales agents in the world. Century 21 operates in 78 countries with over 100,000 agents, and Elafech managed to become their number one unit producer in 2015 and number three in Canada last year, so […]

  4. B.C. Supreme Court rejects condo-building sale attempt

    Dissenting owners convince judge that strata did not follow Bill 40 process Glen Korstrom Business in Vancouver A group of condominium owners won a huge court victory over their neighbours September 21 when BC Supreme Court Justice Warren Milman dismissed an attempt by a larger group of owners to wind up their strata corporation and […]