Purchase prices get the headlines. Monthly carry is what actually comes out of your bank account on the first of the month.

When buyers scroll Toronto condo listings, the filter is almost always set to price ceiling: under $700,000, under $800,000, under $1,000,000. It feels sensible and clean. The problem is that two condos listed at the exact same...

On offer night, everyone assumes the highest number wins. My buyer clients just proved that is not always true, and what happened tells you more about how sellers actually think than any pricing strategy could.

Their offer wasn't the top bid on the table. It was the second-highest of five. What tipped it in their favour was a letter.

The Reality of O...

Here's a number that surprises most people, including a lot of agents: pull the data on any month of Toronto listings old enough to have fully played out, and somewhere between 55 and 68 percent of them get taken off the market without ever selling under that listing. Call it two out of three. That's not a slow-month anomaly. It's held in that rang...