10 ways the federal budget could affect your walletExperts have been speculating on capital gains tax changes for weeks. Here’s what to look out for.
How Canada’s big banks pumped up the housing bubbleThe banks earn big profits off soaring house prices, knowing that taxpayers will clean up the mess if the bubble pops. That has to change.
Why buy a city home when you can get a whole town instead?All over Canada, entire towns are listed for less than some small houses in the city—but owning one can come at a steep price
Britain wakes up to the end of home ownershipThe notion of home ownership has been close to the heart of successive British governments, but in the age of Generation Rent that dream has died
How a real estate developer’s efforts to silence a critic failedFortress’s defamation suit against an independent analyst over his tweets tested a new Ontario law protecting free expression in the public interest
B.C. boomers have lost their moral authority to judge MillennialsRecent events in the province illustrate why the popular boomer narrative that Millennials are an entitled bunch is so galling
What $300,000 buys you in Canada’s housing marketA look at the square-footage costs across 30 Canadian cities shows the difference in nationwide home prices
A new wave of tech startups might finally disrupt real estateOnline brokerages and splashy startups are using technology to improve the often hellish act of buying property—and change the role of realtors
Surviving foreclosure in Alberta: ’I thought I could do it’In Alberta, a combination of high house prices, soaring personal debt levels and a wave of job losses have pushed many into foreclosure
B.C. is desperate to keep its housing bubble aloft. It won’t work.Canada’s household debt is at record highs and a reckoning is coming. B.C.’s offer to further burden the most vulnerable borrowers will surely backfire