Our mortgage payments went up to more than $3,300 a month
It feels like we did everything right. And yet we can barely afford to start a family.
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Real Estate
An Ontario couple converted this 130-year-old church into a charming family home
“When this place popped up, it felt like the perfect renovation challenge”
Habitat: This vintage Ontario home combines retro space-age glamour with 21st-century perks
“The house is a little bit sassy, just like us”
For $2.4 million, you can buy this net-zero corrugated-steel home in Ontario
The one-of-a-kind property has a wood-burning stove and mezzanine loft
Habitat: A mid-century sanctuary by Ontario’s Chandos Lake
“The words we kept using were quiet and calm”
Habitat: A B.C. construction worker sold his country house to build this floating home
“I had a choice: remain chained to a mortgage, or take on this new challenge”
This woman saves $3,000 a month on rent living in a Vancouver co-op
“Nowadays, getting a spot in a Vancouver co-op is like winning the lottery”
For $4.8 million you can buy this nearly 400-acre historic Nova Scotia estate
The home was built by an American steel industrialist and recently refurbished by bookseller Nicholas Hoare
The Move: Two working parents trek from B.C. to N.B. in search of affordable childcare
An East Coast move relieved the Hingleys’ cumbersome daycare debt—and came with nice new neighbours
My mortgage payments rose almost $2,000 in a year
I don’t know what my family will do next