The “stress test” is back in the news. This time, it’s positive news, at least relative to its last few news releases.
This time, it means mortgages will be slightly easier to qualify for and that means borrowers will be able to spend slightly more on a house and still qualify for the mortgage.
You’re single. You’re thinking about buying a home. You’re uncertain, because it’s something you’ve never done. And because you’re single, any conversation about whether it’s a wise move starts like this:
“Self, what do you think?”
Here’s a couple of things you might like to inject in that one-way conversation:
Summer is often for one of two things: vacation or fixing up the house and yard. Since vacations can be somewhat abbreviated this year…you know what that leaves.
For the homeowner getting a home ready to list on MLS, there may not be a choice.
Fix-up time it is.
That sometimes raises major questions concerning how to give the house more “curb appeal...
It was the incomparable Mister Rogers who gave “neighbourhoods” their nicest definition, when he sang from the TV screen to little children: “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood…”
Mister Rogers has been gone for 17 years now but neighbourhoods will live forever. In real estate, clients are always in search of beautiful neighbourhoods for that...
The latest news from Hong Kong is that there is another Great Wall in the making.
They’re calling it the Great Firewall.
It's an apparatus that limits online activity in China and, now, Hong Kong.
According to an article in The Guardian the law “gives authorities the power to demand individuals and service providers remove content, or access to conten...