July 2020

Capital gains tax and real estate profits

Posted on Jul 27, 2020

Here's a story that's likely to prompt some discussion among homeowners:
Should there be a capital gains tax on profits from selling your principal residence?
Everybody's sure to have an opinion, and that includes The Financial Post, which a few days ago published this story on the subject:
What we'd like to know...

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What makes neighbourhoods beautiful

Posted on Jul 15, 2020 in Neighbourhoods

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...

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Hong Kong: time for watching and waiting

Posted on Jul 08, 2020 in Real estate market


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...

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