Skipping a mortgage payment: Pros and cons

When I logged on to check my bank balance the other day, I noticed a message from the bank saying that I have ‘earned’ a one month mortgage payment vacation. The reason for this  break is that I have been paying off my mortgage faster by making increased contributions each month. My goal is to […]

Home prices keep climbing, though gains are slowing

OTTAWA — A monthly measure of Canadian home prices showed that year-to-year gains continued in January, albeit at a slower pace than in December. The Teranet-National Bank house price index was up 6.5% from a year earlier. That was down from 6.8% in December. While the index showed some slowdown in the rise of prices, […]

Pot houses never shake the ‘stigma’ of their grow-op pasts

By Jason van Rassel CALGARY — Realtors are pushing for air quality standards to fill a regulatory vacuum involving former marijuana grow-ops put up for sale. How to protect the health — and the investment — of homebuyers is just one of the issues delegates from the real-estate industry, civic authorities and law enforcement, will […]

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