With an election looming, Canada’s province of Ontario is moving to rein in surging home prices with populist measures like a bigger foreign-buyer tax, but economists warn rising interest rates are likely to do most of the work.  Already there are signs the red-hot markets are cooling after last month’s central bank

Real estate prices took a slight dip in the area in April from March, though the average home still sold for nearly $200,000 higher than a year ago, according to the Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors. On average, a home in the Kitchener-Waterloo area sold for $757,906 last month, which was

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are veering off a path to balance with an election budget loaded with billions of dollars in hospital, highway and transit investments. The document, set to serve as the Tory platform during a campaign expected to kick off next week, has the party projecting Ontario will be

Builders and developers must overcome myriad planning, zoning, and logistical hurdles as well as rustle through a lot of red tape, rules, and regulations to get residential projects built in Toronto. It all comes with a hefty price, of course. The more time and money a developer spends navigating the

One thing that all real estate investors are painfully aware of when they plan on owning a property is the capital gains tax. With the rules currently in place, you must pay capital gains taxes on the profits you make from the sale of a home or other real estate. This