David Yeoman's (daveyeoman) Blog

A modest home, a front path lined with flowers, smoke coming from the chimney, and yes -- a tree. We all have our favourites - trees to hold a swing, to provide shade, to fill a view, to freshen the air, or just to send our eyes skyward.Trees are embedded in our human imagination. We'll be coming...

Wouldn't spring-cleaning be so much more gratifying if - somewhere under dusty barbecue parts and outgrown hockey skates - you found an envelope with, say, $5000 in cash? Wouldn't that make spring-cleaning worthwhile? Of course it would!Well, you may not uncover a financial windfall when you're c...

It's smart to speed up the process. If you have a 25-year mortgage for $300,000 at an average rate of 5.75 per cent, you'll pay $262,500 in interest. Here are six ways to pay off your mortgage in record time. 1. Buy what you can affordEven if you're pre-approved for a big mortgage, look for a les...

Certainly not intended to insult any members of the Van Gogh family.His dizzy aunt ------------------------------------------- Verti GoghThe brother who ate prunes ------------------------------ Gotta GoghThe brother who worked at a convenience store ------ Stop n GoghThe grandfather from Yugosla...

TORONTO, March 8, 2007 - More than 1 million renters say they're confident in the Canadian housing market and plan to become homeowners, according to new data released by Genworth Financial Canada, a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE:GNW). The inaugural edition of Genworth's First-Time...

Canada News Wire TORONTO - In a bid to stave off concerns, a Canadian mortgage industry association called the domestic mortgage market "a picture of health," compared with the United States, where default rates have jumped in the higher-risk subprime mortgage segment and forced some U.S. lenders...

CNW / Canada News Wire - National home sales increased in almost every province during the month of January, fuelling continued demand for flexible mortgage options that make buying a home easier for Canadians. In an ongoing effort to meet the needs of today's mortgage consumer Mortgage Intellige...

More Canadians than ever are purchasing second homes. No longer the purview of the wealthy, second home ownership has gone mainstream. For many Canadians, it's the dream of a summer cottage, golf retreat or a winter chalet.  For others, career or family demands fuel the desire for a second home: ...

"Where the heck does it all go?" You're looking at your T4 slip from last year... or maybe your most recent pay stub. Sure, many people wish that those numbers after the dollar sign were a little higher, but it's the vanishing act that alarms you most. Tax time is especially sobering; you can see...

More than a decade ago, trend spotters began to tell us about the future trend of "cocooning". They predicted that decorating magazines, home renovation businesses and luxury home fashions and furnishings would see a big boom. But in 1991, we continued to look outside the home for our entertainme...