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If you are planning on selling your Mississauga Real Estate, Toronto Real Estate or Oakville On Real Estate in the future, you may be required to perform a mandatory home energy audit if Bill 101 The Home Energy Rating Act 2008, passes into law in the Ontario legislature. Voluntary Home Energy Au...

Home buyers', including first time home buyers' planning to buy Mississauga Real Estate, Toronto Real Estate or Oakville On Real Estate will face higher costs if Premier McGinty's recent out loud musings of harmonizing the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) with the Federal Goods and Service Tax (GST) co...

Home Sales To Fall The Canadian Real Estate Association is predicting the number of home sales to fall by almost 17% in 2009. And with that drop comes an expected 8% fall in prices.  The CREA expects the biggest declines to take place in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta.  What does This Mean...

If you are planning to sell Toronto Real Estate or Mississauga Real Estate Premier Dalton McGinty wants you to start paying Provincial Sales Tax on real estate commissions.McGinty mused out loud recently at a press conference that the Province was going to investigate the possibility of harmonizi...

It wasn't long ago that the Greater Toronto Area real estate market was humming along nicely. For the past 5-7 years prices were rising and when a "for sale" sign appeared it didn't take too long for it to be replaced with a "sold" sign.  New Agent or Experienced Agent People from all walks of li...