Real estate insights, tips, and market updates.
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Buy in the City of Toronto and you pay land transfer tax twice, once to Ontario and once to the city. Here is the bracket math at real Toronto asking prices, plus both first-time buyer rebates.
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Toronto charges 3% of assessed value on homes left empty six months or more, and every owner must declare each year. Here are the rules, the exemptions, and what a buyer inherits at closing.
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Burnaby's 1,097 active condos run from $689 to $986 per square foot by area, and two homes in one tower can be 75 percent apart. The breakdown by neighbourhood and by building.
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Surrey has 102 active court-ordered sales, $161,000 to just under $12 million. The count by neighbourhood, the four areas holding everything under $500,000, and how BC's court process works.
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All four major BC portals show the same MLS listings. What separates them is price history, expired listings, filters, strata data, and who actually pays the bills.
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Canadians moving from Calgary or Toronto are not foreign buyers, and the taxes that apply are not the ones most people worry about. Here is what actually changes when you buy in BC.
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Vancouver West has 900 listings under $900,000 and not one detached house. Mission has 221 and 88 are detached. Same budget, a completely different home, across 25 regions.
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Only 8% of active BC listings hold an open house. What that scarcity tells you, when the sessions actually run, and what to check in the twenty minutes you are inside.
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Ladner detached homes sold in a median 14 days, Tsawwassen detached in 27. Two neighbouring South Delta communities with near-identical asking prices and very different behaviour.
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Port Coquitlam detached homes sold for $523,000 less than Port Moody's between April and June 2026. Here is what every property type costs, and which areas fit which budget.
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Langley detached homes ask $1,859,000 and sell for $1,440,000. We use our own MLS sold data to explain the $419,000 gap, and where the real volume sits.
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Port Moody townhouses sold above the city's asking median and in 17 days flat. Here is what 336 active listings, a $999,000 median and $818 per foot condos mean for buyers in 2026.
