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Toronto Real Estate: Housing Crisis or Investment Opportunity?

January 29, 2018 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Click here to read the original article: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/01/18/Housing-Crisis-Really-About-Globalization/?utm_source=twitter TRANSCRIPT Andrew La Fleur: Now here's an interesting article from thetyee.ca written ... looks like it's written by an academic from University of British Columbia, so it's a bit of a different perspective. It's a longer article, but if you're interested in these things, I do recommend [...]

Why Isn’t Rent Control Controlling Rents??

January 29, 2018 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Click here to read the original article: http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2018/01/rent-control-supposed-make-renting-toronto-affordable-prices-soaring.html TRANSCRIPT Speaker 1: Rent Control. Is it working, is it not working? Well, so far it's definitely not working. It's doing exactly what I and many other people in the industry predicted, and that is it's actually driving up rents even more than they were before. Here's [...]

Here’s yet another reason why Toronto real estate prices are going to keep going up

January 22, 2018 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Read the original article here: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2018/01/allied-submits-plan-float-office-space-over-heritage-buildings TRANSCRIPT Speaker 1: Here's an interesting article in Urban Toronto. It's going over a recent proposal from Allied. Allied submits plan to float office space over Heritage Buildings. In the ... around the King and Spadina area, Allied is proposing to build this commercial office building essentially on top [...]

The 1 big difference between the Toronto and Vancouver condo markets for Investors

January 22, 2018 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Click here to read the original article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rent-expensive-toronto-2018-1.4491949 TRANSCRIPT Speaker 1: Now, I do want you to look at this article here from the CBC. The headline is, "New year, same old expensive rent in Toronto. Why aren't we fixing this?" "New report says average rent for one bedroom in Toronto is now over $2,000 [...]

The surprise reason why Toronto is already the big winner of the Amazon HQ2 Sweepstakes

January 22, 2018 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Click here to read the original article: http://torontostoreys.com/2018/01/toronto-make-amazons-short-list-of-hq2-contenders/ TRANSCRIPT SO you gotta check out this article here from Toronto Storeys, about Amazon HQ2. Of course Amazon is looking for a second headquarters in North America, and they just released a short list. They've whittled it down from 238 potential cities, down to just 20, and [...]

Can Justin Trudeau stop you from buying real estate?

December 12, 2017 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Click here to read the original article: http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2017/12/bank-mom-dad-demand-prices-canadas-market.html TRANSCRIPT: Greetings, Condo Investors. Thanks for checking out this video. This article is from BuzzBuzzHome and the headline is, "Is the Bank of Mom and Dad Driving up Demand and Prices in Canada's Housing Market?" So, it's talking about the fact that they did a survey and [...]

Prices down 2% in Toronto. Time to panic?

December 12, 2017 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Read the original article here: http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2017/12/7-stats-show-torontos-november-surge-home-sales.html TRANSCRIPT: Hey there, condo investors. This article is from BuzzBuzzHome, and the headline is, 7 stats that show Toronto's November surge in home sales. So, breaking down some of the numbers from the month of November, we have the stats for the month of November. The big headline that [...]

Why you can’t afford a house in New York, Hong Kong…and Toronto?

December 12, 2017 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Read the original article here: http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2017/11/dream-canadian-homeownership-danger-cmhc.html TRANSCRIPT: Speaker 1: This article is from BuzzBuzzHome and the headline is The Dream of Canadian Homeownership is in Danger according to CMHC. The homeownership rate is starting to come down across the country. From 2011 to 2016, the rate came down slightly. What's interesting is that most of [...]

Toronto rental prices are soaring, but they are still cheap?

November 28, 2017 / by Andrew la Fleur / News, Videos

Click here to read the original article: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/photos/sorry-canada-home-rental-prices-slideshow-wp-154656367/ TRANSCRIPT: Here's an article from Yahoo Finance, and the headline is Sorry Canada, Your Home Rental Prices Aren't That Bad. So kind of a contrary headline there, we've been hearing a lot about how rental prices are so expensive in Toronto in particular, and certainly they've risen [...]

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