When we last looked at the outlook for the Toronto housing market at the end of 2019, the coronavirus had not yet spread to North America, affecting citizens en masse. More than a year later, uncertainty around the impact of the pandemic persists, but there are reasons to believe that the light at the end of the tunnel will increase in brightness as we move farther into the spring season of 2021 after a troubling fall in national sales.

Buying a house can be an exciting and challenging experience. It’s a major purchase that usually involves a few different parties with competing priorities: the seller, the real estate agents, and the buyer.

There’s something about even the term of a ‘B’ mortgage lender that can elicit mild concern, which is natural, but knee-jerk: After all, ‘B’ comes after ‘A,’ so doesn’t it imply something second rate?

You want to be fit, to have endurance and speed.  But you want to gain muscle as well.  Can you do both?  Yes, you can.  Even though the experts don’t all agree on this idea of balance, I, Larry Weltman, believe it can be achieved.