Categories for First Time Home Buyers

At What Price Will That Home Sell?

In a market in which homes are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars above the asking prices, how is anyone supposed to anticipate the selling price of a home? In this blog post I explain how I form my opinion about a selling price, and how the process often ...

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Choosing Your Real Estate Sales Representative

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Typical One-Time Expenses of Buying a Home

Buying a home involves both one-time costs and ongoing home ownership expenses. Let’s take a closer look at the one-time costs. These include your down payment, land transfer taxes, legal fees and disbursements including title insurance, mortgage appraisal, home inspection, adjustments for property taxes and utilities, HST on mortgage insurance ...

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New First Time Home Buyer Incentive from the Federal Government

Assuming that our upcoming federal election (or anything else for that matter) does not change anything, we can count on the new first time home buyer incentive program to begin accepting applications on September 2, 2019 (with the first available closing date of November 1, 2019). The new incentive will ...

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Determining What You Can Afford

Money: What Do You Have and What Can You Borrow? Determining the type of home that you can afford to purchase involves figuring out how much money you have for your down payment and the mortgage loan that is available to you. The down payment is the largest cash cost ...

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Home Buyers. Want to Chat over Coffee?

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8 Major Steps to Buying a Home: Step 8: Hiring a Lawyer

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8 Major Steps to Buying a Home: Step 7: Fulfilling Conditions

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8 Major Steps to Buying a Home: Step 6: How to Make an Offer

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8 Major Steps to Buying a Home: Step 5: Understanding the Elements of an Offer

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