Very strange that the agent ask you to put an offer before seeing the home. Maybe this is the seller's request, but nothing like this for regular homes in GTA. My suggestion is to ask the agent if you can see the home without this crap, and find another agent that can help you bypass this step.

It's true that renew/relist thing can fool an outsider who only has access to mls.ca. But if you are keen, and ask a broker with access to torontomls.net, then you will see everything, list date, re-list date and duration, and previous bought prices, etc (except the 1st bought price from builder...

(TO fundamental is still strong), and (the confidence issue) are the only reasons sellers are hanging on to their high prices. I don't want to be mean, but this is my feeling. Usually, it's already too late once the facts come out, or when one fully understands the fundamental/situation. I...

See pdf in http://www.torontorealestateboard.com/consumer_info/market_news/news2009/pdf/nr011909.pdf See text below. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Media/Public Inquiries: Mary Gallagher, Manager Media Relations Toronto Real Estate Board 1400 Don Mills Road Toronto, ON M3B 3N1...

Yup. I am an owner of a smaller place. The smaller place should be ok, as I think I can sell it at slight higher price than when I bought it. If I were lucky, I might be able to recover the property tax cost from it.

Well, lets hope that housing prices stabilize by the end of this year, cuz I am going to buy a deteched home by then. Kind of a desperate buy for me cuz my babies are going to turn 1.5 years by end of this year. I was able to hold off my wife by showing her charts, news and some of the posts...

My guess is: 0.95 * 0.001

I am a charting freak and lately I have compiled detech housing price on N01, N03, N04, N05, data from TREB 1996-2008 Oct. (See attached xls) It's just an excercise for me to see when is a good time to buy. It's a pain just for me to enter the numbers for N01-N05 from TREB. I am wondering if...