The Ottawa Real Estate Board has released their statistics for last month (March 2025) and it looks like while low interest rates are drawing in value-conscious buyers, inventory continues to creep up into buyers market territory which is creating a […]

I have divided my Market Update this month into two segments because there was just too much to talk about in one post.  As I mentioned in my previous post, the Ottawa real estate market is stable, leaning towards a […]

The Ottawa Real Estate Board has released the statistics for last month (Sept 2024).  The overall market is stable but heading further into “buyer’s market” territory, while mortgage rates are coming down and the Federal government has made some big […]

The Trudeau government has just today announced new changes to the mortgage rules that are intended to make homes more affordable for Canadians and also incentivize new homebulding. They introduced two significant changes: Increasing the cap for insured mortgages from […]

  Well the August numbers are in from the Ottawa Real Estate Board and in general the news is mostly good – prices are flat from August 2023, but interest rates are going down rapidly, and inventory is only slightly […]

There has been a lot of talk this week about the new changes to the Capital Gains tax announced by the Liberal government. Most of this talk is on the political side of things, and whether it’s a good idea […]