The Ravi Singh Team

As status symbols go, they don’t have as much flash as a sports car, but high-end househunters are looking for a different kind of luxury in Toronto’s top neighbourhoods these days — two laundry rooms.

The well-heeled are also seeking out swimming pools — no matter how tiny — as well as home-office/homework rooms where the ...

Talk to real-estate agents, and most express disbelief at how the Toronto market keeps defying the doomsayers month after month.

What’s fuelling it? Those bargain-basement mortgage rates keep affordability in line, even as prices have risen, says Toronto Real Estate Board analyst Jason Mercer.

Factor in the number of potenti ...

If the recently launched INDX project in the heart of Toronto’s financial district is any indication of the state of the city’s condo market, then this year could prove to be even more bullish than last as the core continues to creep toward the heavens.

INDX is among some 27 new condo projects that have launched ...

Canderel’s sleek new condo building sprouting from the ground at Yonge and Gerrard Sts. has a title that’s just waiting to be toppled — Canada’s tallest residential building.

When all 78 storeys are complete, Aura will tower 272 metres and — for a while at least — surpass everything in the city except the CN Towe ...

After just under three weeks on the market and two failed offers, my husband and I sold our two-bedroom condo in Scarborough for $250,000.

We owe about $129,000 on the mortgage which leaves us with $121,000 in equity.

Related: How home closing costs can add up

After paying the 5 per cent commission and HST ...

Canadian Real Estate Prices are Falling - Not the Sky
By David Olive
www.thestar.com

Everything in moderation.

Recent homebuyers can’t be cheered by forecasts of a looming slump in house prices so soon after paying record prices in what may be the tail end of a 13-year-long Canadian housing boom.

But hold the Prozac.

First, while house prices are widely forecast to soften this year, no one’s ...

Lawrence Park — the richest neighbourhood in Canada — has the highest standardized test scores in Toronto, according to a new ranking by a local real estate company.

Realosophy, a real estate brokerage in Leslieville, recently started ranking desirable neighbourhoods according to school performance. Their latest offering is a top 10 list of Toronto areas ranked by how well elementary school ...

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is predicting the Canadian housing market will remain fairly stable this year and next, with little change from 2011 in prices, new home construction and sales of existing homes.

The national housing agency said Monday in its first-quarter 2012 report that the foreseen stability stems from an ec ...

The Canadian Real Estate Association has launched a new system for tracking home and condo sales prices aimed at giving buyers and sellers a more precise picture of what’s happening right in their neighbourhoods.

The new system will track Canadian and regional home sales and price escalations based on “benchm ...

Low interest rates, and low inventories of houses for sale, helped push house prices up almost 9 per cent across the GTA this January over last, according to statistics released by the Toronto Real Estate Board Friday.

The average sale price across the GTA hit $463,534 in January. But average price o ...