Blog
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Climate Change Means Changes in Real Estate
The impacts of climate change are undeniable, and growing year after year. Since the 1950s, disaster loss insurance claims have doubled every five to 10 years, and in 2005, they approached $100 billion. As the majority of many Canadians’ equity is within the home they own, it’s imperative to protect that investment from extreme weather…
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Law, Order, and Real Estate
REALTORS® have an obligation to act in their clients’ best interests, whether they’re buying their first or dream home, or looking to be a tenant or landlord renting out an investment property. They have to act within the confines of the law, and that is where real estate lawyers can help. On a recent episode…
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TRREB Members Give You Reasons to Smile
Real estate professionals are determined to play meaningful roles across the Greater Toronto Area. There are no limits for how Jennifer Evelyn, Nancie Mcleod, Kelly Meek and Lina Risi serve their communities.
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Real Estate Professionals Coming Together
There’s strength in numbers, especially when volunteering with a shared goal in mind. TRREB Members Maria Kagan, Anna Shirazi, Anastasia Orlando, Rose Sorbera, Jen Dumitrescu, Kate Czaplinska and Angelica Banas are no strangers to team effort and collaboration.
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TRREB Members Turning Small Goals into Huge Successes
Stacey Bourbonnais, Jay Lough Hayes, Yin-Lynn Low and Suganya Koneswaran know first-hand how one idea can have a powerful outcome, especially when you rally up friends, family and colleagues to join you.
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The 2022 Rental Market Outlook
Buying and selling real estate has garnered a lot of media attention, especially with rising home prices both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rental market – and especially so in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) – has also seen its share of sweeping changes brought on or exacerbated by pandemic-induced shifts in the…
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The “New Normal” of the Post-Pandemic Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a fundamental shift in work in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), with a huge impact on the traditionally bustling downtown core of office buildings. Two years into the pandemic, with some semblance of “new normal” on the horizon, what can employers and employees expect about the changing nature of work? TRREB…
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Keeping up with the Consumers: Early 2022 Ipsos Polling
It’s an anxiety-inducing time for many Ontarians in these first couple of months of 2022. A continued pandemic, rising inflation, and climate challenges all lend to changes in spending behaviour for residents of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond. But how do worries at the forefront of our minds play out in the real…
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2022 Market Outlook: Supply is Critical
Demand in the GTA isn’t going away. Population is set to reach new levels and increasing housing supply remains a key solution to address affordability issues. TRREB’s highly-awaited 2022 Market Outlook & 2021 Year in Review is in its seventh year of sharing drivers and trends in the real estate market. This year’s report, The Post-Pandemic Future: Communities, Housing…
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New Year, New Homes
Lack of available housing supply continues to be the major challenge for affordability in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), whether we’re talking about ownership or rental housing. This presents the real estate market with unique challenges. What are some ways to address them? On a recent episode of TRREB’s Ready to Real Estate podcast, host and TRREB Chief…
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“The Holy Grail”: A Report on Supply and Housing Affordability
What makes Canadian cities like Toronto and Vancouver so expensive to live in? Analysts and pundits point to issues such as foreign investment and speculation, as well as housing supply restrictions. But, recent findings from a British Columbia-based expert panel show that the housing supply in Vancouver is uniquely less responsive to changes in demand…
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The Heart of What Members Do
For TRREB Members, giving back comes naturally. They’re connected to communities across the GTA and always ready to support their local charity, youth program, or food bank. Wasim, Julian, and Gary are doing just that. Wasim Jarrah has a profound passion for helping those in need, especially in York Region where he grew up.