Anything over $1M has dropped quite a bit.

The worst now is that people who put their house up thinking it is worth what it was 2 years ago. I put in a couple of market value offers for the area and they rather be wheeled out of their in a body bag than to sell for what market value is now.

My place dropped about $100k from the peak....the area I am looking at dropped $300k. Getting into that area still almost triples my mortgage. Still have sticker shock at what 2 car garage house cost in Markham.

You going to unionville?

Closer to grandma care around kennedy and 16.

Closer to grandma care around kennedy and 16.

Closer to grandma care around kennedy and 16.

Yep, live one street over from cousins/uncles/etc. Not going anywhere, village life!

Should be able to get a deal done. Unless the offers are too unrealistic XD

List was $1.2....it has been empty for a year. We offer just that to go in for the kill. We get rejected. They delisted the house because they didn't get "their price".

You are slowly turning yellow by staying in MarkHAM LOL

So my mom gives my bro $100k for a deposit for his house and co-signs for his mortgage. He works at Shoppers Drug Mart making slightly more then minimum wage and cant really afford the house he bought without her.

Now, when she eventually dies, am I entitled to her equity in his home since she has stake in part of it?

Full yellow, integrated af. Ni hao ma? Markham

I am eyeing a 1.24 acre property less than a km from me (they listed it for sale twice for an astronomical price, delisted both times now sitting off the market), but not sure i can swing the cash hit No upper uville here, although unionville proper does look appealing Love me some secluded lots.

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Ask ender_1M how much fun he had with a heritage home. Or follow his thread in OT

Not sure what this means? Guy is building a house and going through the regular builder stuff, nothing out of the ordinary unless I am missing something?

Took them a year to sell, started at $1.8M+ and ended up selling for $1.528M after a year LOLOLOL

I'm pretty sure, his experience is far from regular builder stuff. He is dealing with a heritage home with many stipulations. From what I recall in his thread, and I didn't study it to length, he went through a number of hurdles, expenses and grief dealing with a heritage home that had to be preserved. I'm not saying it wasn't worth it, but I didn't see it as a typical build from the ground up, even when you consider the challenges that come with a new build.

So the news is telling me that bidding wars are picking up in the GTA again.

Where?

Not yet...its kinda a risky business but our house is worth around $800k so it is easier to get rid of vs a $1M+....if we get a good deal on the big house, don't mind setting my house low....can't always have it both ways.

does not compute

The tenants of a semi-detached house in Toronto’s east end could be forced from their rental homes after a 1 per cent stake of the property, at a cost of $9,000, was transferred to a 20-year-old first-time homebuyer.

With that sliver of ownership, Jacky Bai Jun Liu also acquired the title of landlord and as such, seven people in two apartments in the house were informed, he would be pursuing his legal right to push them out because he intended to move into the home near Danforth and Greenwood Aves.

The bulk of the east-end house, 99 per cent, belongs to George Chiang and Harriet Ho-Yin Chung, who bought the home for $230,000 in 2001, property records show. It is one of 17 houses the pair own in Old Toronto. The couple, according to their personal websites, are members of both the Canadian and Hong Kong arts communities.

A transfer document from the Land Registry Office dated June 18 shows that spouses Chiang and Chung transferred a 1 per cent interest to Liu, identified as a first-time homebuyer, worth $9,000.

When we had flooring installed in our basement we knew we wanted something durable as our kids would be playing down there and wreaking havoc so we went with a Canadian made laminate that we found at Rona for a great price (I think it may have been on sale at the time). If memory serves me correctly it was 14mm and rated AC3 which is the first level rated for residential use with heavy traffic but is also suitable for commercial with moderate traffic.

A2B if you're at all interested let me know and I'll see if I can dig up the details.

Not sure if something is lost in translation, but if that's what your contractor said he is full of shit. The only thing ikea kitchens require sometimes are custom end cabinets if their pre existing uppers/lowers don't add up to the exact length you want. I had that for my 2nd ikea kitchen and had to make 1 custom end cabinet to get an extra 8" of counter top space and meet the end of a wall.

Ikea makes great kitchens, however the only real reason to go this route is if you are going to assemble all the cabinets yourself as that's where the savings are compared to "custom" - assembly takes a long time. Ikea's quality is also better than a lot of "custom" stuff I've seen and even mid level builder grade. They use good materials and their process is solid, they can take a beating and you can easily replace pieces if something was to happen to a door.

Your contractor also can't mark up an ikea kitchen so that's why he won't want to use it.

If you aren't doing any of the work yourself then go with whatever the contractor recommends, hopefully you can hold him accountable to it and he can't use any excuse like "you didn't use my guy, so here is your shitty end product" type of thing.

Landlord who bought 1 per cent stake in a house withdraws eviction notice — then promptly issues a new one[