The origins of the National Certification Program (NCP) for home inspectors stretch back to 1997 when a report was issued by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) that uncovered noteworthy inconsistencies in the skill and diligence of home inspectors across the country that still persist today. With the support of CMHC, Human Resources and Social … Read more
The Canadian Real Estate Association provides a monthly overview of the housing market in Canada. CREA compiles statistics of properties sold through MLS and tracks market trends for prices and properties sold. According to a recent report in The Ottawa Citizen, CREA president Calvin Lindberg projects the average selling price of homes in Canada will … Read more
A personal tribute to “My Hero”… Today is Monday, July 14, 2008. Twenty eight years ago quite early in the morning of Monday, July 14, 1980, I sat on the south of Lakeshore Blvd at the base of Walkers Line in Burlington, Ontario. In full view was an image now indelibly cast in my memory … Read more
Over the weekend I read in the Vancouver Sun how a retired Richmond homeowner lost title to his bungalow to con artists. The fraudsters also got away with a mortgage scam worth $400,000. The failure of the banks, lawyers, land title office, etc., to verify both parties to the transaction is scandalous in itself. Since … Read more
The mls.ca public web site, which is now one of Canada’s most popular web sites, is sponsored by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) and was launched in 1996. As the Internet research gateway to all residential real estate in Canada, the mls.ca web site attracts an average of about three million unique visitors each … Read more