When 263 Wright Avenue, in Toronto’s leafy west end, hit the market last Spring, it was sad. Vacant. Neglected. The listing agent said it must sell in an “As is, Where is” state. The pitch: “Attention ...

Two things. First, loans can be financed over 30 years, instead of 25. That starts in mid-December. To qualify you must (a) be a first-time buyers and, (b) be gullible. Alternatively, simple financial ...

'The prices went up $50,000 last night...' ...and here's why we all should care. Does Garth Turner hate Toronto? Or just realtors? was the intriguing title of an ...

This, says Tennysen in Vancouver, is “the illusion of demand.” How elegant. How concise. The real estate and development industry doing all it can to conceal that market fundamentals are changing by ...

You know the news. The guy vows a 25% tariff on all Canadians (and Mexican) stuff on Day One of his vaunted ascendancy to the ...

Welcome to the whine-and-sheesh edition of GreaterFool. We’ll get to some of the moaning in a moment. First a brief update to yesterday’s heretical post about US interest rates rising in 2015. When ...

In case you missed it, our American friends grew their economy at a 3.9% rate in the third quarter of the year. That came after a 4.3% jump in the previous three months. This was the best six-month ...

Some days ago Dominique Walker, 34, and Sameerah Karim, 41, and their kids broke into a three-bedroom suburban home in Oakland, California. Actually they moved in. Squatters. The two have founded an ...

Quietly, days ago, the feds let slip the mount you can put into a TFSA next year. No surprise. It remains at $5,500, or eleven grand for a couple. That means you and your squeeze, so long as you were ...

I’m not quite old enough to remember Jimi Hendrix’s groundbreaking 1967 album release, but I’m old enough to be celebrating this week my 10th anniversary with Turner Investments and my 25th ...