From controversial housing plans to strong mayor powers to billions of dollars in new highway investments, Premier Doug Ford earned his fair share of development-related headlines this year, making him STOREYS’ 2022 Real Estate Newsmaker of The Year. Ford began 2022...
"The biggest financial transaction of one’s life – buying or selling a home – deserves the expertise of a REALTOR® with the highest professional standards, and that is what the Ontario Government delivered when it passed the Trust in Real Estate Services Act (TRESA)...
President Bill Clinton sat down for more than hour for a conversation at the Ontario Real Estate Association’s special 100th-anniversary get-together at Exhibition Place last week. Click here to read all about it.
The province in a media release sets out the new proposed More Homes, Built Faster Act, and, if passed, that will set out sweeping changes for municipalities and conservation authorities. The plan contains around 50 actions. Recently, the Ontario Real Estate...
The provincial government’s plan to build 1.5 million homes over the next decade “is just what the doctor ordered” to address the housing crisis, the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) says. If passed, the More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 will ensure cities,...
During the 2021 federal election, and again in the Ontario provincial election earlier this year, housing was a major point of focus — if not, the most important point of focus, for voters and candidates alike. Now in the 2022 municipal election season, the issue has...
There’ve been some ahead-of-schedule developments for the Mayor’s Housing Task Force, council was told on Tuesday night in Cornwall. In an update on recommendations to be completed before the end of 2022, several had a time frame completion aim of November, and “we’re...
The housing affordability crisis is a growing problem across Canada, one that is disproportionately affecting BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities who experience higher barriers to housing attainment due to historically discriminatory practices and social injustices that...