B.C. enacts three-day cooling-off period for homebuyers
British Columbia has become the first province to require a three-day cooling-off period for buyers after they've signed an agreement to purchase a home.
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Tax on $1M+ homes could help solve housing affordability, inequality
An annual surtax on houses valued over $1 million could help reduce housing inequality and cool housing markets, a report says.
Biden looks at climate change risks to financial markets
In a season of daunting wildfires and flooding, the Biden administration is taking an initial step to assess how climate change could harm financial markets — planning to launch on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, a 75-day comment period on how the impacts could reshape the insurance sector.
Toronto home sales tank 40 per cent, prices down nearly $175,000 since April
Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area tanked last month and prices continued to recede, the city's real estate board said Thursday.
Upper, middle and low-income Canadians worried about housing prices: poll
Feel like a house in your city is unaffordable? Apparently, you're not alone.