Blog | Bruce Witchel

Should You Get a Pre-Sale Home Inspection?

Unless you’re in a seller’s market where you can expect many offers, quickly, it might make sense to get a pre-sale home inspection. It can give your listing a competitive advantage. What is it? It’s simply a professional inspection you get done on your own home. Assuming only a few inconsequential issues ...

Why Bargain Hunting is a Bad Idea

It seems like every month there is a new website offering deals on everything from electronics to travel. In fact, the “coupon industry” is booming. This trend has conditioned people, more than ever before, to look for bargains and become determined to pay well below the market price for merchandise. There’s ...

Is Dufferin secretly Toronto’s best street?

We’ve all had our battles with the Dufferin bus. On a cold day during rush hour, it can feel like a perilous object barrelling toward you: loud, crowded, seemingly devoid of suspension. But it’s also just always there—it’s an essential caravan for one of Toronto’s most important streets. Stretching from ...

Pre-construction condo buyers forced to off-load units for as much as $150,000 less than they paid

If buyers continue to sell condos below contract value in assignment sales, the sell-off could lower valuations for entire buildings, experts warn Toronto pre-construction buyers are selling assignments at a loss and the numbers are piling up, putting valuations of whole buildings at risk, experts warn. Lance McMillan Toronto Star A growing number of ...