by Barbara Lawlor | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog
IN NEW HOME REAL ESTATE, SERVICE IS THE NAME OF THE GAME And when I say service, I mean communication. When you set out to buy a new home or condominium, you will work with a sales representative who is there to help you transform from shopper to owner in the...
by Barbara Lawlor | Jun 11, 2021 | Blog
A TALE OF THREE CITIES There are many corners of Canada’s residential real estate sector, but none is more fascinating than the marketing and sales of pre-construction condominiums.To be fair, all of us at Baker Real Estate are pretty blatantly biased about this point...
by Barbara Lawlor | Jun 9, 2021 | Blog
FEDERAL FUNDING FOR TORONTO TRANSIT PLANS GREAT NEWS! The media are buzzing with news of the Justin Trudeau government announcing a $10.7 billion commitment toward transit projects in the Greater Toronto Area (https://bit.ly/3oaUJ9r ; https://bit.ly/3vXTGfO)....
by Barbara Lawlor | Jun 6, 2021 | Blog
WHOSE STATISTIC IS IT ANYWAY? It’s a well-known truth that good news travels fast, but bad news travels even faster. And in an intensely competitive and fragmented media/social media landscape, the constant fight for attention can lead to some problematic results....
by Barbara Lawlor | Jun 4, 2021 | Blog
NEW MORTGAGE STRESS TEST RESTRICTION IN PLACE AS OF JUNE 1 The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has announced that the higher mortgage stress test proposed in April will, in fact, come into effect on June 1. (https://bit.ly/2RQ1v90) Those...
