Category: buy home

ANALYSIS: China’s Eastern Industrial Hub Suzhou May Face Housing Price Collapse Amid Over-Saturated Property Inventory

The number of used homes listed for sale recently skyrocketed in China’s industrial hub Suzhou, prompting a local financial expert to assert that the city’s housing prices would collapse by the year’s end. According to information on Lian Jia, a Beijing-based real estate trade platform, the number of second-hand homes for sale in Suzhou was…


Ottawa Adds Exceptions to Law That Bans Foreign Investors From Buying Canadian Homes Starting Jan. 1

The federal government has set out exceptions to legislation that will ban foreign investors from buying non-recreational residential property coming next month. The exemptions, included in the new regulations announced by the Liberal government on Dec. 21, will be used to implement the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act, starting Jan….


How Home Improvement Funds Upgrade Your New House to a Home

If you’re preparing to buy a home, you’ve probably been saving up for the down payment and other closing costs. But if that nest egg can only get you through the front door, it may not be enough. Once you own the home, you also own its peeling wallpaper, aging water, heater, and the carpet…