Posts Tagged ‘canadians’

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New Plan Takes Medicine Hat To the Next Level

Share Medicine Hat City Council has enthusiastically endorsed a long term vision for Medicine Hat’s downtown core. The only problem is how to turn the vision that has been on paper into a reality. The council has approved the Downtown Redevelopment Plan as presented by the city’s superintendent of planning services and the consultant who [...]


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Buyers Beware Part 2

Share Continuing from yesterday, we will get into another warning that buyers must know before they decide to purchase a home. Today’s warning will be on grow op houses. As you might already know, a grow op house is a house that people use to grow marijuana. The condition of a house after being used [...]


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Consumers Not Big On Spending Large

Share On December 1st, 2009, RBC established a new monthly benchmark index- the most comprehensive consumer index in Canada, which described Canadian consumers’ assessment of the economy and their personal financial situation. The RBC Canadian Consumer Outlook report found that 62% of Canadians expect to see the Canadian economy improve over the next year, whereas [...]


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TD Canada Trust Generational Homeownership Survey: Younger the Owners, Older the Home

Share According to the TD Canada Trust Generational Homeownership Survey, almost half of Canadians (48%) aged 18-34 years old have bought a first house that was at least 21 years old. We then see that 5+ chose newer homes with only 27% of that group purchasing a property that is 21 years or older for [...]


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Mortgage Debt Rises

Share There are have many warnings made by bankers on the fact that consumers should be wary when taking household debt, Canadians are gaining an appetite for risk and taking on longer-term mortgages. The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals released a survey on Monday that shows 18% of mortgages are long-term compared with 16% [...]


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Canadian Renting Guide: The Credit Check Part 4

Share Last time, information on where how you can rent despite bad credit was provided, and information on some of your options in the face of financial struggle was touched upon. Rent gear income (RGI), sometimes called subsidized, non-profit or social housing, is rent charged at a fixed percentage of the tenant’s income, it is [...]


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RBC: Renovation Tax Credit Boosts Home Improvements Projects Across Canada

Share According to a new Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) study, it shows that a majority of Canadian   renovators (63%) plan to take advantage of the federal governments’ home renovation tax credit this year, and 47% has already done more renovations because of the tax break. This survey was conducted by Ipsos Reid, and found [...]


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