Durham Region Real Estate Blog

A new Tim Hortons restaurant is coming to Scugog Island, right across the road from the Great Blue Heron Casino.

The restaurant will open the week of July 17th - the gas station on the same site opened July 14.

The building site is just north of the customer exit from the casino, south of the Fralick's Beach Road intersection, on the west side...

Airbnb has rapidly established itself as a viable alternative to hotels for people seeking short-term rentals in many cities worldwide. It has also become a vehicle for many property owners to secure an excellent return on their real estate investments.

As with other emerging internet-based sharing services (like Uber), it also has downsides...

Oshawa Community Performance

For the most recent quarter for which residential sales statistics are available, the following areas (or districts) showed the strongest year-over-year average price gain for the Oshawa area:

Lakeview +36.2%

The number one area in Oshawa was Lakeview. It is located roughly west of Simcoe, east of the GM plant...

If you bought an average detached home in Scugog in 2011, with a 5% down payment, your down payment would have been $18,950 on a price of $378,990.

In just 5 years, that average home would now be worth $625,967.  You would have made $246,977 in equity on your home. But you only invested a down payment of $18,950 - your gain on that would amount...

Clarington was once again one of Durham's best performing markets in September 2016 with an average residential price gain of 28.8% over September of last year. The Toronto Real Estate Board's (TREB) latest market stats put the average property selling at $488,725 - substantially up from last year's 379,466.

The average selling...

Whitby's residential real estate market showed a better than typical GTA increase in September 2016 with an average price gain of 25.8% over September of last year. The Toronto Real Estate Board's (TREB) latest market stats put the average property selling at $596,363 - up from last year's 474,112.

The average selling...