FAQ: No money down and cash back mortgages in Ontario

Things have changed a lot in the last few years.
Most Ontario lenders will not provide a mortgage with 'no money down' any more. There are, however, still lenders out there that will.

What happened to the no money down mortgage?

Following the collapse of the subprime mortgage...

Number ONE brokerage in the Greater Toronto Area for 2013

Right at Home Realty Inc., Brokerage achieves number one for 2013!*

Canada's largest independent real estate brokerage** just hit a huge milestone by achieving the number one spot in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) for all of 2013.

What is Right at Home's story?

Founded in 2004, the company now...

Whitby Road Closures for Highway 407 East construction

As construction continues to gear up for the massive 407 East project, road closures will affect traffic in a major way over the next two years.  Some major closures are detailed on the map above, with the following details:

Dundas Street – between McQuay Blvd. and Halls...

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has released statistics for mid-January, and the typical seasonal slowdown in volume hasn't stopped a surge in demand.

In the first two weeks of January, 2014 there were 1,287 residential sales transactions in the board, representing an 8% decrease over the same period last year.  New listings added...

The days of having a glove box full of unpaid parking tickets without having to worry about it is coming to an end in Toronto.

Starting this week, parking enforcement officers in Toronto will have the authority to have a vehicle towed that has three or more unpaid and undisputed parking tickets.  With the added incentive to pay up or lose...

Canada is planning to widely expand the number of foreign students studying here, and the potential for investors to accomodate those students may be very lucrative here in the Oshawa and Whitby areas.

On January 15, International Trade Minister Ed Fast announced that we will have 450,000 foreign students studying here by 2022, up from the current...