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Affordability tips for first-time home buyers to securing a mortgage

Affordability tips for first-time home buyers to securing a mortgage
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Home Insurance

How to tell if your home insurance settlement is fair

How much does home insurance pay out? Here’s how to assess if your settlement is fair, plus tips on...

How to tell if your home insurance settlement is fair
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Renovations

How to save money on home renovations (even if you’re not handy)

You don't have do be a DIYer to pitch in and reduce the cost of your next home improvement...

How to save money on home renovations (even if you’re not handy)
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Real Estate

Ways to finance a home renovation in Canada

With the pandemic keeping more of us at home, for more hours of the day, about a fifth of...

Ways to finance a home renovation in Canada

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Real Estate

How much does a swimming pool cost in Canada?

Your choice of pool construction style, shapes and sizes, along with pool decking, landscaping and access to your backyard,...

How much does a swimming pool cost in Canada?
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Ask a Planner

Tax implications of building a laneway suite

Any time a homeowner becomes a landlord, there may be GST/HST and income tax owing—and the amounts can be...

Tax implications of building a laneway suite
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Real Estate

Should I stay or should I go: The real costs of moving out of the city

Packing it all in and moving out of the city has never been more appealing than in our current...

Should I stay or should I go: The real costs of moving out of the city

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What you need to know before starting a home renovation

A detailed contract and insurance should be non-negotiable. Here’s how to know if yours cover all the bases.

What you need to know before starting a home renovation

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Buying

Where to buy real estate in 2019: Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, B.C.

Birchland Manor in Port Coquitlam ranks No. 1 in this year’s regional Vancouver rankings.

Where to buy real estate in 2019: Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, B.C.

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