In the fourth quarter of 2022, Canada clocked 497,000 job vacancies that required a high school diploma or less. Meanwhile, there were only 366,000 available workers to fill these low-skilled jobs. Canada needs more workers to fill the remaining 26% of these low-skilled jobs. Similarly, Canadian employers may not be able to find suitable local talent […]
Category Archives: Life in Canada
Housing “Bubble Trouble”
The GTA housing market has been heating up for the last few months. Even Brampton house prices have risen by thousands of dollars. This kind of craziness is unprecedented for the time I have been in the Real Estate profession. Not only have the prices gone up unrealistically, but the buyers, and even the realtors […]
Gas Prices Effecting Real Estate
The reaction of the real estate market will vary depending on the kinds of challenges each province faces this year due to unique economic situations prevailing in those provinces as a result of huge fall in gas prices. Minimum down payment requirement of 10% for buying houses from $500,000 to $ 1,000,000 effective Feb 15, 2016 will […]