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A vacation home is almost a badge of honour among Canadians. It’s a chance for you and your family, and a few lucky friends, to retreat from the hustle and bustle of city life to relax in your own private paradise. Just the fact you can afford...

Kathy Tomlinson Other They had a deal. The Rappaports’ home, on Vancouver’s West Side, would net the couple $5.2-million last year. Jo and her husband had bought the stately Craftsman home in 1987 for $362,000. They raised their sons there and loved...

This article appears in the September edition of the Financial Post Magazine. Visit the iTunes store to download the iPad edition of this month’s issue. Business is brisk for Alberta mortgage broker Adil Mawji. However, it’s not because Albertans are...

 A century-old detached house in Toronto’s emerging Leslieville neighbourhood recently sold for $1.04-million, $140,000 more than the asking price of $899,999. From these numbers alone, anyone who has recently tried buying real estate in Canada’s largest...

Tracie Norman recently received a reminder from her customer relationship management system instructing her to contact a buyer client. So Norman, a real estate agent with the Speicher Group of Olney, Maryland-based Re/Max Realty Centre, did what she...