Lee Quaile Broker or Record I’m sure many of us will find common ground in hoping for some measure of stability in 2023, the new year coming as it does upon the heels of one which featured unprecedented ups and downs in the real estate market (just in case you weren’t already sick enough of seeing the word ‘unprecedented’). And, happily, there are a handful of favourable indicators to...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record The past 24 hours have brought a pair of significant developments in our province – both of which will change how millions of Ontarians interact with our housing market. The roller coaster ride that’s characterized the past two years has been slowing for a few months now, with rising interest rates and general uncertainty working to put the brakes on the...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record The past several weeks haven’t exactly been jam packed with good news on the economic front. Canadian consumers are aware by now of the pain that’s being inflicted both by the widespread economic malady of the day (inflation), as well as its hardly-more-attractive remedy (interest rate hikes). While the Bank of Canada’s efforts to curb runaway price increases since...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record The rapidly changing skyline of Waterloo Region is a theme I’ve visited many times before. The condo building boom of the previous several years has been one of the most outwardly obvious signs of our area’s growing demographics and economy, and of our local governments’ focus on intensifying urbanization rather than expanding outwards. It might surprise...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record With the summertime winding down and the kids beginning to make their return to the classroom, we in the real estate business are getting ready for the perennial increase in market activity, as families are back in town and people’s minds turn back to more business-oriented affairs. And as the pace of the Waterloo Region market pics up into September, we’ve also been...
Lee Quaile Broker or Record The end of the summer vacation season tends to be a hectic time for most people, but it’s always been doubly so for residents of Waterloo – for visiting students and year-rounders alike. With three major post-secondary institutions to be found within five minutes of the centre of town, late August and early September each year bring a surge of population back to...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record There’s been a fair amount of contradictory analysis floating around out there this summer concerning whether Canada will follow our American cousins into an economic recession this year. A quick Google search will show you exactly what I mean, with headlines like “Canada’s economy is headed for a recession” and “Here’s why experts say Canada isn’t...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record Waterloo Region as we know it today started out from the humblest of beginnings – a smattering of farming communities spread out across the central portion of the Grand River watershed in the early 1800s. From there, we’ve grown to a total of over 625,000 residents, concentrated overwhelmingly in the major population centres of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge....
Lee Quaile Broker of Record It’s a fair question. You’d think that after two years’ worth of price increase after price increase, weary and frustrated buyers would now be coming out in droves to take advantage of a cooling market. But while the buyer pool hasn’t necessarily disappeared altogether, the numbers do point (both statistically and anecdotally) to fewer people being ready to pull...
Lee Quaile Broker of Record We all know that nothing lasts forever; a ‘true-ism’ that applies within every realm of our material world. For many months it was the turn of homeowners to watch their property values climb up and up and up, and to cash in on record-breaking sale prices all over Southwestern Ontario. Meanwhile, for anyone else who found themselves on the purchasing side of a real...