Market Watch

Millennials Get Creative to Buy That First Home Every generation dreams of a place to call their own and millennials are no different. In fact, a recent Royal Bank of Canada poll showed that by 2021 half of them intend to be ensconced in the housing market. Things are a little different for the average

Renting-to-Own is the New Black: How Real Estate Investors Can Help Millennials Get into Their First Home If you’re anyone who’s ever chosen to rent instead of purchase their first home, you’ve probably heard the old adage: “Renting is throwing your money away.” Right up there with, “Money is the root on which every flower

Bitcoin will revolutionize real estate (Image Source: Google Images) Bitcoin. Blockchain. Cryptocurrency. Digital money. These are the buzzwords of 21st century finance and technology. They are making rapid inroads into every business and, according to some estimates, will become as mainstream as cash and credit cards by 2030. Are we in the real estate sector

Driverless Vehicles Driving the Future of Real Estate? (Image Source: Google Images) Autonomous vehicles, once a science-fiction fantasy, are rapidly becoming mainstream. Giants like Google and Uber are testing more and more sophisticated versions of driverless vehicles. Soon they may become as commonplace on our roads as traffic lights and utility poles. What impact will

Toronto's top 5 skating rinks By Jason Pantalone Where is your favourite place to skate in Toronto? Do you like the figure-8 shaped skating trail at Colonel Samuel Smith Park on the Lakeshore in Etobicoke? Or perhaps the Harbourfront Natrel Rink where you can skate under the stars?  Or how about Gage Park at Main

Newmarket Rated as one of Canada's Top Ten Places to Live By Matthew Pantalone In Moneysense Magazine’s 8th Annual rating of Canada’s Best Places to Live, Newmarket made the Top Ten! This comprehensive analysis looks at a broad spectrum of available data to determine which places offer the Best Quality of Life. Factors studied include

Rocco Pantalone The founder of National Homes has real insight on what makes new homebuyers happy: Customer Satisfaction BY GALE BEEBY Rocky Pantalone started out in the business world as a real estate agent and in 1974 founded Pantalone Realty, a leading real estate brokerage. That led, naturally, to becoming a developer and builder and, in

Low-rise will always be in demand’ By Deena Pantalone A family-run business, National Homes was founded in 1992, an offshoot of Pantalone Realty. Over the years, they’ve developed low-rise projects across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as having active commercial development and custom-home building divisions. These days, National is starting sales at The