Category Archives: Real Estate News

To Sell or not to sell your home – yourself?

Read this article from Mark Weisleder at moneyville.ca on selling your home yourself.

http://www.moneyville.ca/article/990097–why-i-wouldn-t-sell-my-home-myself

No HST on Resale Homes

There still seems to be confusion about the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax), implemented on 1st July 2010 related to resale homes. Consumers buying resale homes DO NOT pay HST on their purchase.

Since resale housing was never subject to the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) or the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST), it continues to be exempt from the new HST.

Excerpt from Toronto Real Estate Board