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Moving In Canada: Complete Guide to neighbourhoods and buying a home!
Owning your own home is a key part of the average family's Canadian Dream.
Moving In Canada is designed to help people choose a neighbourhood (starting with the list at left), find a local realtor, home and mover,
buy and sell your home, move your household,
make the trip, and get settled in. We even have information to help you immigrate and move to Canada
Once you have looked at your community, and reviewed our info about specific neighbourhoods, you can now get down to the "nitty gritty" of home shopping, taking advantage of the professional services of a local realtor, do doing some legwork yourself using "FSBO" (for sale by owner) resources. And once you have found a home, you can plan your move & movers, whether across the street, across town or across Canada.
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Moving is now as simple as 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
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1. Pick a citySelect a CITY at left, or PROVINCE above, and begin exploring options
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2. Select a neighbourhood View info about schools, shopping, recreation and homes. Check the MLS listings links
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3. Pick a realtor and find your perfect homeUse the local search for realtors of FSBO services
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4. Pick a mover, & make the moveUse the local search for movers. Check the Moving Hotlist for key utilities contacts.
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Whether moving in your community, city, province, we've got
COAST-TO-COAST Moving information & tips.
We have lots of information about the drive there, usually along the
Trans-Canada Highway.
Meet Mikey, the Moving Beaver, our trusty mascot!
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Submit your community information
Community Economic Development Offices: Pleased add your community profile to this website, via the Feedback Form, and we will be in touch with you.
Submissions should include information equivalent to the info we have written for other communities and neighbourhoods, and include these headings:
Overview (history, transportation, industries),
Shopping (key malls and shopping districts in-town and nearby),
Schools (K-12, libraries, post secondary access),
Recreation (competitive sports, participatory sports, arts, other attractions),
Homes (types and ratios, rough price ranges). Include key town web links (city hall, tourism office, economic development agency) as a URL without any HTML coding.
Also, see the web marketing tips on our blog at http://blog.foundlocally.com/default.asp?Display=55
Real Estate, Mortgage & Relocation News and Annoucements
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Here are the most recent news stories posted for Moving In Canada:
What your home will look like in 2015(Posted:10/27/2011)
Canada: Fast Company's futurists work with the National Association of Home Builders (US) for their look at what homes will look like in just a few years
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Housing Prices Vary Significantly Around the World(Posted:10/05/2011)
Canada: Wired magazine reports on per-square-foot prices for housing varies significantly around the world. How lucky are we? (even in Vancouver. Toornto)
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Widening Canada-US House Price Gap(Posted:09/29/2011)
Canada: Toronto Globe & Mail reports that average Canadian home is now twice as expensive as comprable American homes in this chart. Canadian home prices continue to climb, while US home prices are still falling from their 2005 peak (or close to their lows).
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Flaherty unveils new Mortgage Rules to reduce household debt(Posted:01/17/2011)
Canada: New mortgages cannot have amortizations longer than 30 years (previously 35) and CMHC will no longer insure homes that are used as security for lines of credit, typically known as home equity loans
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Canada November Composite Leading Indicators: Housing up(Posted:12/14/2010)
Canada: Following is the text of Canada's leading indicators report from Statistics Canada.
The composite index rose 0.3% in November, the same as in October. Among the 10 components, 6 posted gains, 3 were unchanged and 1 declined.
The housing index recorded the largest turnaround, increasing 2.0% after six straight declines averaging almost 3% a month. Both housing starts and existing home sales firmed after sizable retreats from their highs in the spring. The upturn in housing was reflected in a levelling off of furniture and appliance sales, after four straight declines.
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Canada Housing Starts Rise First Time in Four Months, Exceeding Forecasts(Posted:12/08/2010)
Canada: Starts advanced 11.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 187,200 from a revised 167,800 rate in October, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said from Ottawa today. The reading exceeded all 21 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey that had a median estimate of 173,000 units.
Housing starts will drop to 174,800 units in 2011 from an estimated 186,200 units this year, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Nov. 15. The Bank of Canada said in October that housing will be a drag on economic growth next year, after temporary stimulus measures for homeowners lapsed.
The Canadian Housing Market is Expected to Stabilize- Predict Experts(Posted:12/08/2010)
Canada: Even though the mortgage rates have increased from 3.39% to 3.69 %, they are still at historic lows. Thus, it’s still a buyer’s market. In fact experts suggest that Canada’s mortgage industry is vastly stable and competitive than its American and Australian markets. In the US, there were 54,000 mortgage firms, while only 8000 of them are left today. On a national level the housing affordability improved between 1.4 and 2.5 % points from the second quarter,” adds Ken Faminoff (first name).
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RBC predicts stability in housing market (Posted:12/01/2010)
Canada: Canada's largest bank is predicting a period of stability in the housing market next year as rising mortgage rates are offset by improvements in the job market and household income.
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Canadian housing starts dove 9.2%(Posted:11/22/2010)
Canada: In October, Canadian housing starts dove 9.2% to 167.9K units from a downwardly revised 185K in September. This is an acceleration of what had been a smooth down trend in starts since April. Urban starts plunged to 142.4K from 162.3K the previous month. Rural starts sprang to 25.5K from 22.7K. This worse-thanexpected overall decline was broad-based, with starts falling in 4 of 5 regions. Only the Atlantic region (+32.9% or +2.4K) posted a gain
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Niagara Housing market to dip slightly in 2011(Posted:11/20/2010)
ON: The agency predicts sales of existing homes should reach 5,700 in 2011, a 2.6 per cent drop over 2010. Likewise, construction starts for all types of housing should hit 1,000 next year, a drop of 4.8 per cent over 2010.
Construction starts for single detached homes will see the biggest drop, with 600 starts predicted for 2011 — a drop of 11.8 per cent over 2010, and a full 198 starts lower than 2007.
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