According to a Financial Post report the average price of detached homes in Toronto passed the $1 million mark for the first time last month. 🙂 The GTA has experienced a housing bull market for almost 2 decades and there is no sign of it stopping. I want to congratulate Torontonians for reaching the $1 million milestone. Welcome to the club.… Read More »
Last month I blogged about investing in German real estate through a Canadian REIT called Dream Global. I chose this investment for its strong foothold in the European economy and for the consistent high yield. Normally dividends from foreign investments are taxed. However because I’ve bought DRG.UN in my Tax Free Savings Account it wasn’t really clear what would happen.… Read More »
Canadians are notoriously overweight. 😛 Financially overweight in real estate that is. 😉 When it comes to buying houses we are even more gluttonous than our American pals. The Canadian median household net worth may be one of the highest in the world, but strip away the equities in our homes and many of us would feel financially emasculated. 😐… Read More »
Investing in DRG.UN A couple of months ago my investment in Tim Hortons came to an end as the company was purchased by Burger King and I realized a profit of over 100% in less than 2 years. In the end I was given some shares of the new holding company, and a handsome payout of $1,700 in cash. If you… Read More »
The Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz stated last month that this country’s housing market could be overvalued by as much as 30%. This may very well be true, but it’s nothing to be alarmed about. 😉 In fact I would be really surprised if our real estate market was not overpriced given what’s going on in the rest of the… Read More »
Flawed and Unreliable The debt to disposable income (DTI) ratio represents the ratio of one’s total debt amount to his after tax income. But the debt to income flaw is not often discussed. “Debt” is a balance sheet item (net worth,) but “income” deals with budgeting (income statement.) Debt is simply a static number, while income requires the element of time… Read More »