A survey reveals that the portion of Canadians who are “very likely” to purchase a home in the next two years has increased from seven percent to 10 percent since the same question was posed two years ago regardless of the difficult economy and concern about climbing household debt.

The media has been full of speculation about house prices being unsustainable in Canada, but the appeal to homeownership remains strong among those surveyed by Ipsos-Reid on behalf of RBC. An awe-inspiring 91 percent of Canadian homeowners believe a home is a good investment.

According to the survey, people aged 18 to 24 are most likely to buy in the next two years.…

Prospecting expired listings can be the heart of anyone’s business in the real estate field. You can create a scheme that will give you repeatable results for your effort. Here are three very positive characteristics in prospecting expired listings.

They are easy to find:

The expired listings come up every day, so you will constantly have a handful that you can work with on a daily basis. They provide a steady stream of new leads to contact for listing appointments. There are also usually a few very heavy days each month.

They want to sell:

Expired listings were on the market at one time, unlike many other types of clients you will contact. The…

Although there are a lot of choices for investing, property investment is one of the favorites among investors. There are at least nine reasons to invest in property and not other types of investments:

1. The power of “Leverage”

To invest in properties have the option to not use 100% of our money, however, by using other people’s money (OPM). One of the most common source is the money the bank loans.

2. Relatively low risk

Generally, investment in property is not like investing in the stock market where prices in one day can go down and up quite significantly. Only in certain situations where the economy was bad, property investments may be affected…