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If you're thinking about purchasing a house, now is the time.

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Home prices have increased over the past 25 years - but they won't be this low again anytime soon. Take advantage of the lowest rates for houses in over two decades. It was the year that Prince Charles as well as Diana Princess of Wales divorced.   Macarena landed at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles and  Braveheart  was awarded an Oscar in the category of Best Picture.   What about houses?   You can buy one for $200,000, which is the amount needed for a typical priced home in the present. Based on the  Re/Max Canada Quarter Century Market Report  the median price of a home located in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in 1996 was $198,150.   In 2021 the average cost was $1,095,475.   This is a staggering growth of 453 percent and an annual rate of growth of 7.08 percent. My family and I moved into the house we call home today in the year 1996. It was located in Brooklin the village of Brooklin in the north of Whitby.   Being aware that...

Make Brampton your new home

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  Brampton is a city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. It is a suburban city with a population of 593,638 as of the 2016 census. Brampton is the ninth-largest city in Canada and the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area after Toronto and Mississauga. Brampton was incorporated as a village in 1853, taking its name from the market town of Brampton, in Cumbria, England. The city was once known as "The Flower Town of Canada", a title it earned for its large greenhouse industry. Today, Brampton's major economic sectors include advanced manufacturing, retail administration and logistics, information and communication technologies, food and beverage, life sciences and business services.The city has a population density of 2,265 people per square kilometre (5,860/sq mi). Brampton's 2016 population represents a 7.8% increase from its 2011 population of 552,011, which in turn represented a 28.5% increase from 421,675 in 2006. This growth rate is significa...