Rates, renovations, repairs: A guide to the hidden costs of buying your first home

Owning a home isn’t just paying back a mortgage over 30 years – it also comes with dozens of extra expenses you may not have thought of yet. Congratulations! Through some combination of hard work, self-denial, and outside assistance, you’ve managed to scrape together the savings to buy your first home. Getting a deposit together … Read more

Flush the toilet, roll a marble: How to hack your next Open Home

There’s an art to visiting open homes. Rebecca Stevenson looks behind ‘the vibe’ and smell of baking as she searches for a new house. I’m not exactly in the market for a new home, but I am in the market for open homes. Let me explain. We own our home. Our home is a dump … Read more