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Small downtown units may be increasing in supply, but so too is demand — and houses? With backyards? Get out of here. No, literally. You need to get the heck out of here.
Sotheby's International. Join the conversation Load comments. Condo and rental towers will fully engulf Toronto shopping mall. Katherine Singh. Growing up in a middle-class suburb outside of Vancouver, I was incredibly privileged to never really have to think about my family home. A house was just something that was there , it sheltered my Beanie Babies , was plastered in my Zac Efron J posters well my room was, anyway , and it provided the doorknob I dragged around on a string as my childhood pet true story.
And I expected that when the time came, I would, like my parents before me, buy a home to live in with my non-doorknob dog, two kids, and hunky Zac Efron-lookalike husband. Or maybe it was when my then-boyfriend — who was much more financially savvy and financially cynical than me — made it perfectly clear that, despite trying to save as much as we could, we would probably be renters for life.
Because, like discussing salaries or stomach issues, talking about how you managed to buy property is considered incredibly taboo — especially if part or all of that included getting financial help from family. And people had thoughts. Like when we published the story of a Calgary woman whose parents purchased a townhome for herself and her partner.
Be financially literate [with] savings accounts since middle school. Move in with your parents as an adult while you work and save full time. Have grandparents put in 6 figures to help. The people who have family money are fine and the rest of us are relatively fucked. Why would you want to keep pointing this failure of the system out. That's also assuming you can get a mortgage to make up the difference. How did the housing market get here? It's kind of complex, but there are a few reasons for our current housing bubble.
Homes are much more expensive than they were when our parents were buying in the '80s and '90s and not simply due to inflation, but also supply and demand.
Especially in popular and large cities, there are more buyers bidding for homes than there are actual homes.
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