Real estate tips for those looking for rural or remote properties in the Ottawa area […]

Consider what's happened during the four months ended April 30 compared to the same period in 2020. Existing homes in Ottawa sold for an average of nearly $800,000 — up 34 per cent. […]

City committee approves proposed tax on vacant residences […]

Staff suggesting additional 1% on units left empty half the year […]

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What could you get for $1 million in the Ottawa real estate market? […]

Ottawa home starts to fall from 2020's record high: CMHC […]

Relationships in real estate: How is your home owned? Who is on the title? […]

OTTAWA — The Canadian economy grew at an annual rate of 6.5 per cent through the first quarter of the year, Statistics Canada said Friday, bringing the country tantalizing close to reaching pre-pandemic output. […]

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After dipping in February, Ottawa-Gatineau housing starts roared back in March as builders launched nearly twice as many new builds as they did a year earlier, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says. […]

Those buyers settled mainly in Aylmer — a sector in the city's west end — where transactions were up 100 per cent in 2020. […]

OTTAWA -- Ottawa's real estate market went out like a lion in March, with the average home price increasing 35 per cent from a year ago. […]

In a typical Ottawa real estate market there would be between 3,500 and 4,000 active listings. During the past three years, though, inventory levels in Ottawa have consistently dropped. […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020 real estate agents in Ottawa and elsewhere were worried. News items at the time chronicled declining sales and fears that the housing market was in for a major slump. Instead, the real estate market in Ottawa has been on a tear, with few signs of slowing down. […]

Potential homebuyers in Ottawa are dealing with frustration and fatigue as they try to buy the perfect house. Fewer homes are for sale and more people are wanting to buy, which has sale prices surging and buyers willing to bid six-figures over asking. […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020 real estate agents in Ottawa and elsewhere were worried. News items at the time chronicled declining sales and fears that the housing market was in for a major slump. Instead, the real estate market in Ottawa has been on a tear, with few signs of slowing down. […]

A record number of residential properties changed hands in February, the Ottawa Real Estate Board says, as unprecedented demand caused prices to spike and cut the number of days it took to sell a home last month in half compared with a year ago. […]

OTTAWA -- In a typical Ottawa real estate market there would be between 3,500 and 4,000 active listings. During the past three years, though, inventory levels in Ottawa have consistently dropped. […]

Only a month into the new year, real estate stats in the capital are already staggering. The average price of a home in the Ottawa region is a whopping $677,197, a more than 30 per cent increase since last January. […]

An Ottawa real estate firm wants to convert a seven-floor Centretown office building into rental housing in a bid to intensify a prime piece of land in the downtown core. In a development application recently filed with the city, SerCo Realty Group says it plans to add an extra floor to the seven-storey building at 331 Cooper St., just east of O’Connor Street, as part of a proposal to turn the property into an apartment complex. The redesigned building would feature 45 units in a mix of studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments as well as rooftop amenity space and a gym. […]

A homeowner in the Ottawa suburb of Manotick says she has had part of her property destroyed by a developer who owns the land next door. “I came home from work one day to find 17 trees down on my property,” homeowner Wendy Richards told CTV News Ottawa. […]