Canadians owe nearly 3 Trillion Dollars in debt, topping 130% of our GDP! ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ

Buying, Real Talk with Corbin | May 1, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

CANADIAN DEBT = $2,920,000,000,000 !!! Canadians owe nearly 3 Trillion Dollars in debt, topping 130% of our GDP! ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ธ While Canadians have stopped borrowing as much, now that rates are SKY HIGH, we still accumulated a whopping amount of debt, especially over the past 4 years! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ’ฐ To put it in perspective, from March 2020…

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๐Ÿ“ˆFixed Rates To Reach New Peak?!

Real Talk with Corbin | May 1, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

๐Ÿ“ˆFixed Rates To Reach New Peak?! With Surging Bond Yields reaching their PEAK for 2024, we’re likely to see fixed rates get pushed up yet again this year! This is definitely not the news most of us want to hear right now, that’s for sure. ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ“ˆ On the variable side, many in the forward rate…

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A Montrรฉal Tenant was just ordered to pay 6 years of withholding tax because his landlord apparently was a NON resident! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

Real Talk with Corbin | April 19, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

๐Ÿšจ A Montrรฉal Tenant was just ordered to pay 6 years of withholding tax because his landlord apparently was a NON resident! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ   The landlord had failed to pay their 25% withholding tax to the CRA so after the CRA couldn’t collect overseas they instead in a totally unprecedented move went directly after the…

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Nearly 70,000 British Columbians left our province last year, with the majority of them going to Alberta. ๐Ÿšš

Real Talk with Corbin | April 6, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

๐Ÿ“Š Stats Canada just released new data that shows for the first time in over a decade, More people left BC than those who moved to the province. In 2023 Alberta received a surge of interprovincial migration, gaining over 55,000 new residents, with nowhere else even coming close.ย  In that same year, BC LOST almost…

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Justin Trudeau just announced a new “Renters Bill of Rights”

Real Talk with Corbin | April 5, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

He claims will help protect renters from being taken advantage of by their landlords. ๐Ÿ’ฅ He wants to nationalize lease agreements and create a law requiring landlords disclose the rental rate history to potential tenants.ย  Trudeau claims that this will be really helpful for renters to negotiate their new rent with their landlords. ๐Ÿ’ผ๐Ÿ“œ He…

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Alberta Ambassador Announcement!

Real Estate Tips, Real Talk with Corbin | March 26, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

Are you Alberta-bound? With more British Columbians moving to Alberta than ever (especially Calgary!) I wanted to do a deep dive into this migration pattern and see whatโ€™s really happening. It was time to see just what the numbers were exactly and share them. Personally in my business, since 2020 I have never had more…

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Canadian’s Standard of living has plummeted, with Real GDP per capita falling to the same levels as 2017. ๐Ÿ“‰

Real Talk with Corbin | March 16, 2024 | written by Corbin Chivers

While US real GDP per capita has been steadily increasing, here in Canada we’re actually currently decreasing. This highlights the fact that since 2015 we have rapidly declining when compared to the US. We had been stable at about 83% for about 24 years and then within just 5 years, had fallen to 76% without…

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