#Home borrowing costs hit 23-year high 

#Home borrowing costs hit 23-year high 

Home mortgage rates have reached the highest figure since 2000, as the average borrowing rate for 30-year home loans topped 7.31 percent this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. The new figure is a slight increase from last week’s 7.19 percent. A year ago it was 6.70 percent. The rate continues to climb, in…

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#A Manitoba five-bedroom fit for a (former) prime minister

#A Manitoba five-bedroom fit for a (former) prime minister

Two-time Canadian PM Arthur Meighen owned this sprawling Edwardian just outside of Winnipeg. Now, you could, too. (Photography by Graham McCallum) Manitoba realtor Meagan McKillop is sitting on what she considers to be the most precious listing of her career: a 2,400-square-foot, three-storey, mint-tinged Edwardian home in Portage La Prairie, located an hour’s drive from…

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#This tiny B.C. hut is a birdhouse for humans

#This tiny B.C. hut is a birdhouse for humans

How one Calgary architect fulfilled his longtime dream to live among the birds  (Photography by Hayden Pattullo, Studio North) Every summer when Mark Erickson was growing up, his family would drive three hours west of their home in Calgary through the mountainous wilderness of Banff to visit their spartan two-bedroom cottage in Windermere, B.C. The…

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#This renovated Toronto loft has an iconic archway

#This renovated Toronto loft has an iconic archway

“The condo started feeling like nobody else could have possibly lived here but me” (Photography by Andrew Snow.) Anila Akram grew up in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood, where she rode the Green Line with friends and ate at multicultural restaurants like Maha’s Brunch. In 2016, Akram, by then a brand manager, was scouring the Toronto real…

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