Whether you’re upgrading your home for sale, or to stay, we’ve got you: consider this your go-to guide on how to stage your home this spring.

Inside & Out: Home upgrading tips from the experts

Whether you’re upgrading your home for sale, or simply to enjoy a renewed space, we’ve got you: our staging and design experts have some inexpensive tips on how to spruce up your home—inside and out. Consider this your go-to guide on how to stage your place to sell (or stay) this spring.

Inside & Out: How to upgrade your home for sale (or for yourself) this spring

Curious about the real estate market in Vancouver? Properly's Instant Estimate reveals recent trends in home values across the region.

Report: Vancouver home values change amid pandemic

With Properly’s Instant Estimate tool launching today in Vancouver (Canada’s most accurate free home value calculator), we used its AI-powered technology to take stock of the Vancouver and the Fraser Valley regions to see how home values have changed during the pandemic.

How has the pandemic impacted home values in Vancouver? A new report highlights which neighbourhoods have changed the most

These staging tips can help your home stand out among the rest of the listings, encourage more offers, and earn you a higher selling price.

Is home staging worth it? Yes. Here’s why (and how)

When you’re looking to sell, these 5 staging tips can help your home stand out among the rest of the listings, encourage more offers, and help you earn a higher selling price.

Is home staging worth the cost? Yes. Here’s how to do it.

Post-interest rate hike, what's the Canadian real estate market doing? Here's what one pricing expert is noticing in Toronto and Vancouver.

Real estate right now: Toronto and Vancouver

Curious what the housing market is doing post-interest rate hike? We sat down with Properly Pricing Manager Arieh Dales to gain insight into some notable trends in Vancouver and Toronto, and what we can be optimistic about in this current real estate environment.

Real estate right now: What one expert is noticing in Toronto and Vancouver

Knowing what and how to prepare for a home purchase will make securing the right financing and approvals much easier.

Preparing to buy a home? Remember these 7 crucial steps

Let’s walk you through how to avoid some common mistakes before making a move. Knowing these in advance will better your chances of getting approved for a mortgage, and securing the right financing for a potential home.

Preparing to buy a home? Don't forget these 7 crucial steps

The 2022 Federal Budget outlines 5 major steps towards making home ownership more affordable for all Canadians.

2022 Budget: Making housing more affordable in Canada

The 2022 Federal Budget outlines significant actions the Canadian government is planning to take to make home ownership more affordable for Canadians, including incentivizing first-time buyers, accelerating construction, and placing limits around house flipping and blind bidding. What does this mean for you? Let's take a closer look.

Federal Budget highlights: 5 steps towards making Canada's housing market more affordable

In light of the Bank of Canada's 2022 interest rate hikes, we're asking ourselves: is making a real estate move financially viable right now?

“Should I still move?” What the BoC’s interest rate hikes really means for buyers

In light of the Bank of Canada's 2022 interest rate hikes, we're asking ourselves: is making a real estate move financially viable right now? When's the best time for Canadians to buy or sell a home? We tapped our team of Properly housing experts to answer these questions, and more. In a nutshell: the upward movement of interest rates shouldn’t prevent you from adjusting your strategy and entering the real estate market as you intended to this year.

“Should I still move?” What the BoC’s interest rate hikes really mean for Canadian homebuyers

If you're reading this, you've probably heard the news that the Bank of Canada hiked up its benchmark interest rate from 0.5% to 1%.

Fixed vs. variable mortgages in Canada: Which is better for today’s homebuyer?

The Bank of Canada (BoC)'s recent interest rate hike from 0.5% to 1% is prompting many Canadians to compare fixed vs. variable mortgages as they look to buy a new home in 2022. Here is how our internal real estate and financial experts have been thinking about it at Properly.

Over the past 10 years, the number of EV-enabled homes sold in Toronto and Vancouver has skyrocketed. And so have their prices.

REPORT: Electric vehicle chargers drive up home prices

Here’s how much electric vehicle chargers drive up home prices in Toronto and Vancouver

Find out which Toronto neighbourhoods (and which home types) experienced the most appreciation over the past two years.

Toronto home values increased 21% during the pandemic

Here’s how much Toronto home values have increased during the pandemic

Buying and selling a home in Greater Vancouver just got a lot easier — because now you can buy *before* you sell with Properly.

Properly is officially live in Vancouver!

Buying and selling a home in Greater Vancouver just got *a lot* easier — because now you can do it with Properly.

Vancouver, meet your new neighbour...us!

They found their dream neighbourhood. But their dream home? That was more of a challenge. Thankfully, Properly was there to help.

For this family, the perfect home was just down the street

They found their dream neighbourhood. But their dream home? That was more of a challenge. Thankfully, their Properly real estate agent — Rahim Jaffer — was there to help.

For this East end family, the perfect home was just down the street

How Late Payments and Other Factors can Impact Your Mortgage Approval Chances

Factors That Impact Mortgage Approval - Properly

Getting approved for a good mortgage rate can help you take the final steps towards getting your dream home. To qualify for the best mortgage rates possible, you want to make sure you have a good credit score. Read more to learn how.

How Good Credit Can Help You Ace Your Mortgage Approval Chances

Celebrity brothers, Jonathan and Drew Scott are partnering with Properly as ambassadors and investors. Two of the industry’s most trusted real estate experts.

We’re partnering with the Scott Brothers!

Celebrity Brothers, Jonathan and Drew Scott join Properly as ambassadors and investors. Two of the industry’s most trusted real estate experts are partnering with us at Properly to help Canadians buy, move and then sell. Jonathan and Drew Scott’s latest initiative isn’t a home reno or another show on HGTV ...

Should I rent or buy? Is it better for me to rent or buy? Find out the answer to these questions and more as you look at the pros and cons of each option.

Rent or Buy? Which Should You Pick?

Explore all the steps to buying a house in Ontario to ensure you are paying the right price. Understand what you need to have to buy your dream home.

How to Buy a House in Ontario

If you are looking to buy a new home in Ontario, here is a breakdown of what to look for and save money. Includes tips on investing in Ontario real estate.

Buying A House in Ontario in 2021

Investing in real estate can be difficult, but by learning the pros and cons of investing in Canada, you can find out what is best for you.

Real Estate: Investing in Canada

Toronto property tax is difficult to understand. Here are helpful tips on property taxes and setting yourself up for success when buying a new home.

The State of Property Taxes in Toronto

Learn some of the first questions you should ask when looking for home insurance. Discover how to get the most from your home insurance policy.

Your Home Insurance Questions Answered

Explore what you need to do to find the perfect time to secure a home insurance policy and how to find the right quote for you.

When To Get Home Insurance

Hoping to stumble upon the perfect property? Answer these questions and be well on your way to finding your dream home.

Finding Your Ultimate Dream Home - Properly

Finding Your Ultimate Dream Home

Get educated on what you can afford. Make the best financial decisions for your mortgage payments.

Determining Mortgage Payments You Can Afford - Properly

Determining Mortgage Payments You Can Afford

Learn about home loans for first time home buyers. Tips on the types of mortgages, interest rates, incentives, and more.

Home Loans For First Time Home Buyers - Properly

Home Loans For First Time Home Buyers

Find out about real estate and mortgage rates in Ontario, which cities have the lowest interest rates, and more.

What Are the Current Mortgage Rates in Ontario - Properly

What Are the Current Mortgage Rates in Ontario?

Buying real estate can be a huge decision and a big commitment, especially if you're buying a home. This guide will help you understand how much mortgage you may be able to afford.

How Much Mortgage Can I Afford? - Properly

Your Question Answered: How Much Mortgage Can I Afford?

Discover the advantages of signing up for a mortgage versus buying a home outright, plus non-traditional financing routes.

Home Ownership: Zero Mortgage or Mortgage? - Properly

Home Ownership: Zero Mortgage or Mortgage

The real estate market in Canada’s largest city is getting more and more difficult to navigate, here’s everything to know about buying a house in Toronto, the GTA, and beyond.

City Real Estate: Toronto Homes for Sale — Properly

City Real Estate: Toronto Homes for Sale

Now more than ever, it’s crucial to stay on top of all real estate investing news and developments. Here’s how you can make informed property choices.

How to Find Real Estate Investing News — Properly

How to Find Real Estate Investing News

Finding the best home insurance rate is often lost in all the excitement of the big purchase. Here are some things you can do to improve your insurance costs.

How to Get the Best Home Insurance Rate — Properly

How to Get the Best Home Insurance Rates in Canada

Step by step instructions on the process of buying a home in Ontario, from saving for a downpayment to finding a real estate agent, to closing the final deal

10 Steps to Buying a Home In Ontario - Properly

10 Steps to Buying a Home in Ontario

Being a first time home buyer is as daunting as it is exciting. Here are some things you should know about your first purchase to help make the process less stressful.

What You Need to Know as A First Time Home Buyer in Canada — Properly

What You Need to Know as A First Time Home Buyer in Canada

The Canadian housing market is intimidating to say the least. Here’s how first time home buyers can determine if they’re ready to buy a house in Canada.

Buying a House: Are You Ready — Properly

Buying a House: Are You Ready?

Although many people don’t associate the two, purchasing Canadian property is also a lucrative form of investment. Here’s everything you need to know about the basics.

The Basics of Real Estate Investing — Properly

The Basics of Investing in Real Estate

As a first time home buyer in Ontario, check out this guide to incentives, government rebates, tax credits and more.

Tips for a first time home buyer in Ontario - Properly

Your Guide to Being A First Time Home Buyer in Ontario

Proof of Funds is a simple yet crucial component of a smooth real estate transaction, proving that the buyer is trustworthy and financially responsible.

What is a Proof of Funds Letter — Properly

What is a Proof of Funds Letter?

Finding home insurance in Ontario is getting more difficult due to increasing premiums, here’s what you can do to make things easier.

How to Find Home Insurance in Ontario — Properly

How to Find Home Insurance in Ontario

Home insurance estimates from third-party calculators can be useful, but their accuracy is also variable. Here’s what to expect when using one.

What to Expect When Using a Home Insurance Calculator — Properly

Meta Description: Home insurance estimates from third-party calculators can be useful, but their accuracy is also variable. Here’s what to expect when using one.

What to Expect When Using a Home Insurance Calculator

Figuring out how to buy a house that works for you can be daunting, to say the least; here are six steps to buying a house that make the process easier!

6 Steps to Buying a House — Properly

6 Steps to Buying A House

Before fully committing to any plan, it pays to research some of the factors that influence home insurance cost and the efficacy of these important policies

What Does Home Insurance Cost — Properly

What Does Home Insurance Cost?

With how competitive the real estate market is getting across Canada, those new to the industry need to take advantage of first time home buyers incentives

First Time Home Buyers Incentives to Know — Properly

First Time Home Buyers Incentives to Know

Purchasing real estate involves plenty of ancillary tasks that can become stressful, including selecting real estate lawyers. Here’s how to make the process less stressful!

Finding the Top Real Estate Lawyers — Properly

Finding the Top Real Estate Lawyers

Understand all there is to know about Canada's new housing rebate for your new home. Use the knowledge of the refund to invest in real estate.

The New House Rebate: What You Need to Know

Buying a new home can be an exciting prospect, but it can also be quite stressful. Here are some tips to make the process a little easier.

What Should You Look For In a New Home? - Properly

What Should You Look For in a New Home?

A mortgage calculator helps you see the big picture, and helps you understand how much you can afford to spend on a home.

Why Use a Mortgage Calculator? - Properly

Why Use a Mortgage Calculator?

Finding a mortgage is a confusing process. This article explains the types of mortgages so you can pick the best one for you.

Mortgages 101: Your burning home finance questions, answered

Mortgages 101

Get the facts about what to know about down payments. Here you can learn how the down payment affects the mortgage, and learn if you qualify for any home buying programs.

What to Know About Down Payments - Properly

What to Know About A Down Payment On a House

Learn about how to get a pre approved mortgage on Properly. The article above will give you an idea on what you need to consider to get preapproved the easiest way.

How to Get a Pre Approved Mortgage - Properly

How to Get A Pre-Approved Mortgage

Real estate in Canada is a big business, but there are rules and regulations. In order to get a mortgage, you might have to take a mortgage stress test, and that means you need to know the rules.

Mortgage Stress Test: What to Know - Properly

Mortgage Stress Test: What to Know

Mortgage broker or bank — what's the difference? Find out who is the preferred choice for your real estate transaction.

Mortgage Broker vs Bank - Properly

Mortgage Broker vs Bank: What's the Difference?

Receiving a mortgage approval is a big deal. Check out our mortgage approval tips on how to make it happen in 2021.

Mortgage Approval Tips for 2021 - Properly

Mortgage Approval Tips for 2021

Given Canada’s rising real estate prices, having bad credit can be very stressful. Here are ways you can improve your credit score for mortgage procurement.

Ways to Improve Your Credit Score for a Mortgage — Properly

Ways to Improve Your Credit Score For a Mortgage

People are often caught off-guard by the additional expenses necessary to finalize a home purchase; here’s everything you need to know about closing costs in Ontario.

How to Calculate Closing Costs in Ontario — Properly

How to Calculate Closing Costs in Ontario

Learn the major differences between fixed vs variable mortgage rates and how you can find the best mortgage lender

The key difference between fixed vs. variable mortgage rates

Fixed vs Variable Mortgage Rates

Discover all the ways to refinance your mortgage and find the best option for you so lenders can help save you money on your mortgage payments.

How to find the best lender to refinance a mortgage

How to Find the Best Lender to Refinance a Mortgage

It might be more challenging to get a loan as a self-employed borrower. Here are some factors to consider before applying.

Self Employed Mortgage Hunter - Properly

Factors to Consider as a Self Employed Mortgage Hunter

Understand how to get the most from your mortgage renewal and how to find the best mortgage rates so you can save money on mortgage payments.

Where to Start with Your Mortgage Renewal - Properly

Where to Start with Your Mortgage Renewal

Better understand the pros and cons of mortgage insurance and learn how to be confident that you are getting the right mortgage rate for your future.

Know the risks of mortgage insurance in Canada

Buying & Selling: Know the Risks of Mortgage Insurance in Canada

Searching for a private mortgage lender? We have the answers about the risks and rewards of private lenders.

Risks and Rewards of Private Mortgage Lenders - Properly

Risks and Rewards of Private Mortgage Lenders

Find out what a good minimum credit score for a mortgage is in Canada for specific types of lenders on Properly.

Good minimum credit score for a mortgage in Canada

What is a Good Minimum Credit Score for a Mortgage in Canada?

Down payments can be a pain. Is it really possible to get a no down payments mortgage in Ontario? Find out on Properly.

How to Get a No Down Payment Mortgage - Properly

How to Get a No Down Payment Mortgage

Learn about the difference between an open and closed mortgage. How will either loan affect your monthly mortgage payment?

Open vs Closed Mortgage: Which One is Right For You? - Properly

Open vs Closed Mortgage: Which One is Right For You?

Buying real estate and looking into mortgages? Find answers to your questions about a high ratio mortgage.

The High Ratio Mortgage: What Is It? - Properly

The High-Ratio Mortgage: What Is It?

How to find the best mortgages near you and other real estate market insights on Properly.

Mortgages Near Me - Properly

How to Find the Best Mortgages Near Me

Today, Properly, the Canadian tech-enabled real estate brokerage, announces $44M in Series B financing to fuel a national expansion across C

Properly raises $44M to transform the real estate experience

Today, Properly, the Canadian tech-enabled real estate brokerage, announces $44M in Series B financing to fuel a national expansion across Canada’s $400bn real estate market. Bain Capital Ventures led the financing, and was joined by strategic investors Intact Ventures, the venture arm of Canada’s largest provider of property and casualty insurance, and FCT, the leading national service provider in real estate technology and title insurance.

Properly Raises $44M in Series B Financing To Transform The Real Estate Experience In Canada

Following 2021's record-setting spring housing market in the GTA, Properly, a tech-enabled real estate brokerage, reveals how much home pric

GTA Condo Prices Rise by 44% Since 2017 Housing Peak

Following 2021's record-setting spring housing market in the GTA, Properly, a tech-enabled real estate brokerage, reveals how much home prices have appreciated since the last housing peak in 2017. By comparing the sale prices of GTA homes during the housing peak of January - April 2017 to their current Instant Estimate, Properly found significant increases in value across all housing types, with condos showing the greatest appreciation at 44 per cent, followed by townhouses with condo fees (33%), semi-detached homes (27%), freehold townhouses (26%), and detached homes (21%).

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