How AI Is Changing the Home Search — and How to Make It Work for You For most of the internet era, searching for a home meant the same ritual: set your price cap, pick a number of bedrooms, check a few boxes, and scroll. Then the real work started — sifting through pages of results, opening listing after listing, digging for the details that actually mattered. That ritual is quietly starting to give way. A growing share of home searches now begin as a conversation:... [read more]

2026 Mid-Year Market Check-In: What the First Half of the Year Tells Us About Your Next Move For two years, most Canadians watching the housing market have been braced for one of two dramatic endings: a deeper slide, or a rate-cut-fuelled boom. Buyers waited for prices to fall further. Sellers waited for 2022 prices to come back. Both camps sat on the sidelines, watching for a signal. Neither ending arrived. The market didn't crash, and it didn't take off. It did something... [read more]

House Hacking in 2026: What the Hype Got Wrong — and What Actually Works If you've spent any time on real estate TikTok in the last few years, you've probably seen the house hacking pitch. Buy a property, rent part of it out, let your tenants cover the mortgage. Live for free. Build wealth while you sleep. It sounds like the kind of thing that works great in a YouTube thumbnail and falls apart in real life. And honestly? Sometimes it does. But here's what those... [read more]

2026 Home Design Trends: What's In, What's Out, and What Buyers Are Responding To After a decade of cool grays, crisp whites, and spaces that looked more like showrooms than homes, buyers have changed what they're looking for. Call it quiet luxury — the idea that richness comes from depth, craft, and intention rather than flash and excess. It's not maximalism. It's a shift toward spaces that feel like somewhere you'd actually want to live. That shift is... [read more]

Is Buying a Home Together Right for Your Family? How to Approach Multigenerational Living For a long time, multigenerational living had a reputation problem. It was the option families turned to when something had gone wrong — a job loss, a divorce, a health crisis. Moving back in with your parents, or having your parents move in with you, meant something hadn't worked out. That story has changed pretty significantly. Today, families are choosing this arrangement on... [read more]