Multiple offers now common in Toronto condo rental market

The concept of “holding offers” has long been a feature of bidding wars in Toronto's resale real estate market, and more than ever apartments are being rented through the realtor-managed MLS system. According to Urbanation Inc., a record 27,200 condo apartments were leased through MLS in the
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Lockheed Martin Corp. defended the progress of its F-35, the costliest U.S. weapons system, after the head of the Pentagon's testing office issued a critical report saying efforts to improve the fighter jet's reliability are “stagnant.” “We are confident in the F-35's transformational capability that continues to
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“Bitcoin has a resiliency to it,” he told Bloomberg in an interview. “This is something that we also feel like really fundamentally aligns with the mission of the company — to make the financial system more accessible to the rest of us.” See also: Robinhood is adding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency trading.
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Rettig would replace David Kautter, a previous Ernst & Young partner who has been the IRS's acting director for tax policy since November and is also serving as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. Kautner succeeded John Koskinen, a former non-executive secretary of Freddie Mac who
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Good morning from Davos, Switzerland, where the weather has improved considerably and a veritable hit parade of world leaders has taken the stage to promote their agendas. I promised yesterday to be brief today, and I'd like to share some high-level thoughts from two private working sessions I
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Bloomberg Television. Source: Bloomberg. Their words did little to shake Bitcoin. The digital currency was little changed and traded near the $11,000 level its been hovering around for days. That wasn't the case when South Korean regulators came to call at the end
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is cutting 400 to 500 jobs at headquarters this week, the latest effort to streamline a retail empire under threat from Amazon.com Inc. The layoffs will hit the company's marketing, human resources, merchandising, real estate, logistics and finance divisions, the Bentonville,
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And you can't use your Discover card to buy bitcoins. And Ripple owns $81 billion worth of its XRP token that banks don't use. And here is the story of the main data source for cryptocurrency prices, which is of course the Queens apartment where a 31-year-old programmer runs coinmarketcap.com.
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The Justice Department's inspector general has recovered missing text messages from two FBI officials who sharply criticized Donald Trump, making them a flash point in the debate over the federal criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Inspector General Michael Horowitz
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This week's unemployment claims report that showed fewer new claims than economists expected. At 233,000, it missed the 240,000 that analysts had expected — not good. Less unemployment can hurt those getting mortgages because it tends to fire up inflammation concerns and push rates higher.
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Several long-term economic factors, including the explosion of student debt, are making homeownership a distant goal for most millennials. In a new Apartment List report, a renter survey that elicited responses from more than 11,000 millennials across the United States, found that in-debt college
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The U.S. housing market gained back all $9 trillion in value it lost when the market collapsed in the past decade, according to new data from Zillow. However, the recovery has been unevenly spread across the country. Zillow noted that nationwide home values hit their lowest point in December 2012
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Investors sentiment decreased to 0.84 in Q3 2017. Its down 0.07, from 0.91 in 2017Q2. It dived, as 31 investors sold Mettler-Toledo International Inc. shares while 172 reduced holdings. 47 funds opened positions while 124 raised stakes. 22.26 million shares or 5.12% less from 23.46 million shares in
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High street banks approved the fewest mortgages for housebuyers for nearly half a decade in December, according to figures published on Thursday by UK Finance, the lobby group formed last year from the merger of the British Bankers' Association and the Council of Mortgage Lenders. The number of
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Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday that the rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages rose to 4.15 percent this week from 4.04 percent. That is the highest since March. The rate on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, which is popular with homeowners who are refinancing, rose to 3.62 percent, also the
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In early January 2017, Griffin bought the estate immediately to the south from Paul C. and Linda Saville at 1290 S. Ocean Blvd. Real estate broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens orchestrated both sides of all the sales, except for the one involving 70 Blossom Way, which was listed for sale by
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Oprah Winfrey isn't going to run for president, and somehow that's bad news for Weight Watchers International Inc. Shares of the weight-loss company slipped as much as 7.3 percent on Thursday — the most in almost a month — after Winfrey told InStyle magazine that she doesn't “have the DNA” to seek
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New data from the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that there were more new homes sold last year than in any year since 2007. The latest data from the Census Bureau and HUD shows that there were an estimated 608,000 new homes sold in 2017.
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Robinhood Financial LLC, which makes a popular free stock-trading app, is getting into cryptocurrency. The move gives fellow financial-technology startup Coinbase Inc. a new competitor. Digital currency trading marks the first paid product for Robinhood, which made a name for itself by letting anyone
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Insurance Administration. Day, Week, Month, Year. Please note participating agencies in the drop-down menu. Please use the Help button to the right for any assistance while using the Calendar. Click for help in using calendar displays. Print the contents of the current screen. Previous, January 2018
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