Before Jenuja Thayaparan and her husband listed their home in Ajax, Ont., for sale they updated the bathrooms and repainted the main floor. Knowing the real estate market is slowing down from the frenzied pace of the past few years, Ms. Thayaparan says they wanted to get the best price possible. “We knew that we needed to update the home a little bit, given that our home was a little on th...Read More

It was crazy how quickly the market turned, says realtor Dajan Kumarasamy. “It was like a flip of a switch,” he says. He had three or four homes listed in March. One week those houses were drawing 15 to 20 offers. The next week, it was two or three. “I was so shocked. I was like, ‘What is going on?’ And then I was telling all the people in my pipeline, ‘Hey, i...Read More