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Selling and buying Toronto real estate just got a little easier thanks to a trusted area website. A long-standing website, MyCityToronto.com, announced plans to add a new real estate page to their already burgeoning website. Currently, the website is a local business directory featuring thousands of businesses in the Toronto area. More than 380 categories of businesses are featured on the website including real estate.

Century 21 released results of a survey today indicating that a Langley neighbourhood is the hottest real-estate market in the Lower Mainland.

CALGARY - New housing prices across the country fell by three per cent in April compared with a year ago, primarily because of continuing declines in western Canadian centres.

VANCOUVER – A Richmond man who bought a new $3.5-million condominium at the University of B.C. can rescind the purchase contract because he was not fully informed about changes to the development, a judge has ruled.

Toronto’s real estate market has rebounded from dismal record lows, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board. House sales rose last month — up 2% from last May — for the first time since sales plummeted in the fall. Melissa Leong offers five things you should know:

Sherry Chris admits the timing could have been better. When she launched her real estate company last summer in the United States, the stock market was imploding, while the U.S. housing market was seeing record foreclosures.

TORONTO, ON CANADA — (OfficialWire) — 05/28/09 — estate agents, home buyers and home sellers in Toronto have a powerful tool in common; www.RealEstate.MyCityToronto.com. Nowhere else is there such a complete directory of Toronto’s top agents and their listings.

CALGARY - Commercial real estate investment in the Greater Calgary Area has fallen to its lowest level since 2001.

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON: IHG, NYSE: IHG (ADRs)], the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, announced today that the company’s first LEED-certified hotel in Canada will host a groundbreaking ceremony on May 26, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. The Holiday Inn Express® and Suites Saint-Hyacinthe will be the first hotel in Quebec built to meet the criteria of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System for its sustainable practices.

Just as Toronto's real estate market begins to recover, realtors and home builders are worried Ontario's new harmonized sales tax could send sales plummeting again.