Recently, my husband and I began the process of buying a home in Canada. As first-time homebuyers, we decided the best route for us was to buy our house pre-construction, so we set off on the arduous homeownership journey that would last more than a year. As new immigrants, we…
The question of whether we’d be building vs buying a home didn’t come up until well into our search to buy our first home in Canada. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I suppose I thought buying a new-build home was something people with infinite financial resources do. Well,…