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If your older Winnipeg house has a bad sewer line, you have three choices. You can repair it before you sell, you can sell as-is and let the buyer price it in, or you can get a camera inspection first so everyone knows exactly what they’re dealing with. One fact surprises most Winnipeg owners: you … Continued

If your home insurance has been cancelled or refused in Manitoba, you have four realistic options. You can buy special risk insurance to stay covered for now. You can shop the house through other brokers. You can ask your insurer exactly what needs fixing and negotiate. Or you can sell. Don’t sit uninsured while you … Continued

If your furnace dies in a Winnipeg winter, the first job isn’t selling the house. It’s protecting the plumbing. Call Manitoba Hydro, because for gas furnaces they offer a no-charge labour service on gas-supply and combustion problems. If you can’t keep the heat on, shut off the water and drain the lines. Once the house … Continued

Yes, you can sell a house in Winnipeg that has a reverse mortgage on it. The loan is repaid out of the sale proceeds on closing day, exactly like a regular mortgage, and whatever is left belongs to you or your estate. What catches people out is the payout figure itself: interest has been compounding … Continued

If you sell your Winnipeg house before your mortgage term ends, your lender will usually charge a prepayment penalty to discharge the mortgage early. On a variable-rate mortgage that is normally three months’ interest. On a fixed-rate mortgage it is usually the higher of three months’ interest or the interest rate differential, and the differential … Continued

If your parent is alive but can no longer manage their affairs, and the house needs to be sold, perhaps to pay for a personal care home, the person who signs is their attorney under an enduring power of attorney. In Manitoba that works well when the document is properly worded, properly witnessed and gives … Continued

Manitoba changed its rent control rules in September 2026, and many Winnipeg landlords who thought their units were exempt no longer are. From January 1, 2027, a unit is only exempt from the rent increase guideline if its rent on December 31 of the previous year was $2,000 a month or more, up from $1,670. … Continued

Selling a Winnipeg duplex or rental property is a different transaction from selling the house you live in, and the difference is not mainly about price. It is about the people already living there. Manitoba’s rules on ending a tenancy because of a sale are specific, they favour the tenant, and they are the single … Continued

Most people facing a mortgage default in Manitoba ask about the house first and their credit second. That order is backwards. The house is one transaction, and how it ends is largely decided by the calendar. Your credit file is what you carry into the next five or six years of renting, borrowing, insuring a … Continued

Your listing agreement ran out and the house did not sell. Before the calls start — and they will, because expired listings are the most contacted list in real estate — it is worth spending an hour working out why it did not sell. There are only a few real reasons, they are diagnosable, and … Continued

Winnipeg’s 2026 market has been doing two things at once, and which one matters depends entirely on whether you are buying or selling. Prices keep setting records. Sales keep running below last year. For a seller deciding whether to list this fall or move faster, that combination is the whole story — and it is … Continued

A work relocation gives you a fixed date and a house that has to be dealt with by it, and those two things rarely cooperate. The decision comes down to three options: list it and hope it sells before you go, sell it fast for certainty, or keep it and rent it out from another … Continued

Downsizing is rarely just a real estate decision. It usually arrives attached to a health change, a partner’s death, stairs that stopped being manageable, or adult children who live somewhere else now. The house is the easiest part to solve. This article covers the parts that actually decide whether a downsizing move goes well: the … Continued