Scott McGillivray Quotes

Fifty years ago or a hundred years ago, generally, most people would buy a house the way you buy a car. When you buy a car, do you think, 'I better buy this year rather than next year because car prices might go up?'

The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

I think homes are a palpable form of investment, and I understand them.

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

We just went through the biggest housing bubble in history and now housing prices are starting to go up again. I don’t know what to make of that.

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

Before purchasing a fixer-upper property, make sure to look at the numbers. It is easy to become emotionally attached to a house, and buyers can lose sight of the true costs of the renovation work.

I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very infrequent purchase.

I bought my first house at 19-years old.

The housing market has bottomed. It's not too late to get involved.

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.

I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you're the owner-occupier of.

We want to help Canadians be able to get a home that they can afford.

My wife and I sold our house in L.A. and we moved out to the high desert in California, by Joshua Tree, and we're out in the middle of nowhere.

Buying a house is not an overnight decision, and people can wait for 3 to 6 months.

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.

When I was ready to buy my first home after years of renting, I immediately zeroed in on Dorchester.