In this podcast, Jennifer Edey of Bond Consulting explains how eligible businesses, maybe yours, are eligible for the CRA's SR&ED program.

In this podcast, Jennifer Edey walks you through the SR&ED program to show you how Bond Consulting can help you access money Revenue Canada has set aside for eligible businesses.

One of the x-factors in understanding the Toronto Real Estate market is the issue of detached versus non-detached homes.

In her podcast, The Case For The Detached Home, Farrah Ranjbar points out the discrepancy between the two types of homes coming out of the market correction.

Continually affordable interest rates and a favourable outlook for the second quarter of 2018 has given buyers and sellers a great platform for understanding the new rules of the market.

Turned off by spiralling prices for detached homes in the city, buyers had begun flooding into the condo market. But recent figures show the price of detached homes in many Toronto core areas dropping to $1.7 million from $2.1 million.

As always, Farrah's advice to prospective buyers and sellers is simple. Take advantage of the elements a stable market gives you. You can secure your financing with a firm idea on the value of your home.

And consider your home as something other than an investment. Your home isn't just a profit centre, Farrah said, "it's a place you want to live with your family."

Farrah Ranjbar's advice to followers of Toronto Real Estate is simple enough: it's a great time to buy or sell.

Media reports routinely say the market has dropped by 40 per cent from the boom days of only a few months ago.

Whether or not that is entirely true - a boatload of factors including the type of home, the neighbourhood and region mean there is no true single measure of the market- there is no doubt that the long-anticipated correction has come and gone.

Farrah's advice.

1. Everything starts with financing. Buyers and sellers now have a much better idea on what homes will fetch. There is no reason to be caught short. "Your buying power," Farrah said, "shouldn't be a surprise."

2. There is probably no second-wave adjustment coming. The cool-down was largely influenced by government policy on lending and offshore ownership. Those changes have been integrated into the marketplace.

3. Yes, your home is an investment, an enormous one, but it is also the place you and your family will live. Find a home you like and can afford and let natural appreciation do the work for you.

4. One of the most recent factors influencing that growth: the movement among corporations to return to urban areas where they can find talent pools.

As always, Farrah's podcast is a mixture of good humor, insight and compassion.

Thomas Wade talks with Jay Semko about the life and trials of time on the road as one of Canada's premier musical acts.

Milo the Clown talks about what got him started in the profession. he may not have been the class-clown but he is now.

Pat Petruccelli is reclaiming the home in Hamilton he grew up in, with the help of White Willow CEO Daniel Ott.

Pat walks a visitor through the house and gives an oral history of the life of his family, led by his father who spent five years in Canada before being able to bring the rest of the Petruccelli clan to Canada.

Woven in among the stories is a reminder: while Daniel's job is about design, his responsibility is to the current, future, and even past owners of a home.

Jane Allison hosts of Side Roads on RadioU.ca, as she sits down with Dana Robbins.

In her second podcast, Sotheby's Residential Real Estate specialist Farrah Ranjbar says its time to talk sellers down from the cliff: if they're willing to come down.

Sellers who believe they can get the same prices comparable homes fetched in the height of the real estate bubble, Farrah says, are in for a disappointment.

Instead, she advises clients to look at prices from a little further back. While inventory is still limited, houses are selling Farrah advises sellers to look forward instead of back.

"If a seller is being realistic and looking at the offers on the table, it's still a very good number."

Telling a vendor that uncomfortable truth, Farrah admits, can be tough but no agent can change the market. An honest reckoning is what her clients pay her for.

"The only way to make the best decision," she said, "is to know the facts."

In her inaugural podcast, Farrah Ranjbar talks about her why, how she arrived in Toronto as a 14-year-girl from Iran and how the wonder of this new city and country has never left her.

Understanding Toronto Real Estate is as insightful and honest as the woman herself - Farrah Ranjbar.