Romana King

Romana King is an award-winning personal finance writer, real estate expert, Contributing Editor at Zolo Homebase, and a best-selling Amazon author of House Poor No More: 9 Steps that Grow the Value of Your Home and Net Worth. Romana has contributed to various business and lifestyle publications including CBC.ca, Toronto Sun, Maclean’s, MoneySense, Globe & Mail Custom Content Team, among others.

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A Provincial Guide to Senior Housing Options and Home Care

Find out if you're eligible for senior housing assistance in your province.

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Overestimate Your Financial Knowledge — Pay the Price

Majority of Canadians are confident about finances, even after failing a basic financial literacy test

Majority of Households Out of Money in Less Than 90 Days

Financial literacy for kids and adults is vital for improving quality of life

The Real Estate Listing Words That Sell a Home

Struggling with your property description? Here's a list of the most used real estate listing words to help sell your home and capture homebuyers

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Your Next Renovation Project According to Your Province

Renovating your home but not sure where to begin? This list of the most searched home renovation projects by province will get you started

Best Provinces for Accessibility in Canada

Accessibility is on the rise in Canada. Here's a ranking for the best provinces for accessibility in Canada based on 11 key indicators

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How to Find Tiny House Communities Worldwide

While most tiny home communities are still located in North America, advocates of the small house movement can now be found across the world

Map of Tiny Home Communities Around the World

Small or no mortgage, lower utility bills, and no place to hide if you have a fight with your spouse…welcome to tiny home living. Ever since tiny homes...

Freelance, Contractor, Work-From-Home vs Digital Nomad: What’s the Difference?

Over two decades ago, many jobs that required a computer and a connection to the Internet required dedicated office space. A variety of professionals,...

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Best Work-From-Home and Remote Work Jobs

Here's where to find skilled and unskilled freelance and remote work jobs

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How to Convince Your Employer to Let You Work Remotely?

Here are tips to help establish a remote-first policy at your place of work

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Penticton Offers City-Living in Okanagan’s Wine-Country

In the Property Report, we focus on the latest development in Penticton, a growing city about an hour south of Kelowna, B.C. and in the heart of the Okanagan...

Homesteading Guide

Increase your self-reliance by easily adopting homesteading principles and practises with tips on how to garden, canning, and urban homesteading.

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Basics of the Urban Homestead

Basic principles of gardening and food self-sufficiency for the beginner homesteader

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Beginner’s Guide to Canning Jars (with 4 Starter Recipes)

Simple tips to start canning and preserving food for your own urban homestead

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Ask RK: Is COVID-19 Going to Cause a Housing Crash in 2020? (And What About Other Property Sectors?)

Faced with high unemployment, continued lockdowns and low immigration, there are rumours that housing markets are going to crash in 2020, but does a struggling...

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Ask RK: Tips for Norovirus Prevention in the Home

Renovations continued despite the pandemic outbreak, but homeowners are reconsidering what materials to use and the updates to invest in based on the latest...

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Ask RK: We Use the Wrong Average for Housing Prices

The 'average' housing price offers a simple, ‘balanced’ representation of housing market data, which can be very helpful but also be very misleading....

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Homebuyers Hit Pause, but Still Intend to Purchase

Almost half (47%) of homebuyers still plan on buying a home in the next five years and more than half (52%) want online and virtual tools to...

14 Steps to Make Sure You Live In a COVID-Free Home

Doctors are now being encouraged to disinfect their footwear, after a new study shows that the novel coronavirus 'can survive on shoes' and transfers to other...

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Ask RK: Strategies to Buy and Sell a Home in the Time of COVID-19

A renowned economist recently suggested that the best way to treat COVID-19’s economic impact is to "keep the lights on." Here are six strategies buyers,...

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How Will COVID-19 Impact Real Estate?

Zolo analyzed 20 years of sales data, including 5 prior catastrophes, to understand how COVID-19 will impact real estate markets. Based on this analysis,...

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Impact of COVID-19 on Greater Toronto’s Housing Market (Infographic)

In the first month of COVID-19, only one of the six major regions in the GTA reported a slight price decline (less than 1%). While the full impact of this...

Life Insurance and Estate Planning in the Age of COVID-19

The purpose of life insurance is to help plan for future, unknowable but potentially devastating events. But life insurance can be tricky to navigate — even...