A realtor has left the internet in disbelief after sharing the ‘creepy’ discovery she found inside a home.
Jessica Law is a Florida-based real estate agent who frequently showcases the houses she is selling on her TikTok channel, where she has garnered over 2,300 followers.
Most recently, the home seller took to the video-sharing platform to show off her unsettling find, which sent shivers down viewers’ spines.
In a clip, which has so far amassed over 1.9 million views, Jessica revealed that she has never found something as ‘scary’ in a home during her 10 years in the industry.
She captioned the video, ‘Things that make you go hmm,’ before branding the home as ‘creepy’ and ‘scary.’
Showing the inside of one of the bedrooms, she said; ‘Pov, you show a house and find where they hid them.’
‘I’m not going to lie, in all my years of doing real estate, I have never had something quite like this come up,’ the property expert said.
Jessica explained that she had opened a door, which she thought led to a closet, however, found something much more unsettling instead.
‘This iron door with a swinging latch that leads down to an underground room that’s all concrete was there,’ she said.
Jessica revealed that the home was built in 1958 before she headed down the eerie stairs and into the darkness to explore the underground room.
She added: ‘So we’re going down into what could only be described as a basement. There is electricity, water, and a dehumidifier.’
The room surely sent shivers down Jessica’s spine as she revealed it gave her a ‘little bit of a pause.’
The concrete room featured an extremely bland design, with just a small rug and a beanbag inside.
At the end of the clip, Jessica asked: ‘Would you want to hang out in this room?’
People flooded the comments and shared their shock at the footage of the scary room – with many even begging the real estate agent to ‘call the cops.’
One person said: ‘Cops. Immediately. Just in case you could solve several cold cases.’
Someone else wrote: ‘Some call that a basement, others call it a dungeon.’
Another user added: ‘It locks from the inside, [it’s a] panic room.’
TORONTO – One expert predicts Ottawa‘s changes to mortgage rules will help spur demand among potential homebuyers but says policies aimed at driving new supply are needed to address the “core issues” facing the market.
The federal government’s changes, set to come into force mid-December, include a higher price cap for insured mortgages to allow more people to qualify for a mortgage with less than a 20 per cent down payment.
The government will also expand its 30-year mortgage amortization to include first-time homebuyers buying any type of home, as well as anybody buying a newly built home.
CIBC Capital Markets deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal calls it a “significant” move likely to accelerate the recovery of the housing market, a process already underway as interest rates have begun to fall.
However, he says in a note that policymakers should aim to “prevent that from becoming too much of a good thing” through policies geared toward the supply side.
Tal says the main issue is the lack of supply available to respond to Canada’s rapidly increasing population, particularly in major cities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 17,2024.
OTTAWA – The Canadian Real Estate Association says the number of homes sold in August fell compared with a year ago as the market remained largely stuck in a holding pattern despite borrowing costs beginning to come down.
The association says the number of homes sold in August fell 2.1 per cent compared with the same month last year.
On a seasonally adjusted month-over-month basis, national home sales edged up 1.3 per cent from July.
CREA senior economist Shaun Cathcart says that with forecasts of lower interest rates throughout the rest of this year and into 2025, “it makes sense that prospective buyers might continue to hold off for improved affordability, especially since prices are still well behaved in most of the country.”
The national average sale price for August amounted to $649,100, a 0.1 per cent increase compared with a year earlier.
The number of newly listed properties was up 1.1 per cent month-over-month.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024.
MONTREAL – Two Quebec real estate brokers are facing fines and years-long suspensions for submitting bogus offers on homes to drive up prices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christine Girouard has been suspended for 14 years and her business partner, Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin, has been suspended for nine years after Quebec’s authority of real estate brokerage found they used fake bids to get buyers to raise their offers.
Girouard is a well-known broker who previously starred on a Quebec reality show that follows top real estate agents in the province.
She is facing a fine of $50,000, while Dauphinais-Fortin has been fined $10,000.
The two brokers were suspended in May 2023 after La Presse published an article about their practices.
One buyer ended up paying $40,000 more than his initial offer in 2022 after Girouard and Dauphinais-Fortin concocted a second bid on the house he wanted to buy.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 11, 2024.
