{"id":43,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/shankhurrum-com\/2026\/09\/30\/the-5-costs-buyers-forget\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"the-5-costs-buyers-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/the-5-costs-buyers-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Costs Buyers Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Buying your first home in the Greater Toronto Area involves more than saving a down payment. Buyers often overlook land transfer taxes, legal fees, title insurance, inspection costs, immediate repairs, moving expenses, utility setup and the ongoing cost of maintaining a property. Toronto purchasers may also face both provincial and municipal land transfer tax. Building these items into your budget early can prevent stressful surprises after closing. Before submitting an offer, review a complete cost estimate with your lender, lawyer and real estate professional, and keep an emergency reserve for the unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying your first home in the Greater Toronto Area involves more than saving a down payment. Buyers often overlook land transfer taxes, legal fees, title insurance, inspection costs, immediate repairs, moving expenses, utility setup and the ongoing cost of maintaining a property. Toronto purchasers may also face both provincial and municipal land transfer tax. Building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankhurrum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}