If you are anything like me, you may be wondering what happened to summer this year. Nights were cool, temperatures over 30 degrees were rare, and the humidity haters were one happy lot. Still, even […]
Planning on buying a house this Spring in Toronto? Then you have likely gone through your check list. Down payment? Check! Pre-approval from the bank? Check! An estimate of what land transfer tax you will […]
In the spirits of the Olympics, I thought I would discuss something of a competitive nature. That is, I thought I would explore some recently compiled stats on homes in Toronto neighbourhoods and how they […]
Bidding Wars. Buyers hate them. Sellers love em. They are certainly less pervasive in real estate than they were 7 years ago. In fact, some Torontonians are starting to get the impression that bidding wars have disappeared […]
I want Toronto to be a better place. I know that sounds all warm and fuzzy. I mean, who actually wants Toronto to be a worse place than it is? But some times, when I see […]
A couple of months ago, when I was obsessed with the Olympics, I suggested that the housing market and the condo market were not in sync any longer. They are synchronized divers no more, to […]
Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods. We’ve all hard this countless time. It’s all a part of the Toronto brand. And though this point may have been driven home a little too much at times, […]
Usually in these rants, I like to go on about the city as a whole or zone in on a specific emerging neighbourhood – those transforming areas of Toronto that are changing from downtrodden or […]
You know, I went to a nice little restaurant, last night, called Zocalo. Less than year old. It was set up on Bloor Street near Lansdowne and Bloor, an intersection famous for it’s low-end strip […]
