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April the Best Month Ever: Toronto Real Estate Board

It’s dog eat dog out there. The Toronto Real Estate Board just announced that April was the best month ever recorded for sales with 9542 sales. April 30th was said to be the best single day ever with 581 reported sales. With four months gone by so far, 2007 is 5% ahead of last year’s pace for sales. Wow.

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Don’t Lose Your Head: How to Survive a Bidding War

It’s crazy out there. The spring real estate season is well underway and as a result hundreds of Torontonians are suffering from PBWS (Post Bidding War Syndrome). Common symptoms include dizziness, lack of sleep, and a major case of the shoulda woulda couldas.

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I Have Seen the Future of Real Estate and it Worx

As someone who makes a living by helping people buy and sell real estate, I have to be honest, a lot of the recent developments in our city have left me feeling uninspired. I’m not going to name names, but often it seems that Toronto’s collective architectural and development communities have seriously let down our city.

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Is Now a Good Time to Buy?

It’s that time of year again. The weather is warming up, the Maple Leafs are booking their tee times (sorry Leafs’ fans), and ‘For Sale’ signs are popping up on front lawns across the city. Yep, the Real Estate season is in full swing. It’s about this time every year that thousands of Torontonians ask themselves, is now a good time to buy? Would I be better off renting?

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Kazakhstani Developer Unveils Plans for ‘International Icon’ at Yonge and Bloor: You Like?

Yesterday morning, to a surprisingly large gathering of the local media at Panorama, Bazis International revealed its plans for an 80-storey condo tower at Yonge and Bloor. The name for the project? Quite simply, 1 Bloor.

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Is 600 Square Feet the New Normal?

It used to be that a detached, 3-bedroom house with a 2-car garage was seen not so much as a dream to work towards, but a glorious climax to the consumerist life. Not so anymore.

The ever rising cost of housing in the city, along with increasing concern on how our lifestyle and choices affect the environment has got a lot of home buyers asking themselves, ‘how much space do I really need?’.

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Kazakhstani Developer to Transform Yonge and Bloor: Very Niiice!

Leave it to the Kazakhstanis. Just days after Donald Trump was in town and it was announced that his 70-storey building at Bay and Adelaide was set to begin construction, Kazakhstan-based developer Bazis International declares its own plans to build an 80-storey building at Yonge and Bloor. Zing!

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Trump Drops the F-bomb on Toronto: Making Money in Real Estate is FUN!

Wondering why your coworker or classmate is looking a little worse for wear this morning? They might have been running around attending seminars and workshops at the Learning Annex’s Real Estate and Wealth Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre all weekend. Figuring out the quickest way to get rich in only 2 days is tiring stuff, let me tell you.

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Trump Says Toronto is Soft

Donald Trump, aka The Donald, is taking some time off this weekend from his budding professional wrestling career, his ongoing feud with Rosie O’Donnell, and his humanitarian work to come to Toronto and talk about Real Estate. Trump is the keynote speaker at the upcoming Real Estate and Wealth Expo at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this Saturday and Sunday.

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Small in the City or Big in the ‘Burbs?

The Feds released the data from the 2006 Canadian Census yesterday, with the major headline being that Toronto is growing slowly while the 905 is booming. Toronto’s population grew by just 0.9% since 2001 while towns like Vaughn (31%), Brampton ( 33%), and Milton ( 71%) are seeing an explosion in growth.

It seems that despite the City’s and the Province’s efforts at encouraging density, more and more people are choosing to settle in the suburbs and leave the Big Smoke behind. But could this also be a symptom of the booming Toronto Real Estate Market? Have too many buyers been ‘priced out’ of the city?

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