Archive for August, 2009
Feeling The Heat? Check Out Lauren’s Cool Tips To Survive Toronto’s Hot Real Estate Market
August 28th, 2009 Categories: News Wire, Toronto Bidding Wars
Hello there! This has certainly been quite the summer, weather and real estate-wise. And unless you’ve been off the Toronto real estate grid the past couple of months, you know it’s been one hot summer for wheeling and dealing.
There’s a very simple reason for this: Supply And Demand. After a very, VERY slow start to the year buyers found their confidence (apparently all at the exact same moment) and Read the rest of this entry »
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Toronto Homeowners Urged To Check Insurance Coverage
August 25th, 2009 Categories: Home Ownership, News Wire
How fitting IS it that the seventieth anniversary of the release of “The Wizard of Oz” (that would be August 25, 1939) occurs just days after tornadoes ripped through southern Ontario?
With respect to weather and other natural phenomenon, Toronto seems to be ideally situated, geographically speaking. The weather, and the reactions to it, can be Read the rest of this entry »
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Toronto Real Estate Market Performance: August 2009 Mid-Month Statistics
August 19th, 2009 Categories: Mid-Month Statistics, News Wire
Welcome to my mid-month activity report for the Toronto 2009 real estate market. Brief and to the point, it’s my virtual flip chart of the numbers Toronto buyers and sellers can use over time to Read the rest of this entry »
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Is Now A Good Time To Buy In The Toronto Real Estate Market? I Dunno. But YOU Do!
August 16th, 2009 Categories: Home Buyers, News Wire
It would be an understatement to say that it’s been a WILD Toronto summer, both weather-wise and in the hot-again real estate market. At long (long!) last, Toronto home buyers found their confidence. And once the decision was made by pre-approved buyers to take their Read the rest of this entry »
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Front Door Fascination: Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion
August 10th, 2009 Categories: Front Door Fascination, Photographs
Technically … technically … there is no front door. Nevertheless, that’s a pretty spectacular entrance. Attention must be paid!
Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion, built in 1922, is one of the fanciest changing rooms I’ve ever seen. And even though it’s now well past its glory days (read: a tad seedy), there’s still lots of activity in the pavilion’s cafe, patio and terraces, as well as on Sunnyside Beach.
I can’t help but think that early twentieth-century Torontonians had a MUCH grander vision of how to make use of the waterfront than today’s urban planners and developers.
Yeah, that’s gonna cost me!
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Toronto Real Estate Market Report: July 2009 Statistics
August 7th, 2009 Categories: Market Reports, News Wire
Resale record for July! The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has just released the July 2009 numbers for the City of Toronto, as well as the overall Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Let’s take a look at the numbers Toronto buyers and sellers need to know when making Read the rest of this entry »
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