The Exchange District Will Completely Transform Downtown Mississauga Jumbo shrimp. Open Secret. Virtual reality. Downtown Mississauga. Oxymorons, without a doubt. Or are they all? No. In fact, Downtown Mississauga will soon be a reality when one luxury Toronto real estate developer embarks on its plans to establish a new downtown district in the heart of…
Vancouver is on pace to lose its status as Canada’s second largest housing market to Montreal. While still Canada’s most expensive city for housing, a recent collapse in sales has led the value of real estate transactions substantially lower. That leaves Montreal’s soaring market poised to overtake the Pacific coast city’s. In January, the total…
Condo improvement projects and renovations are exciting endeavors that can have a major positive impact for years to come. Whether you’re looking to upgrade your living space or you’re looking to add value to your condofor a potential sale, these projects shouldn’t be taken lightly or without proper planning. Before you begin any projects that…
Whether you’re getting ready to put your condo on the market or just looking for ways to add value to your home investment, it’s important to consider upgrades. As you probably know by now, not all upgrades, renovations, and remodels are created equal — some will offer great returns (sometimes you can even recuperate more than…
The Canadian federal government introduced new mortgage rules in the fall of 2016 to combat rapidly increasing home prices – but have they driven up condo prices instead? In October 2016, Canada’s Department of Finance introduced a significant change to the mortgage qualifying requirements for buyers with less than a 20% down payment (known as…
A recent poll found that half of Torontonians are hoping for house prices to fall, but a new report from Royal Bank of Canada basically says “don’t hold your breath.” The modest price gains seen in Toronto and Vancouver in August are a “sign of things to come,” RBC senior economist Robert Hogue wrote in…
Rental rates for condos in Mississauga continued their ever-upward trend in the third quarter of 2018. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board’s latest quarterly tracking report, the average monthly cost to lease a one-bedroom condo in Canada’s sixth largest city rose to $1,962 between July and September. The Toronto Real Estate Board doesn’t expect…
What happens when an owner receives an incorrect status certificate issued by a condominium corporation? That was the issue in a case before the Ontario Court of Appeal earlier this year. Back in 2013, Dante Reino purchased a condo unit from his mother in a downtown highrise on Bay St. known as Metropolitan Toronto Condominium…
1. You can’t drive impaired. Though the legalization of marijuana is new, impaired driving laws are not. It has always been illegal to drive a motor vehicle while your ability to do so is impaired — whether that’s by alcohol, pot or any other drug, prescription or otherwise. Peel police officers will perform a Standardized…
It would be easy to mistake the lobby of the One o One condos in midtown Toronto for a nightclub or graffiti-splashed alley. Instead of the muted colours and cookie-cutter designs that fill many condo buildings, developer Camrost Felcorp hired Toronto artist Anthony Ricciardi to create seven murals splattered with bright paint and a rainbow…