Stats, smats! The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has just released the October 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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

The cell phone serves me; I don’t serve the cell phone. So Bill 118, the new provincial law which took effect today and bans the use of (more…) Share This Read Full Story

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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

Just in! The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has just released the September 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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

Many people refer to this as the summer that never happened. Because it didn’t. To recap: chilly, chilly, rain, chilly, rain, raaaiiiin, hot once or twice, overcast, chilly, high winds, tornadoes, and then glorious September weekends. I’ve been out on my bike on the Toronto lakefront trails the last couple of weekends, making up for my summer spent in the Toronto real estate bidding war trenches. (And for those who are curious: won some, lost some.) I’m biased: this is my favourite time of ye... Read Full Story

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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

Summer’s over! The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has just released the August 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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story

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 (more…) Share This Read Full Story