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By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Today, the St. Lawrence Supper Club meets at the Hot House Restaurant, at the corner of Church and Front Street starting at 5.30 PM. The cost is $30 cash at the door.   The Supper Club will hear about the ‘Options for the Future’, of the Gardiner Expressway East. Currently, there is heavy traffi...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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  Waterfront Toronto and Menkes Developments   Yesterday, representatives of Waterfront Toronto announced plans for a new 350,000 sq. ft. Innovation Centre  that is expected to provide about 2,000 new jobs in the city.    The private sector, namely Menkes Developments is going to fund the buildin...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Condominium Rental Units  versus  Purpose-Built Rental-Building Units   Recently, Urbanation has been engaged in consulting work, for the market in new purpose-built rental buildings.   In their research they found that some new purpose-built apartment rental projects have been achieving higher ...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Local –a condominium project at Fort York Blvd in Toronto, ON   This project is located south of Fort York Blvd and north of Lakeshore Blvd. Local is a 15-storey boutique building in Onni’s master-plan community in the Fort York area. It is under construction and scheduled for completion this ye...

By Diane Plant, Broker, TorontoHomeSearch: Forest Hill Real Estate
(Forest Hill Real Estate Inc, Brokerage)
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Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 4,355 home sales through the TorontoMLS system during January 2015.  up 6.1 % over January 2014. During the same period, new listings were up by 9.5 %. The average selling price for January 2015 home sales was up by 4.9 % year-over-year to $552,575. The MLS® Home P...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Items to freshen-up the home space   In the Winter we keep the windows and doors closed, so as to keep the warmth in and not let the cold air in. Many homes today, especially condo units are energy-efficient ‘sealed’ spaces.   So, people buy items to freshen-up the air in the space.  Some of the...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Toronto, ON was named the best overall city to live in, by the U.K.-based magazine, The Economist.       Factors that were taken into account for the ranking were based on business environment, democracy, food security, safety and livability indices.   Although the overall rank was #1; Toronto wa...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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  A short list to keep Buyers and Sellers Happy.   To have a successful business in real estate we have to make sure Buyers and Sellers feel we have given them good service:   1.   We have to get to know our clients and build a professional relationship. Listen to them and also make sure to respo...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Interest rate competition?  - to help move the fence sitters.   Last week when the Bank of Canada cut the interest rate, the big banks were not in a rush to cut interest rates, but this week the talk is that the Royal Bank of Canada is the first of the big banks to drop its 5 year fixed rate to ...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Toronto, ON The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey done annually lists the most expensive and least expensive housing markets in the metropolitan areas of the world.   In their 11th annual report that was just released in January 2015, Toronto, ON is listed as the 3rd most exp...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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BoC Breaking News.   The Bank of Canada made a surprise announcement today. For the first time since September 2010 the BoC cut its overnight lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point to ¾ percent.   This in turn will affect mortgage rates and probably the real estate market activity.   Th...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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 Condo Sales in the last quarter of 2014   In the last quarter of 2014, 4975 condominium units were reported as sold on the Toronto MLS system. This is an 8.3% increase over the last quarter of 2013.   Although the number of re-sale units listed for sale grew in that 2014 time period and also add...

By Anne Lok, Toronto Modern Real Estate
(Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Toronto Realty)
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Charmin Upper Beach 3 Bedrm Executive Rental OverviewMapsPhotosDescriptionNeighborhood $3,200 Residential Rental Main Features 3 Bedrooms1 Bathroom1 Partial Bathroom Location 2086 Gerrard St EastM4E 2B1Toronto, ONCanada ANNE LOK Homelife/Realty One Ltd. Brokerage416-922-5533anne@annelok.comhttp:...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Toronto Condo Rentals   The number of units rented across the Greater Toronto Area in 2014 increased by 15% over the previous year, according to the Market Research firm Urbanation.   New rental units that are becoming available, from the release of keys to buyers in the newly completed condo bu...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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    Toronto’s First Post Office (or Fourth York Post Office) is at 260 Adelaide Street East, and it continues to offer all the services, as an authorised dealer of Canada Post.   It is also a museum now, and you can get a reproduction of the historic cancel, in red ink; just like it was in its ea...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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First Pedestrian Tunnel -Under Water to an Airport     The world's first pedestrian tunnel under water to an airport is due to be completed this year.   This project under taken by the Toronto Port Authority involves building a pedestrian tunnel across Toronto's Western Gap to connect Billy Bisho...

By Rosalind Nicholas, Toronto Condo Real Estate Agent, Toronto ON
(RE/MAX Condos Plus Corporation, Brokerage)
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Toronto, ON - Downtown Waterfront Development   A new development is being planned for the Toronto Downtown Waterfront at 143 Queens Quay East. The main intersections are Queens Quay East and Jarvis St. It will include an arts community, a music venue and another branch of George Brown College. W...

By Diane Plant, Broker, TorontoHomeSearch: Forest Hill Real Estate
(Forest Hill Real Estate Inc, Brokerage)
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  Report Toronto Estate Market Year 2014   There were 92,867 residential sales through the TorontoMLS system in 2014, including 4,446 in December. This represented a 6.7 % increase over the 2013 sales figure of 87,049 and was just short of the record set in 2007.   While home prices certainly inc...

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