People living in Canada’s largest city will increasingly need to make a choice between a long commute to work and living in a condo as housing affordability continues to erode. In a new report called Priced Out, the Pembina Institute and RBC say there’s no end in sight to high-priced single-family homes in Toronto. While […]
Calling all Skaters!! Our Winter Session at Caledon Centennial Skating Club is almost here!! We offer programs to suit all abilities. Kinderskate | Canskate | Starskate | Power Skating Registration will take place: Tuesday, December 3rd from 6pm to 7pm @ Lloyd Wilson Arena, 1551 McLaughlin Rd, Inglewood Thursday, December 5th from 6pm to 7pm […]
On a sunny autumn morning in Forest Hill, Koryn Greenspan is hard at work. Her four-legged charges — two labradoodles, a black Labrador, and a collie — keep her moving briskly along the Kay Gardiner Beltline trail. “I like to say that my life has gone to the dogs and my clients. It feels like […]
The staff @ Accurate Appraisals would like to thank the Minister of Transport (Glen Murray) and his staff for their promised commitment (spring 2014) to upgrade the traffic lights and ameliorate the environs of the intersection at Highway 10 and Olde base line in Caledon. Clearly none of this would have been possible if it […]
NASA will hold a live Google+ hangout on Thursday (Nov. 28) to webcast the solar passage of Comet ISON as it whips around the sun. The webcast will begin at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) and last until 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT). You will be able to watch the webcast here at start time.
The Condo Game examines the forces at play behind the fastest moving condo market in North America – Toronto – and discovers that the glittering glass hides a sea of troubles. The first startling revelation for many people will be how very much the condo market is focused on investor profit, not affordable housing. One […]
The doomsayers of the Canadian housing market got a fresh round of ammunition this week. First, the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development warned of the risk of a “disorderly correction” in the Canadian real estate market. Then the credit-rating firm Fitch Ratings said the country’s residential prices are overvalued by 21 per cent. Homes […]
It is a great honour to be invited to join the Bering Strait Swim Relay Team and also to have an opportunity to represent Ireland on this historic expedition. Although I have swam in the North Atlantic Ocean all my life I only started distance sea swimming in 2002. Over the past 11 years I […]
A dip in monthly home sales isn’t necessarily a bad sign The Globe’s Jacqueline Nelson breaks down the Canadian Real Estate Association’s latest snapshot of Canada’s housing market, which showed sales down in October from a month earlier, but up from year-ago levels. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/market-view-video/a-dip-in-monthly-home-sales-isnt-necessarily-a-bad-sign/article15456514/
The ‘illegal’ walk-in closet that’s costing this woman over $16,000 A woman is being asked to pay to remove a walk-in closet in her condo that the board says violates the bylaws. Lea Williams-Doherty explains http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-video/video-the-illegal-walk-in-closet-thats-costing-this-woman-over-16000/article15539997/