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The Future Of Urban Toronto

January 11, 2012 - Imagine the near future; you land at the airport from your vacation abroad. Within minutes of arrival, you speed through the terminal using your hand print and matching bio-metric identity scan passports to bypass the immigration line-ups. Your partner picks you up, and zooms on to the highway, choosing one…
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Locks Or Stocks? Which Should I Buy?

November 30, 2011 - Given the roller coaster ride in the stock market recently, more and more investors are asking me whether they should place their capital in bricks and mortar rather than in stocks. The currently volatile environment breathes new life into an age old argument- “Stocks Or Locks, Which Should I Buy?”.…
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Is Toronto’s Real Estate Market ‘Too Good To Be True’?

October 17, 2011 - As one of Toronto's top-producing realtors, it's amazing I began my real estate career in 1989 just as the Toronto housing bubble burst. Lucky me, eh? But boy did I learn a lot during the early years of my career. The magnitude of that housing market collapse was so substantial, it…
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Fashion In Housing

September 16, 2011 - This may surprise you, but the fashion forward aren’t the only people who monitor the trends and styles that designers send down the runway. Economists and realtors like myself also look to cool hunters in the fashion world to forecast consumer consciousness and behaviour. Of course, fashion and real estate…
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The Seasons To Real Estate

June 10, 2011 - Much like in nature, there are seasons to Real Estate. While there are four distinct seasons in our Canadian climate, the real estate market has but three, each with its own unique characteristics that contribute to the cyclic nature of buying and selling real estate. Think of summer, with its…
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Bully Offers & Bidding Wars - Strategies for Buying and Selling

January 24, 2011 - Whether you’re just keeping tabs or you’re an active participant in Toronto’s real estate market you’ve probably heard the terms ‘bidding war’ and ‘bully offer’. Here’s a brief summary that explains the motivations and circumstances which, in any market condition, create these situations. A ‘bidding war’ is when more than…
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Spring Summer 2011 Real Estate Forecast

January 24, 2011 - Just like Spring flowers bursting into bloom, count on our Toronto real estate market to burst with fresh vigor as early as January with a consistent volume of sales and solid prices. Depending on the price point, location and type of dwelling, we may also see prices blossom in segments…
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Value in Buildings

November 09, 2010 - As a prudent buyer or homeowner, it’s crucial you understand how the six layers of a building inﬂuence value. These six layers—Site, Structure, Skin, Services, Space Plan, and Stuff (the furnishings), as illustrated in the diagram, all impact a property’s value—both in the marketplace and as a real cost. SITE—The…
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Recapturing Soulfulness In Your Urban Homelife

October 27, 2010 - In Canada’s pioneering history, shelter was once connected to the soil and the site, with timber logs split on ends for walls and stones stacked for a stable foundation. The use of natural materials for the creation of a homestead became an extension of the landscape – and with it…
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Understanding Our Market Momentum

June 30, 2010 - Do you wonder why our real estate economy has continued to grow even when you suspect it should not? As a realtor engaged in the trade of property over the past twenty years throughout the City of Toronto, I’ve witnessed the property economy boom, bubble, collapse and recover into the…
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