August 31st, 2013 | Real Estate
Sugar Beach, Downtown Toronto Even though summer is dwindling down and the heat is subsiding, the temperature continues to soar in the hot Toronto real estate market, as evidenced by the August sales stats. This stellar market just keeps on motorin’. Now that the days are slowly getting shorter, and… Read Full Entry
August 30th, 2013 | House And HomeTravel
The Road To Uma, Punakha, Bhutan As an entrepreneur obsessed with all matters of housing and home, and a Top Producing realtor, I can spread myself pretty thin consulting on development, design and renovation projects, mentoring my Student Internship program at HousePorn.ca, while leading my growing sales and marketing team.… Read Full Entry
August 28th, 2013 | Buy Of The MonthAnnex / South Annex / Seaton Village
Welcome to urbaneer.com's Home Of The Month feature, which showcases what our Buyers have recently purchased in the City of Toronto. Toronto, by and large, has conservative roots. And it's reflected in the city centre's domestic architecture which, dating mostly from the 1840s to 1930s, represents all manner of Victorian,… Read Full Entry
August 27th, 2013 | Real Estate
Are you a first time buyer? This month's HomeWatch newsletter explores the factors which influence when it's the right time for a first time buyer to purchase real estate. Addressing personal motivations, financial realities, and how a changing market may require a buyer to purchase for the long term are… Read Full Entry
August 26th, 2013 | House And HomeTravel
I hope you don't mind, but might you indulge me today? A year ago I hired a consulting firm to review urbaneer.com's website and offer us some guidance on how to best refine it. Their advice? For a real estate sales, marketing and renovation / design firm, they thought our… Read Full Entry
August 23rd, 2013 | Real Estate
Hello! I've just spent the better part of thirty hours 10 kilometers above sea level in a pressurized tin can, traveling at 70% the speed of sound, halfway around the globe, in a giant mechanical bird. Now, jet lagged and fancy free, I'm happily ensconced in the heart of The… Read Full Entry
August 21st, 2013 | Dear UrbaneerReal Estate
The media has been predicting doom and gloom for the Toronto real estate market for a long time now. In fact, pundits have been making the claim as far back as 2006 when the financial calamity that ultimately skewered the United States housing market - and many other countries around… Read Full Entry
August 19th, 2013 | Real Estate
Well, the statistics are in and they're confirming what many top producing realtors are experiencing this Summer. Buyers remain active in their search for real estate. The Toronto Multiple Listing Service had 3,359 sales reported during the first two weeks of August 2013. This result represented a 22 per cent… Read Full Entry
August 12th, 2013 | Real EstateRecommended Reads
Is your Toronto neighbourhood a bastion of well-being? The City of Toronto has a dynamite website called Wellbeing Toronto (version 2), which is a map-based visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across Toronto's neighbourhoods. It charts 11 different factors containing 160 indicators that contribute to a neighbourhood's sense of… Read Full Entry
August 9th, 2013 | Real Estate
For all the concern and caution being expressed by the media, sales volume and prices in the City of Toronto are continuing to increase. Last month, sales were up 16% from the previous year, making it the third best July on record at over 8500 trades. “We are a year… Read Full Entry