October 2019 - Home Of The Month - Little Italy

October 17th, 2019 | Buy Of The MonthCollege Street/Little Italy

Welcome to Urbaneer.com's October 2019 Home of the Month! This feature provides a snapshot of a property one of our Buyers recently purchased in the City of Toronto. This month's tale focuses specifically on the loft conversion located at 200 Clinton Street in Little Italy - located just north of College… Read Full Entry

Urbaneer’s Toronto Real Estate Forecast 2019: Part One

August 22nd, 2019 | Urbaneer's Real Estate ForecastsJunction/High Park/Bloor West/SwanseaSwansea / High Park / Bloor West VillageCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleHigh Park North / The Junction MidtownYorkville / Summerhill / RosedaleDufferin Grove / Bloorcourt VillageKing West / Niagara / Liberty VillageThe DanforthLeslieville/RiversideRiverdale / Playter EstatesCabbagetown / CorktownSt. Lawrence MarketAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyLittle PortugalQueen WestWallace/Emerson & Brockton VillageRoncesvalles Village

Welcome to Urbaneer.com’s most recent shelter prognostication - my Toronto Real Estate Forecast for the latter half of 2019! I'm going to take a little bit of a different approach in this edition. In this first part, I'll explore the Provincial and Federal governments' efforts since Spring 2017 to dampen demand and diffuse the potentiality of… Read Full Entry

Toronto Real Estate, Yellowbelt Zoning & The Missing Middle: Part Two

August 8th, 2019 | City LivingReal EstateJunction/High Park/Bloor West/SwanseaSwansea / High Park / Bloor West VillageCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleHigh Park North / The Junction MidtownYorkville / Summerhill / RosedaleDufferin Grove / Bloorcourt VillageKing West / Niagara / Liberty VillageThe DanforthLeslieville/RiversideRiverdale / Playter EstatesCabbagetown / CorktownSt. Lawrence MarketAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyLittle PortugalQueen WestWallace/Emerson & Brockton VillageRoncesvalles Village

Welcome to the second of my two-part exploration on the 'missing middle', where I discuss how a lack of housing type diversity - and the accompanying affordability challenges facing middle-income households in Toronto - is fueling a housing crisis. In Part One, I explored how restrictive and antiquated urban planning policies have impeded… Read Full Entry

Toronto Real Estate, Yellowbelt Zoning & The Missing Middle: Part One

July 18th, 2019 | Real EstateJunction/High Park/Bloor West/SwanseaSwansea / High Park / Bloor West VillageCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleHigh Park North / The Junction MidtownYorkville / Summerhill / RosedaleDufferin Grove / Bloorcourt VillageKing West / Niagara / Liberty VillageThe DanforthLeslieville/RiversideRiverdale / Playter EstatesCabbagetown / CorktownSt. Lawrence MarketAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyLittle PortugalQueen WestWallace/Emerson & Brockton VillageRoncesvalles Village

Welcome to my blog on housing, culture and design in the City of Toronto. Today I'm going to explore how a lack of housing types, along with restrictive antiquated urban planning policies, contribute to Toronto's housing crisis. Have you heard the term “missing middle” being bandied about in the press as of late?… Read Full Entry

Discover Toronto’s Vibrant Koreatown

April 30th, 2019 | City LivingAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little Italy

Often blending geographically with The Annex, Seaton Village, and Little Italy, Koreatown is most well known as the area closely surrounding Bloor Street - roughly between Markham west to Montrose – housing many of the city’s Korean restaurants retailers. But it's not quite as easy to trace Koreatown’s boundaries as… Read Full Entry

March 2019 - Home Of The Month - Kensington Market

March 28th, 2019 | Buy Of The MonthCollege Street/Little Italy

Welcome to Urbaneer.com's March 2019 Home of the Month! This feature provides a snapshot of what our Buyers have recently purchased in the City of Toronto. In this installment, I share a tale about a couple who expanded their residence from one condominium into two, before adding a third unit… Read Full Entry

Urbaneer’s Best Buys Of 2018

January 15th, 2019 | Buy Of The MonthJunction/High Park/Bloor West/SwanseaSwansea / High Park / Bloor West VillageCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleHigh Park North / The Junction King West / Niagara / Liberty VillageThe DanforthLeslieville/RiversideCabbagetown / CorktownAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyQueen West

How is 2019 treating you? Given the lack of blizzards and 5 foot tall snow drifts I'd say we're in pretty good shape for mid-January! As a final reflection on the year gone by, we'd like to continue our tradition of showcasing the past year's 'Homes Of The Month'. In… Read Full Entry

Housing As A Symbol Of Self

January 3rd, 2019 | House And HomeReal EstateJunction/High Park/Bloor West/SwanseaSwansea / High Park / Bloor West VillageCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleHigh Park North / The Junction MidtownYorkville / Summerhill / RosedaleDufferin Grove / Bloorcourt VillageKing West / Niagara / Liberty VillageThe DanforthLeslieville/RiversideRiverdale / Playter EstatesCabbagetown / CorktownSt. Lawrence MarketAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyLittle PortugalQueen WestWallace/Emerson & Brockton VillageRoncesvalles Village

Have you ever walked down a Toronto avenue, admiring the wide variety of homes and pondering who might dwell within? "I wonder who lives there...". I do! Every day. In the original City of Toronto, there is so much cultural, economic and social diversity stamped on our existing housing stock, most… Read Full Entry

Edwardian Residential Architecture In Toronto

October 19th, 2018 | City LivingReal EstateJunction/High Park/Bloor West/SwanseaSwansea / High Park / Bloor West VillageCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleHigh Park North / The Junction MidtownYorkville / Summerhill / RosedaleDufferin Grove / Bloorcourt VillageKing West / Niagara / Liberty VillageThe DanforthLeslieville/RiversideRiverdale / Playter EstatesCabbagetown / CorktownAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyLittle PortugalQueen WestWallace/Emerson & Brockton VillageRoncesvalles Village

One of the many benefits of living in Toronto is the beauty of our vintage housing stock. While older residences will require additional maintenance and repair simply because of their longevity, the high style patina and architectural touches that lend the unique character to these homes are truly immeasurable. No… Read Full Entry

Ryerson Reports On The Visionary Redesigns Of Five Toronto Streets

August 21st, 2018 | City LivingCorso Italia / DavenportWychwood / Humewood - CedarvaleSt. Lawrence MarketAnnex / South Annex / Seaton VillageCollege Street/Little ItalyRoncesvalles Village

In a time of growing concern about the safety and efficiency of Toronto's streets, media outlets have become mills of Vision Zero headlines, raging OpEd pieces, disturbing traffic camera footage, and plenty of finger-pointing. And the shaming isn't just local - it's global. Toronto has been singled out as the… Read Full Entry

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