Toronto Condo Bubble

Has there been a larger topic of conversation within Toronto’s condo market? The “Toronto Condo Bubble”. I started in real estate in 2007, a “Toronto Condo Bubble” has been the presumed outcome at every step of the way. Without fail, whether the media was writing about it, buyers were talking about it, owners thinking they should […]

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Selling Your Home After A Divorce

Selling your home after a divorce can have its inherent challenges. Obviously, this is not the case with all divorces but at the very least there may have been memories and future plans with an emotional investment in and around your home. Letting go of the home can be quite liberating as you set out […]

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Buy Red Brick Condos

When looking to buy a condo in Toronto as a solid investment the most important aspect of your decision is to buy red brick condos and wood beams. In other words, buy a hard loft conversion. Toronto has a number of them but as you can imagine they aren’t making them anymore.  The fact that you […]

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Too Many Condo Developments in Toronto???

Here is an interesting take on the condo developments in Toronto…According to Bloomberg. Bubble territory? 3 times as many developments as New York City… Worth reading… here is the article: Toronto Bubble Risk Tops New York in Condos: Mortgages A sliver of land wedged between Toronto’s elevated expressway and an off-ramp that pumps traffic into […]

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Chinese stoke Toronto’s condo boom

  They have cash aplenty; they are in it for the long term, and they have taken the GTA real estate market by storm.Chinese buyers have become by far the dominant force in the new condo market in the GTA. Estimates of their impact suggest overseas Chinese investors, the 100,000-strong local community and the 20,000 […]

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Condo Status Certificate Story

This is courtesy of my close colleague Richard Silver at Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage… Within the process of listing and selling a Condominium recently, I got a bit of a run-around from a management office that I thought I might share with you: Before listing we called to order a Status Certificate and was […]

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