Toronto City Council approves Housing Now plan to build 10,000 homes
Toronto City Council just approved the Housing Now plan, which aims to facilitate the development of new affordable housing within mixed-income communities at 11 sites in the city.
Oh, the Green, Green Grass of Home
Image via Curbed.comBy Penny Munoz‘Anyplace is Paradise’, but if you’re looking for a brand new home in Palm Springs, Elvis Presley’s Graceland West property isn’t it.Listed for $3.75 million, the property’s disastrous history has ‘Suspicious Minds’,
Maybe it’s time to cut the red tape to build more new homes
Using the Houston area for comparison, the Toronto Sun this week says that the government needs to be freeing up housing supply rather than trying to curb foreign demand. Both CMAs house about 6.5 million people, the paper says, but Houston planners
Cool home decor ideas for the hot summer months
I love Toronto’s warm summer months, though we haven’t had that many scorching days; I haven’t even put my air conditioning on yet! There’s still time though because August can get really hot! In California (where I also design), we’ve had some very hot,
Growing roses in your home garden: My secrets to success
This is my favourite time of year for only one reason – the roses!!! What would we do without them? What isn’t there to love about them? Their timeless beauty is proof of their popularity.
Detached homes over $1 million are still selling quickly across the GTA
After countless months of record high pricing in the new low-rise market across the Total Market Area (TMA), it seems like buyers are just accepting that a detached home is going to cost them over $1 million because sales haven’t really slowed down.
GTA new home sales back on track, but the price gap widens
According to the Building Industry and Land Development Association’s (BILD) latest new home sales report for February 2016, sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are back on track after a slow start to the year. Last February, there were 3,629 new
Is Home Where the Heart Is?
We’re taking a look this month on our blog at some of the reasons buyers go for what they go for — what seems simple on the surface (“I just like open concept living”) can actually have some deeper roots. But beyond even that, there is a great deal of
Andrea DeGasperis-Ronco of OPUS Homes wins the Young Entrepreneur Under 40 Award!
Last week, the Vaughan Chamber of Commerce celebrated and announced their Business Achievement Awards, and Andrea DeGasperis-Ronco, Principal of OPUS Homes, received the Young Entrepreneur Under 40 Award! The Young Entrepreneur Under 40 Award recognizes
Building this Home was a $1.8 Million Mistake
A Rhode Island Supreme Court is ordering that a $1.8 million house on the waterfront of parkland in Narragansett be removed because it was mistakenly built illegally.Robert Lamoureux, owner of Four Twenty Corp, says that the company was unaware that the
