In recent years, Airbnb  – and other short term rental platforms – have been a great way for homeowners to generate income and help offset the high costs of Toronto real estate.  In fact, I’ve written about Airbnb a couple of times before, as it’s become an integral part of the shelter…

  Unless you’ve found your ‘forever home’ – and sometimes even then – there will inevitably come a day when your property no longer meets your needs. While this is usually the time homeowners contact their realtor and begin scouting new options, with a lack of available stock, increasing housing prices,…

  Given so much of downtown Toronto’s housing stock was constructed anywhere from 90 to 140 years ago and requires renovation, many new homeowners find themselves in conflict over how to design their new shared living space. Furthermore, with the proliferation of HGTV and the 24 hour loop of design media, more…

  There plenty of urbanites who have owned their dwelling in the original City of Toronto for 2 decades or longer and who are consciously mapping their future – including when to sell and where/how they’ll downsize. Unless they’ve completed a substantial renovation in the past ten to fifteen years, most of those those homeowners…

  Light pollution is a very real issue in the City of Toronto. Last year we sold a listing which backed onto a Petro Canada gas station located on The Danforth, where the blue LED lights cast a bright harsh light across the backyard every night of the year. It was…

  We often field questions and concerns from millennial urbanites who are wondering how (and if) they’ll ever be able to become homeowners in Toronto. Having grown up watching their parents – the Boomers – do so well in the property market, millennials have always believe homeownership to be one…

  So here’s an observation from me, to you: This Autumn, realtors are listing properties for sums which are lower than they might have listed last year, or prior. In this climate, if the objective is to create competition and have buyers blindly compete one has to set the list price really…

  With summer in full bloom, and the harvest season not far off, Canadians are spending as much time as they can outdoors, celebrating our lush landscape! So what is it about camping amongst the trees or cottaginglakeside that feels so peaceful and tranquil? The answer is in our body’s…

  If I were to identify one common design direction for today’s modern shelter, I would say the most significant underlying theme is our attraction to open, light-filled living spaces. In particular, domesticity today favours the “open floor plan”, where the designated living-dining-kitchen zones are unfettered by structural separation. A…

  Dear Happy Homeowners: Did you purchase what you thought was your ‘forever home’, only to realize you want an upgrade? Or did you always plan to build equity in your current home with the intention of climbing the next rung on the property ladder? Whatever the case, if your…