The Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT) continues to examine ways to unlock Toronto’s transportation gridlock. Yesterday, the group released Getting on the Right Track: Connecting Communities with Regional Rail, which suggests that the most effective and economical way to meet the Toronto region’s growing transportation challenges is to build a regional rail network, using the current 450-kilometre network of legacy…

Throughout the last year of global turmoil brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, most people who were commuting to offices previously have since been working remotely as a means to limit the spread of the virus. As a result, most offices are currently staffed by small crews, while businesses face continued overhead costs for the currently under-utilized space. While working…

A recent application submitted to the City of Toronto is seeking a Zoning By-law Amendment to preserve and intensify a heritage property at 600 King West, at the northeast corner of King and Portland streets. Proposed by Wittington, the plan seeks to build an addition atop and behind an Edwardian Classical-style 4.5-storey former warehouse known as the Beatty Manufacturing Company building. Dating to 1900,…

The most significant office development seen in Downtown Toronto since the early 1990s, Hines and Ivanhoé Cambridge’s CIBC SQUARE is extending the Financial District to the blocks south and east of Union Station with a pair of office towers joined by a park over the rail corridor that runs between the first and second phases. Under construction since mid-2017 at the intersection of Bay and…

This month we explore low inventory levels and demand shock in Toronto’s housing market.  As Featured in the Move Smartly Report: Special Client Seminar Join John as he unpacks this month’s report and answers your questions. Exclusive for Realosophy past & present clients. Sign up here “Where Have all the Houses Gone?” asked a New York Times headline last month,…

A view over Toronto’s St. James Park and the Downtown skyline is featured in today’s Daily Photo. Captured by Forum contributor 0d1n, this southwest-facing shot includes a handful of new additions under construction on the skyline including (L-R) the Sugar Wharf complex, St. Lawrence Market North, The Prestige at Pinnacle One Yonge, 75 on The Esplanade, 65 King East, and Scotiabank…