A future landmark office tower is now beginning its rise beside the intersection of Front and Simcoe streets, soon to extend Toronto’s Financial District westwards with significant new space for its anchor tenant, banking giant TD. Cadillac Fairview’s 160 Front Street West is to stand out from its surroundings with a 46-storey tower featuring a design by AS+GG Architecture of Chicago working with Toronto-based B+H Architects that features a…

The Mississauga City Centre skyline is soon to be redefined by the first three towers of the M City community, now under construction at Burnhamthorpe Road and Confederation Parkway. Following on the success of these skyline-defining towers to be—M1, M2 and M3—the project team of developers Rogers Real Estate Development Ltd. and Urban Capital Property Group has now released more details about M4 at M City, the…

And how was your long weekend? How did you possibly get through Friday without new content on TRB? A reader emailed admin@torontorealtyblog.com and said, “Whaa no blog today?” True, I never post blogs on holidays.  And this time around, who would be reading? I make the assumption that most TRB readers are online between 7am – 10am, drinking coffee, procrastinating at work,…

A new naturalized mouth for the Don River is emerging as part of Waterfront Toronto’s wider redevelopment of Toronto’s Port Lands. Captured in today’s Daily Photo by Forum contributor Jasonzed is an aerial view of the large excavation site, where the new curving river course is clearly visible. Toronto skyline and new Don RIver Mouth excavation, image by Forum contributor Jasonzed Want to…

In Toronto: Condo market competitive again and home sellers thinking about cashing in on a hot market wonder where they could afford to buy.Elsewhere: Bank of Canada worried about Canada debt due to housing prices, pandemic lumber prices add to housing costs, and the allure of 1930s Swedish housing projects.  Toronto Toronto’s condo market heats up (National Post) Buyers coming…

A view from Toronto’s West Don Lands area is featured in today’s Daily Photo by Forum contributor Jasonzed. Captured from above the Don River, this aerial shot faces west over the Corktown Common park and along Front Street East’s path into the heart of Downtown.  West Don Lands, Front Street, and the Toronto skyline, image by Forum contributor Jasonzed Want to…

With the new Crosstown LRT under construction along Eglinton Avenue, projects are being proposed all along the 19 km transit corridor. One in the Fairbank area of Toronto is a mid-rise at 2116 Eglinton Avenue West from developers Old Stonehenge Development Corporation. Pending the success of a Site Plan Approval application, this 9-storey building with 104 residential units would be built halfway between…

The global COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching effects in Toronto, including major impacts on what have been booming real estate and building industries. Many jobs and most events are currently suspended, postponed, or affected in other ways, though UrbanToronto is still operating at full strength with our team working remotely. As a means to keep the public in the loop…

It’s been about a year and a half since construction began on a mixed-use complex on the former site of Newtonbrook Plaza, just north of Toronto’s North York City Centre area. Aoyuan International’s M2M Condos development has been active since Fall, 2019 and during the almost 18 months of construction, great strides have been made for the first phase in the five-tower Wallman Architects-designed complex. Today, we’ll…