CreateTO is working with its municipal partners on the City’s Housing Now initiative to develop the program’s seventeenth city-wide site. CreateTO, the agency that manages the City of Toronto’s real estate portfolio, has filed Official Plan and Zoning By-Law Amendment applications to permit a mixed-income residential development prominently located southwest of the Scarborough Civic Centre (SCC). If approved, the site will…

Madison Group and Westdale Properties are gradually revealing more details of their new development at Yonge and Castlefield in Midtown Toronto. The Capitol Residences has been teased for months now, via regular releases of another new rendering of the 14-storey, Turner Fleischer Architects and Hariri Pontarini Architects-designed building. The Capitol, image courtesy of Madison/Westdale This rollout began by highlighting the development along with its heritage component, to feature restored exterior…

I get a lot of emails and questions from home buyers and sellers in the GTA who are trying to make sense of this overheated housing market, but of all the questions I receive, one in particular really stuck with me. Below is the question I received from Christina:  “Hi John! I love reading about all your real estate takes….

Named for the cultural offerings and clubs that dominated the area in previous decades, Toronto’s Entertainment District is now synonymous with condos and hotels. Quickly becoming one of the city’s most densely populated areas over the last several years, two more towers are now gearing up to join the conglomeration as construction moves along on Plaza’s Theatre District Residence and RIU Plaza…

Midtown Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton area is one of the fastest-changing areas of the city, home to a wealth of high-rise intensification and a major transit expansion due to open next year. This growth comes at the cost of lower-density buildings. For Throwback Thursday this week, we travel back to October, 2016, looking southwest across Yonge Street. This half-block-long plaza, with…

Toronto will have to go another summer without the Canadian National Exhibition, and the Toronto FC have temporarily vacated BMO Field. There’s not much going on at Exhibition Place this year, its landmarks missing their typical warm-weather crowds. Today’s Daily Photo shows a quiet scene facing east along Princes’ Boulevard, the shot by Forum contributor globalexpress focused on the Queen Elizabeth Building…