A 35-storey residential tower southwest of the corner of Eglinton Avenue East and Mt Pleasant Road in Midtown Toronto could replace a row of townhouses while overshadowing a school and playground directly behind. Rendering – view looking northwest, image by by Turner Fleischer Architects. In August, Menkes submitted Zoning By-law Amendment and Site Plan Approval applications to the City of Toronto for the…

Over the next couple of years, Yorkwoods Condos will be bringing some significant change to Toronto’s Jane and Sheppard neighbourhood. Designed by AAA Architects Inc. for CTN Developents, the condo will be located at 2839 Jane Street in Toronto’s borough of North York. Our last story introduced the development and its close proximity to community hot spots including green spaces, malls, restaurants, and transit. Now, we take…

An 8-storey mixed-use building and a 2-storey single detached residential dwelling have been proposed at 3005 Bloor Street West and 14 Humbervale Boulevard, respectively, in the Kingsway area of Etobicoke. The development is located on the south side of Bloor Street West on the block west of Royal York Road. In November, 2017, Bousfields Inc. filed a rezoning application on behalf…

I’m sure we’ve talked about this before on TRB at some point in the last fourteen years, but short of Googling “Toronto Realty Blog” and “exclusive listing,” I can’t recall when. Not only that, the reasons for using an exclusive listing, not to mention a “coming soon” sign, have changed dramatically over the last few years so it’s time for a…

Although you can find references to it on Wikipedia, Openwaterpedia, and Readtheplaque, you won’t know from using Google Maps or Apple Maps that when you’re at the end of Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit, you’re on Vicki Keith Point, named for the Canadian marathon swimmer who ended most of her crossings of Lake Ontario here. The view from the point has changed…

In Toronto: Houses are being built in Canada, just not here. Find out why, along with how September distractions – read: federal election – have distracted the market.  Elsewhere: What the Liberal minority means for Canadian housing going forward, California ends single-family zoning, and how the housing market is dividing countries worldwide.Toronto There has never been more housing under construction…

Ah, September! The sweet sweet time when students return to their studies! The scent of new backpacks and coloured pencils hangs in the air amongst the sound of honking buses and parental high-fives! It truly ‘takes a village’ to make this coveted ninth month of the year a success, and the Bloor West Village shops and businesses are a flurry of…

In August, 2021 Sierra Communities filed a Zoning By-law Amendment application with the City of Toronto for an Annex property that involves the construction of a 9-storey mixed-use condominium and the partial conservation of the street-facing elevations of the existing building at 110-112 Avenue Road. Looking northwest; the site has a frontage of 26m and a depth of 48m, image by…

Madison Group is preparing for the launch of Alias, its new condominium tower that will rise above Church and Richmond Streets in Downtown Toronto. The surrounding neighbourhood is full of development activity, and is seeing significant amounts of revitalization and bringing increased vitality to the streets. Alias will continue that trend as a 45-storey development designed by Teeple Architects, with Turner Fleischer Architects as…