Plans for a 7-storey mixed-use building at 3005 Bloor Street West in the Kingsway area of Etobicoke have advanced. The development is located on the southwest of Bloor and Humbervale Boulevard, on the block east of Royal York Road. In November, 2017, Bousfields Inc. filed a rezoning application on behalf of One Properties to the City of Toronto to permit of the…

Will continuing inflation worries in the wake of Covid-19 lead to tightening monetary policy – and the resulting impacts on mortgage rates? Last week we learned that US inflationary pressures continued to rise in August. The US headline consumer price index (CPI) fell from 5.4% to 5.3%, but the personal consumption expenditures (CPE) index, which is the US Federal Reserve’s…

Approximately 50 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions are produced every year, equal to 10,000 fully loaded aircraft carriers. Roughly 40% of these emissions are a direct result of the building and construction industry.  Factoring this information with the point that every week, the number of buildings constructed equals the city of Paris, it’s clear that there’s a heightened carbon embodiment…

Being a landlord is really, really difficult in Ontario in 2021. I’ll admit, I’m not a fan of the changes that the Liberal government made in 2017 which basically took away any modicum of power or leverage that landlords had at the time, which was already about as close to zero as you could get. Having said that, the rules…

So many of the walls of new condos in this city seem to be thoughtlessly arranged when it comes to their aesthetics… and then there are those buildings where the look of the building has be rigorously thought out. The Harlowe is one of those, as UT Forum contributor greg_cooke’s angled view of the building shows. An angle on The…