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Midtown West Residences Ltd has submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application to the City of Toronto for 699 Lawrence Avenue West, a property in the Yorkdale-Glen Park neighbourhood. Located on the south side of the street, the property is approximately 260 metres west of the intersection of Lawrence Avenue West and Allen Road, and Lawrence West subway station, and directly across the…
I expect the BoC to hike its policy rate this Wednesday, and in today’s post I offer my take on whether variable-rate borrowers should respond by locking in. The Bank of Canada (BoC) is expected to hike its policy rate by 0.25% when it meets this Wednesday, and if that happens, Canadian variable mortgage rates and lines of credit will…
Welcome to my blog on design, culture and housing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For many, it’s hard to envision Toronto – a city that has experienced near consistent market appreciation for a quarter of a century with nary a dip outside of the occasional value flatline – experienced a calamitous housing crash. But it did. In 1989 when, over the…
Mass timber has become a smart choice of building material over the past few years, with its ability to be assembled in a shorter time, and its sustainability advantages over other building materials. RJC Engineers has played a role in a lot of great projects and firsts for Toronto, many with the use of mass timber. UrbanToronto sat down with Andrew Bayne, Principal…
Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where I answer questions and concerns from inquisitive readers and clients. This month, I offer advice to a Buyer wanting to understand how CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) taxation is factored based on how the income and expenses are reconciled, remitted, or deferred until the time of its sale. Dear Urbaneer:…
Just around the corner from chic clothing boutiques, funky bars, and unique restaurants, Groove Condos is a new project by Block Developments tucked in along quiet Vaughan Road; close to bustling St Clair Avenue West and Bathurst Street. The development, with architecture by RAW Design, will be a modern 15-storey building with 152 residential suites. The exterior of the building presents a maze-like facade,…
Price of new-construction homes dropped $60,000 in January, new BILD report says; Paris is building a gondola line as part of public transit. Should Toronto?; Why this real estate investor is selling his brick-and mortar properties to build in the metaverse; and more news. GTA home prices have surged 453 per cent over the last 25 years. A new report shows…
Uh oh, overflow, population, common groupBut it’ll do, save yourself, serve yourselfWorld serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleedTell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, rightYou vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright lightFeeling pretty psyched It’s the end of the world as we know itIt’s the end of the world as we know itIt’s the…
We love a good sunrise or sunset picture, and more often than not, that means we run an image with a dramatic skyline silhouetted against a horizon ablaze with colour, and if the lake makes an appearance in the pic, so much the better. The majority of the sunsets we see in Toronto, though, are of a more typically urban…
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