Lamb Development Corp has submitted an application to the City of Toronto for the rezoning of a 943m² site located at the southwest corner of Parliament Street and Richmond Street East. The property is comprised of three separate parcels addressed to 130 and 134 Parliament Street, and 529 Richmond Street East in the King-Parliament area of Downtown Toronto. The proposal for the…

High prices, intense buyer competition and worries about potential market crashes makes buying a house or condo today a far more complex prospect. Watch the promo for The Homebuyer’s Bootcamp above and learn more and sign up here While generations before have bought homes by relying on the advice of family, friends and the local agent, buying real estate in…

Particularly cold winter weather recently got in the way of construction progress of Mizrahi Developments’ The One in Downtown Toronto, but this past Saturday temperatures increased enough for crews to facilitate the concrete pour of the walls and columns of the building’s 7th floor.  Early on Saturday morning, cement trucks began to gather along both Bloor and Balmuto Streets, closed for the occasion,…

US inflation surged higher last week and took our fixed mortgage rates along for the ride. In today’s post, I explain why US inflation fear may soon peak out. Last week we learned that US inflation hit 7.5% in January, exceeding the consensus forecast of 7.3% and marking a 40-year high. The market’s reaction was as expected. US bond yields…

  Yup, we’re romantics! Aren’t you? For the Urbaneer team, Valentine’s is our opportunity to acknowledge that whether Cupid is poised to strike or not, we love puppies with big eyes, chocolate mousse that tastes like air kissed with sugar, bubbles in our champagne, and clawfoot tubs!     So in honour of this tenth year of our beloved Valentine’s…

With a booming population and growing immigration, Toronto has become one of the world’s most vertical cities. It now seems almost humorous to recall that the development of The Pantages on downtown Yonge Street in 2003 was seen as somewhat ‘controversial’ because of its 45-storey, 139.9 metre height. Today, 70, 80 and 90-storey proposals are commonplace as Toronto is entering…

We have a lot of fun here on Toronto Realty Blog, don’t we? We talk, we share, we opine, and we debate.  We laugh and we lament.  And at times, we commiserate. There are the fun posts and there are the serious ones. There are posts that explore good and posts that explore bad. There is simply no subject we…

The particularly cold winter this year means that there have been a lot of opportunities to lace up the skates, and one type of skate venue that’s become increasingly popular of late is the skate trail. In Toronto, the most uniquely located of these is under the Gardiner Expressway west of Strachan Avenue at The Bentway. Here, despite having a…