Renovating

In real estate terms, zoning refers to what’s permitted to be built and the uses allowed for a property. Most of Toronto is zoned for low density housing, like single family homes. That’s about to change.

Zoned out?

2019-09-13T10:54:12-04:00September 13th, 2019|

If you’re keen on knowing what makes a renovation worth doing and what red flags mean you should run away from the project, then here’s the low down.

Don’t renovate that place.

2019-07-28T14:40:10-04:00July 26th, 2019|

I often get asked by my clients for advice on what to fix in a home before we put it on the market. It’s a great question and one that I’m well positioned to answer as every day I see homes for sale. Over the years I’ve developed a very

That’s inappropriate.

2018-02-27T12:21:16-05:00May 19th, 2017|

For a number of months now, I’ve been saying that the government is going to intervene into the housing market in the GTA. Less than a month ago I wrote an article, cheerfully called The End is Nigh  where I recapped what I had been saying and reiterated my belief

How is this Ontario Fair Housing Plan going to impact me?

2018-02-27T12:21:16-05:00April 21st, 2017|

There is a poem by Robert Frost called “The Road Not Taken” that has the distinction of being the most misread poem in America, according to the Paris Review. I know what you are thinking. Yet another real estate article comparing misinterpretations of classic poetry with property appreciation in the

The Road Not Taken

2018-02-27T12:20:49-05:00October 28th, 2016|

Here it is, the post you have been waiting for! At long last we will put to rest the eternal question of who is better – Peel or Toronto. Now there are those of you who say that there are absolutely better questions than this.  We should explore the question of

The 905 Versus the 416

2018-02-27T12:20:55-05:00February 20th, 2015|

Four millimeters is pretty damn small. Stack a couple of pennies together and they would be about that thick. A few weeks ago, something that small cost us $4,000. My family owns some investment properties.  One of them is a century triplex near downtown Brampton.  We have spent lots of

How 4mm Cost $4,000

2018-02-27T12:20:56-05:00February 6th, 2015|

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