Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I mean, maybe I’m not shocked when I sit down and think about the level of self-interest that exists in society in 2023, which, in real estate terms, can be defined as “NIMBY’ism.” TorontoRealtyBlog I was born in 1980. After that, my parents bought a home literally two blocks away on Parkhurst Boulevard.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I hope you enjoyed that “trip down memory lane,” as Marina so eloquently put it, with the Top Five Blog Posts of 2022 in Monday’s post. Believe it or not, this is the eighth year I’ve been working with this format; the top five blogs followed by the top five posts. 4) Prices Outside The City Of Toronto.

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Toronto Realty Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s just really, really hard to describe an entire year’s blog posts or an entire year’s real estate stories in a standard blog-post length. This is likely more subjective than the top five blog posts , but then again, we run into many of the same themes over and over. ” Nah. We all know how that goes.

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Toronto Realty Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Toronto Mayor, David Miller, had been pushing for a municipal land transfer tax, even though residents of the city already paid a provincial land transfer tax upon the purchase of real estate, and this was to be Mayor Miller’s baby! May 5th, 2022: Welcome To Toronto: A City Of NIMBY’s.

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Toronto Realty Blog

MAY 4, 2022

But let’s say that you spend $10 Million on a house in an extremely upscale area of the city. Should you have an expectation that the 90 x 200 foot lot next door to your 90 x 200 foot lot isn’t the site of, oh, I dunno, say, the next safe injection site in Toronto? My point is this: when do you become a NIMBY?

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Toronto Realty Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Wow, y’all went all out on last Friday’s blog! I read the comments section on many articles in the major Toronto newspapers and they’re just awful most of the time. I read the comments section on many articles in the major Toronto newspapers and they’re just awful most of the time.

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Toronto Realty Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There are only so many empty parking lots left in the city on which a 70-storey tower can be built. But when the developer had his first call with the city councilor in this neighbourhood, he or she told the developer, “… over my dead body.” And this city didn’t get the housing that it so desperately needs.

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