Buyer Beware, Part 2: Condos saved from ruin – Montreal Gazette

Buyer Beware, Part 2: Condos saved from ruin
Montreal Gazette
... of the price in the early 2000s, and a lack of regulatory oversight, illustrate many of the key problems now threatening the Canadian condo industry – the fastest-growing sector of residential real estate in large cities like Montreal and Toronto.

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The condo board, the lawsuit and the $40000 parrot – Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail
The condo board, the lawsuit and the $40000 parrot
Globe and Mail
He then had a personal trainer, a real-estate agent and an electrician sign affidavits affirming the feather-free status of his unit. Mr. Bazilinsky says the condo board inspected his unit last January and found nothing, but then accused the ...

Massey Tower will ‘breathe new life’ into neglected site – Toronto Star

Toronto Star
Massey Tower will 'breathe new life' into neglected site
Toronto Star
In late January, MOD announced it had bought the site, which includes the adjacent property, once the location of the Colonial Tavern and is now a small park. It sits between the Bank of Commerce building and its sister structure to the north, ...

Toronto real estate: Traditional realtors face challenge by online players – Toronto Star

Toronto Star
Toronto real estate: Traditional realtors face challenge by online players
Toronto Star
But the real push came last fall after the Toronto Real Estate Board, under intense pressure from Ottawa's Competition Commissioner, agreed to make more MLS listing information, routinely handed out by “bricks and mortar” realtors, available online.

Poll: Landlords resisting pressure to drop rents – Canadian Real Estate Magazine

Poll: Landlords resisting pressure to drop rents
Canadian Real Estate Magazine
A whopping 70.3% of real estate investors say they have not dropped their rents by so much as a dime in order to win or retain tenants increasingly spoiled for choice in markets such as Vancouver and Toronto. Still, there are signs that other landlords ...

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War Horse is Alex Furber’s first major role – Toronto.com

Toronto.com
War Horse is Alex Furber's first major role
Toronto.com
Born in the Beach in 1987 to a clarinet-playing mom and a real estate-dealing dad, he and his two younger sisters grew up in a pleasant environment without a hint of stardom on the horizon. “My parents sent me to this theatre camp in the Beaches called ...

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