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How To Navigate Transforming Your Property

December 19, 2018

Have you noticed how in Toronto whenever a house sells, the moment it closes a big dumpster is parked out front and the house is pretty much gutted from top to bottom? A full year later the house is ready for possession and, as the moving van drives off…

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Dear Urbaneer: How Should We Renovate Our Kitchen With Resale In Mind?

October 25, 2018

Consulting, Dear Urbaneer, Rejuvenating the Button Factory, Renovating the Movie House Loft, Tales From Tennis Crescent, Tales Of Upper Hillsborough

Welcome to this month’s edition of Dear Urbaneer, where I share my advice to clients seeking counsel on their housing issues, design dilemmas, and real estate endeavours. This month, I’m fielding questions from clients interested in replacing their dated eat-in condo kitchen without over-improving it, as well as whether it’s ok…

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Dear Urbaneer: What Are The Steps To Home Renovation?

October 21, 2018

Consulting, Dear Urbaneer, Tales From Tennis Crescent

Welcome to October’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where we dip into our mailbox to answer questions that are puzzling our clients. If you’ve been searching for a freehold property to purchase in the original City of Toronto, you’ve now discovered the age of the city’s housing stock ranges anywhere…

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Dear Urbaneer: Should I Renovate My House In Stages Or Do A Full Gut?

September 25, 2018

Consulting, Dear Urbaneer

Welcome to this month’s edition of Dear Urbaneer, where I share my advice to clients seeking counsel on their housing issues, design dilemmas and real estate endeavours. This month, I address a question from clients – who are considering undertaking some major changes to their residence – regarding whether their…

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How Do I Best Equip And Furnish My New Home?

April 18, 2018

Consulting, Design

Have you made a new home purchase? Is your move imminent? You are smart to be proactive in trying to manage your move and organize necessities, because as any homeowner will tell you – moving is stressful. In fact, at the end of this post I’ll provide you several…

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Dear Urbaneer: I Need Help With Architects, Builders And Toronto’s Committee Of Adjustment

June 19, 2017

Consulting, Dear Urbaneer, Tales From Tennis Crescent

Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer, where our readers put our real estate knowledge to task with their questions. This month, a reader asks for Steve’s guidance based on his journey re-inventing a 1960s super-solid utilitarian duplex – summarized in his Tales From Tennis Crescent posts – located on Tennis Crescent in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood.…

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The Pitfalls Of Permit Fees And Toronto Real Estate

November 2, 2016

Consulting, Real Estate

By now, in the hyper-charged property market in the city of Toronto, you’re undoubtedly more and more aware of the mechanics of supply and demand, squeezing available stock, and how that pushes housing prices higher…and then higher again! I dissected some of the fundamental drivers behind this rapid price appreciation…

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Dear Urbaneer: What Are The Steps To Add Onto A House In Toronto?

September 23, 2016

Consulting, Riverdale / Playter Estates, Roncesvalles Village

Welcome to this month’s installment of Dear Urbaneer where we ponder housing questions put to us by our client base. This month, we explore a movement in housing that is happening more and more frequently in the city of Toronto, as a culmination of several market conditions – including escalating…

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It’s All Visual: The Importance Of Floor Plans

March 9, 2016

Consulting

In a competitive market, Sellers are well-served when their listing broker provides more, not less, information for Buyers to review in advance of actually crossing the threshold of a property. Seriously, what’s with those Realtors who post blurry, oddly-angled photographs showing open crammed closets, messy kitchens littered with dishes…

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Understanding The Six Essential Layers Of Property

March 9, 2016

Consulting, Healthy Home, Real Estate

At urbaneer, whether you’re a Buyer or Seller we believe knowledge is your ally. This is why it’s essential you understand the six interconnected layers of a property and how each of these influence value. These six layers—Site, Structure, Skin, Services, Space Plan, and Stuff (the furnishings), as illustrated in…

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