Welcome to the latest installment of “Dear Urbaneer”, where we field questions from clients experiencing a real estate conundrum. This time, a prospective buyer is considering home ownership, and wonders how long on average, it will take before she begins to realize some growth on her investment. Dear Urbaneer: I’ve…

Welcome to our latest installment of ‘Dear Urbaneer’, where we field thoughtful questions from our readers. In this piece, we respond to an astute reader who has observed the differences between a “house” and “Home”. Dear Urbaneer: Why is it that in some homes, as soon as you cross the…

Welcome to 'Dear Urbaneer', where each month we field a thoughtful question from our clients and readers. This time around, an Urbaneer client is thinking about taking on a fixer-upper with the intent of flipping it for resale in quick succession, but is nervous about what the process actually entails…

Welcome to our regular 'Dear Urbaneer' post, where we tackle questions asked by our clients with our insights, experience and sage advice. This time around, we are examining how the appraisal from a lending institution or an insurance company may not fully reflect a property's true market value. Dear Urbaneer: It…

At the start of my real estate career over two decades ago, I found Buyers quite clearly had a preference to purchasing either a freehold dwelling or a condominium. Back then the price gap between the two housing types weren’t as dramatic as they are today, in part because there…

Not a week goes by without the media fretting about the potential crash of the condominium market. And with reason. Condominium living has become the dominant housing form in our urban centre and, amidst the sea of construction cranes which blanket the city, there’s a further 60,000 suites to be…

  Given Urbaneer.com’s history of launching multiple new and loft conversion condominium projects within the City of Toronto over the past twenty years, we’re frequently asked how a project goes from concept to completion. Interestingly, whether you are converting a small building into a few residences or intensifying the urban…