Sometimes ya just gotta embrace your sense of humour! Here’s this week’s Globe and Mail Innovative Space ad, now running most weeks for over 18 years. If you, or someone you know, is looking for a realtor who does things a little differently and with great success, please know I’m here…

Oh My! Parking is never easy at the best of times, but it looks like the driver of the car above unwittingly choose the spot which would become a Sinkhole! Yikes! Today’s post is a response to one of my clients who emailed me with the following question: “A neighbour has offered…

What better way to get grounded and grateful than spending Thanksgiving weekend at my friends’ farm in the country amidst clear sunny skies of 27 degrees celsius? I’m giving thanks for my family, my friends, my clients, my colleagues, my city, my province and my country. Yea! Here’s a few snaps of the…

As a west coast transplant from 25 years ago, I still find myself yearning for water. Fortunately, Toronto has a pretty stellar boardwalk running along Lake Ontario in a charming neighbourhood called, what else, but ‘The Beach’. In the late 80s this neighbourhood was my home. In fact, I owned…

Sometimes I just can’t help myself. I’m surfing the net and all of a sudden there I am…on sites dripping in sexy real estate. I can easily spend hours looking at all sorts of places that dreams are made of. One of my favourite websites as of late is Houzz.com. This…

Ok, so it’s not often you’ll find me posting a blog at 3am in the morning but I’m just home after a five hour tour celebrating Nuit Blanche and I’m absolutely glowing over how dynamic the installations were and how engaged Torontonians embraced the event. Nuit Blanche (http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.com) continues until…

If you haven’t attended Nuit Blanche before (it first started in 2006), starting at 6:59pm tonight until sunrise Toronto will become transformed by artists. Four zones of our city’s streets and architectural edifices become the backdrop and setting for a plethora of exhilarating contemporary art experiences. One night only.  All night long.…

For years South Cabbagetown has suffered a bad reputation. Located east of Sherbourne and south Of Gerrard all the way down to the other revitalizing neighbourhood called ‘Corktown’, this pocket of Victorian and infill housing have long been wrapped by the social housing ‘projects’ of Moss Park and Regent Park to the east, and…

I walked out my front door this morning to find all these scattered leaves on my wet terrace. Here comes Autumn, one of my favourite seasons in Toronto!   Do you like seeing the changing colours of deciduous trees in Autumn? If yes, you’ll have an amazing front row seat from your…

In my last instalment of the ‘Tales of Upper Hillsborough’, I shared with you some of the properties my friend James and I considered purchasing in our effort to find an affordable property in downtown Charlottetown that could generate a reliable income when we weren’t occupying it ourselves. Click HERE for…