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Back in January I made my Spring Forecast predictions on where the market could be heading…and so far I seem to be reading my Crystal Ball extremely well! Record Bidding Wars? Check! Here’s a blog posting sharing a tale from the trenches. Investor-fueled purchases? Check! Here’s a recent article in the…

You may have heard stories of people renovating properties and discovering vintage newspapers or childhood mementos hidden in little alcoves, wall cavities or secret niches. In fact, it’s quite common when you’re renovating one hundred year old properties. Here’s a CUTE BLOG posting by Toronto’s Beauparlant Design where they recently found…

There are a whole lotta reasons why housing is so costly today. And one is the rising government development fees, levies and taxes associated with new development. According to the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario and the Residential Construction Council of Ontario, much of this push in prices can…

Wow, it’s mid-March and I’m yearning for Spring to bloom. The snow is pretty much gone, and we’ve had a couple of days where clear skies and sunbeams have been warming our hearts, but we still haven’t had that first day of the year where you can smell the new…

I’m not sure if our style and aesthetic at urbaneer.com has any sway over you, or if our adoration for intriguing architecture and Triple AAA locations has any bearing on whether you do real estate business with us, but we are extremely proud of the brand we’ve been cultivating for almost twenty years + our association…

Face it, nothing screams architectural purity like an unadorned white pavilion set in nature. This Garrison, New York property designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza, is most everything I covet. Simple, elegant and compositionally refined as the perfect balance to the contrasting organic landscape. It’s huge – 54 feet wide, 122 feet…

You know when you eat a big spoonful of ice cream in summer and, despite the scorching heat of the season, you get a bad case of head freeze which leaves you in momentary agony? Well, right now I feel like I’m living the opposite of that. It’s arctic cold outside yet my head is burning Hot. Worse…

During wickedly cold weather snaps Torontonians pretty much remain entrenched indoors venturing out as little as possible. Sure we’ll dash to the grocer, the bank or run errands but the desire to take a leisurely stroll around, say, Kensington Market, diminishes somewhat when you’re walking with a wind chill of…