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Glass Pizzazz

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For those who love light, the increasing availability of condominium residences with crisp clean lines and expansive floor to ceiling windows are a much-welcome relief from the traditional brick facades with small windows endemic to Toronto condominiums dating fifteen to twenty-five years ago. Even a decade ago when condominiums were becoming more cutting-edge…
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True Colours

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Are gay neighbours good for property values? Even though you may personally despise those perfectly trimmed topiaries that flank each side of the freshly painted red front door on Fred and Barney’s just-restored picture-perfect Cape Code dwell, replete with vintage coach lamp and brass door knocker, research shows that the…
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Happy Birthday Canada!

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So Canada is 143 years old today! Pretty swell eh? I consider myself truly blessed to be Canadian. How fortunate to live in one of the most progressive liberated countries in the world, with unlimited opportunities and oodles of space. I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else quite frankly, for even…
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Understanding Our Market Momentum

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  Do you wonder why our real estate economy has continued to grow even when you suspect it should not? As a realtor engaged in the trade of property over the past twenty years throughout the City of Toronto, I’ve witnessed the property economy boom, bubble, collapse and recover into…
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Quintessential Stylegarage

Queen West
I’ve always been a fan of Stylegarage, the purveyor of crisp clean-lined furnishings. Over the years I’ve come to depend on them for stainless steel mirrors and smart ambient lighting. They even did a custom stair railing for me…all items I’ll post in future blogs. But those items have to…
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The Heat Is On

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Mix one part obsessed World Cup Soccer fans driving around town honking and waving flags from their cars, with one part traffic gridlock exacerbated by wrapping our financial core in concrete and barbed wire for the G20 summit, and then bake it under this week’s hot humid weather system! Voila,…
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Canstruction Food Raiser

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Canstruction® is the one of the most clever food charity programs globally! The 12th annual Toronto event is hosted at the Toronto Dominion Centre, and has raised almost 500,000 lbs of food for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Entries are being taken now for this year’s event. Check it out at the Canstruction®…
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The ‘Can’t Touch This’ Market

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Lately it’s been a challenge bringing buyers and sellers together to create a meeting of the minds when negotiating a real estate transaction. As the bidding wars diminish buyers are wanting to negotiate with sellers yet, after years of increasing property values, sellers are reluctant to let go of their properties for anything less…
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Reaching The Finish Line

College Street / Little Italy
Back in February, I began a conquest to get my residence organized. After years of haphazard searching for a particular sweater, book or tool (“I know it’s in this closet somewhere!”), I finally decided it was time to organize my life through and through. Not surprisingly it’s been a long…
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