What to do with pets when selling your home
Are you thinking of selling your home, but are concerned that your pet’s presence may turn away potential buyers? There are nearly 80,000 licenced dogs and cats in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), so some may assume that prospective purchasers wouldn’t
Guelph is the top city to buy a home: MoneySense
MoneySense just released its 2017 Where to Buy Now ranking, listing Canada’s most attractive real estate markets for investors and end-users. Topping the list is Guelph, Ontario! Thunder Bay held first place for two consecutive years, but Guelph has
Homes by Desantis Help Deserving Family
Hamilton's most anticipated new home is now well in the works, thanks to Habit for Humanity Hamilton, Homes by DeSantis and the City of Hamilton, 300 volunteers from the Hamilton area and a bunch of A's and B's on two report cards.
Building this Home was a $1.8 Million Mistake
A Rhode Island Supreme Court is ordering that a $1.8 million house on the waterfront of parkland in Narragansett be removed because it was mistakenly built illegally.Robert Lamoureux, owner of Four Twenty Corp, says that the company was unaware that the
How you can help make Toronto a greener city at home
The City of Toronto partnered with three community groups on the Toronto’s Greenest Neighbourhoods project with the goal of encouraging more people to take advantage of rebates and incentives for home energy retrofits.
Get your tickets to the National Home Show and Canada Blooms 2017!
I look forward to Canada Blooms every year. It is an overwhelming display of colour and scent to brighten your winter and get you ready for spring.The theme of this year’s festival is ‘Oh Canada’, a celebration of Canada's 150th Anniversary including a
Is entrepreneurship the answer to Toronto’s rising home prices?
The federal government said this week it would conduct an analysis of the Canadian real estate market on the road to deciding whether legislative changes are needed to correct escalating prices or mitigate the effect of foreign investment on
The Year of Public Art in Toronto and the role of the new home industry
At the beginning of this week, Mayor John Tory declared 2021 as the Year of Public Art in Toronto. So, what exactly does that mean and can the new home industry play a role?
When will all new homes be powered by solar shingles?
Solar shingles via electrek.coOntarians have been up in arms about the price of power for some time now, as we’ve weathered repeated rate hikes. Statistics Canada says the price of electricity has outstripped overall inflation by about eight times. The
There’s a long list of new home releases and openings, but is it enough?
It seems like we’re retelling the story of low new home inventory woes and rising prices on a weekly basis. The latest report from Trimart Research Corporation says that while demand was stronger than usual through the winter, sales were lower than
