Minto Westside is your opportunity to live next to the proposed Rail Deck Park Image

Minto Westside is your opportunity to live next to the proposed Rail Deck Park

Just over a month ago, Toronto Mayor John Tory announced plans for the Rail Deck Park, a new 21-acre park stretching from Bathurst to Rogers Centre, built along the rail corridor above the tracks. Twitter exploded with news of the park, and people

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How to grow your Canada 150 tulips

There is a special reason to plant tulip bulbs this year: to celebrate. A new tulip has been developed by the Dutch to help Canadians celebrate our 150th anniversary next year: the Canada 150. And it is amazing.I visited a patch of several thousand of

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Castlemore Woods on the Humber: Selling!  Image

Castlemore Woods on the Humber: Selling!

As you may have noticed, Brampton continues to expand, with new developments popping up all across the landscape. One that you should really be looking out for is Castlemore Woods on the Humber, one of SkyHomes? latest low-rise communities.

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Get a sneak peek of Empire Avalon and star in your own movie! Image

Get a sneak peek of Empire Avalon and star in your own movie!

Very rarely do we come across a marketing campaign that we consider newsworthy, but Empire pushed the creative boundaries on this one, and we won’t be surprised if everyone’s soon talking about their new Caledonia community, Avalon.    To promote Avalon,

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Fair Housing Plan playing strong role in consumer activity

The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) released its monthly resale housing report for June 2017, along with a forecast update for 2017, and the results of two new Ipsos surveys. The one takeaway we have is that the Fair Housing Plan has made a strong

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Hotel and Condo Project Headed to Mississauga? Image

Hotel and Condo Project Headed to Mississauga?

As we have mentioned before at the Toronto Star’s NewInHomes.com, one of the most interesting trends in the downtown core is the incorporation of hotels in condominiums. Some of the most successful new condo projects in the city right now are the ones

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Condo construction hits record high in the Greater Toronto Area

Urbanation, a leader in GTA condo market information, released its condo market results, reporting that pre-sale condo launch activity hit a 10-year low in the first quarter of 2019. Only eight new projects launched in the first three months of the year.

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Minto Westside: Live Here. Be Everywhere.

So, who else is super excited about Minto’s new condo Minto Westside?Designed by Wallman Architects, this modern-contemporary masterpiece will rise at the corner of Front and Bathurst in Toronto. The development will feature one acre of courtyards and an

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Mayor John Tory unveils next steps for Rail Deck Park Image

Mayor John Tory unveils next steps for Rail Deck Park

Mayor John Tory and the City of Toronto outlined the next steps for Rail Deck Park in a recent release, announcing that they are “advancing the work required for a new planning framework.” That means the City is developing an implementation strategy to

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Walkability: Downtown Oakville - 90 Image

Walkability: Downtown Oakville - 90

So far in Walkability Month, we’ve visited King West, a booming neighbourhood full of new condos, and The Junction Triangle, an up-and-coming neighbourhood with a number of condos in the preconstruction phase. This week, we figured we would change things

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