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Okite countertops and other products under that name have been around for ten years now, launched by the Italian manufacturer Seieffe Industrie in 2003, but don’t worry if you haven’t heard of them, especially if you are the do-it-yourself type. With a bit of marketing-driven snobbery, the company says “Sorry, no big box retail stores.”… Continue Reading
One of the most prominent pieces of public art in the city is also one of the simplest, and in a way, most touching. It’s a big red canoe. You’ve probably seen it as you drove across the Gardiner Expressway, just west of the Rogers Centre. It is the work of Douglas Coupland, and it… Continue Reading
Everything is cool in Toronto’s condo market, says cool, calm Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist of CIBC World Markets, if you look at the situation in context. Tal has consistently taken the view that the prophets of doom in the media were mistaken when predicting a US-style real estate crash in Canada. Last fall, for… Continue Reading
There’s another new report about homebuyers, this one impressively titled the BMO Psychology of House Hunting Report. Pollara did the polling back in March and, as the title would suggest, the questions had to do with how Canadians feel about the whole process of buying a home. The one statistic that leaps out more than… Continue Reading
Once again, Canada’s real estate agents are under attack, this time from the somewhat unlikely command centre of Moncton, New Brunswick. That’s where the national headquarters of PropertyGuys.com is located, a non-agented real estate company which calls itself “Canada’s largest private sale franchise network and a modern alternative to traditional real estate agents.” The company… Continue Reading
A five-kilometre hydro corridor running from Davenport Village to the Annex could be transformed into parkland and public space for art, now that the winners of the Green Line Competition have been announced. Workshop Architecture, a Toronto firm, established a two-part international competition for ideas about how to get the best public use out of… Continue Reading
One of the greatest pleasures of literature is that it lets us be voyeurs. We get to observe, among other things, the misfortune of others, without suffering in any real way ourselves. Perhaps we learn a lesson, perhaps we don’t, but we watch with pleasure as others struggle, either hoping for their release if we… Continue Reading
There were fewer condominiums sold in Toronto in the first quarter of this year than in the same period last year. This lower volume of sales was “not unexpected,” says Shaun Hillebrand of Urbanation, the firm that tracks condo sales and developments in Toronto, given how strong the market was in 2011 and the first… Continue Reading
Thousands of Torontonians pass by the MaRS complex at the corner of College and University every day, but does the average passerby know what goes on in the intriguingly named MaRS Discovery District? Does the condo-dwelling, streetcar-riding worker sleepily rolling past the imposing old College Street facade, formerly the Toronto General Hospital, realize that inside… Continue Reading
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