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Re: Eug, agreed on the older units. I think there are some really decently-valued apartments in older buildings. I was in one on St. Clair a couple years back - two bedroom, probably 900 sqft or so, costing 1500$ including parking and utlities. If you can go without a dishwasher, granite...

I think this is the strongest driver of young people entering the housing market in urban areas. Rents are at levels that do not make renting more financially compelling. This is particularly true if you're looking for multi-bedroom apartments or houses. You can pay 2000$ a month to live in...

Eglinton to Castlefield, between Marlee and Dufferin. Also agreed on Oakwood/Vaughan.

I'm about a block and a half from Bathurst and St. Clair, although numbers inflated by proximity to green grocers or cafés I would probably never ever go to. Walk score: 97 Transit score: 89 I did a few walkscores for my old places in Burlington, ON (50); Timmins (a decent 74); Toronto...

I'll watch anything that profiles houses in Toronto - I like to learn about the neighbourhoods and see what people are paying for things. I strangely miss the days when Property Virgins was actually shot in Toronto. Property Brothers I watch here and there, although recently they've been...

I attended both (plus Queen's) and I agree. Want student 'culture'? Go attend Queen's or Western. The 'culture' gets boring after about 6 months, and after a year or two it gets downright grating. the only saving grace for Queen's is that Kingston is a pretty fine little town. I'm not...

Mathematically it is correct - we can't really expect them to make a trend-line taking into account something that hasn't happened yet. The graph just needs a big huge honking caveat at the bottom for the purposes of more accurate interpretation which you ahve pointed out.

One night in the fall I had three of them in my backyard tree, hissing and screaming at each other. The tree was swaying everywhere with their weight. They took down a few branches and really killed my sleep for a few days. So loud.

Actually, deposit-return systems guarantee that the stores do not bear the cost - the consumer does, all of it - with no guarantee that anything will actually be returned or recycled. So to fund the system a 25 cent deposit plus costs on top end up being more like a 35 or 40 cent increase in...

Plaster-only tradesmen are difficult to get a hold of, particularly for small projects. It's a dying art and in big demand in Toronto for home repairs. I've heard good things about Buckner Plastering from a guy I used to know in the heritage building maintenance field. I had Kris's Painting...

Hasn't the city been lowering business property taxes annually over the past four or five years, as part of the rebalancing of the tax burden?

Good choice I agree with Urban Dreamer's the 'smart money' comment on Dufferin/Eglinton. I've never thought of it before, but I think his hipster prediction isn't too far off. I'm a big fan of this area of Toronto. Two generations of my family lived there and when I went to buy a place we...

We had the same experience three years ago. We eventually settled on a St Clair Ave W 800 sq ft 2 bedroom unit for 1400$ all inclusive (incl parking) but it was in an older building that would likely be considered 'dingy' comapred to the new condo-esque standards that people seem to have for...

Reined-in by the escarpment and the 407, I think Burlington is approaching build-out, no? It would explain the increase in condos/multi-unit res in Burlington over the last ten years.

That may be difficult, unless you're going to take a bus or two to get to the subway. If you have any questions you can send me a message. It is unlikely that the following places will have anything in your price range and preferred townhouse style, but you could try: - Eglinton West...

Depends on the street and where you are in general. In my area east of Oakwood and south of St Clair there seems to be very little front-pad parking. North and west it becomes more common, particularly west of Dufferin. If you don't have lane or mutual drive parking you might have a shot...

Yes the vehicle tax. I thought it was implied that we were talking about property tax, which no one pledge to cut. I'm not sure if you misunderstood but in the hiring process the government is just another competitor in a labour market. The point is market actors send price signals that...

They did? When? I don't think anyone promised tax reductions, even Ford, no? SimonP brought that stat up as an example of how the gap is growing. It has nothing to do with politicians boasting one thing or another. It's just an illustration of how there is an increasing polarization of...