By Dave Leblanc Ever since being given John Sebert’s The Nabes: Toronto’s Wonderful Neighbourhood Movie Houses (Mosaic Press, 2001) for Christmas a few years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for survivors or thoughtful adaptive reuses of these little gems. They hail from a time when you could walk to everything – places such as [...]
Archive for December, 2007
1930s Theatre Has New Role As Lofts
Posted: 9th December 2007 by Laurin Jeffrey in East Toronto Real Estate, New Condos & Lofts, Toronto Condos, Toronto Loft ConversionsTags: 952 kingston, 952 kingston road, academy lane, Academy Lane Lofts, architects, art deco, authentic toronto lofts, bowling alley, construction, conversion, Core Architects, development, environment, estate, excavation, factory, first, for sale, GST, home, infill, infill projects, kingston road, loft, loft conversion, lofts, luxury, market, modern beach lofts, modernism, movie house, movie houses, movie theatre, neighbourhood, neighbourhoods, new, new buildings, project, queen, queen city, Queen City Vinegar Co. Lofts, queen st, queen street, Queen Street East, real, real estate, real estate developer, rent, reuse, sale, scarboro, streetcar, streetcar developments, time, toronto, toronto hard lofts, Toronto Loft Conversions, toronto lofts, toronto lofts for sale, toronto real estate, Tory, west
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GST Reduction Information
Posted: 9th December 2007 by Laurin Jeffrey in East Toronto Real Estate, First Time Buyers, Legal Real Estate Issues, Luxury Real Estate, Miscellaneous, Mortgages and Financial Information, New Condos & Lofts, North York Condos, Other Real Estate Markets, Pickering Ajax Real Estate, Toronto Condos, Toronto Loft Conversions, Toronto Real Estate, Toronto Townhouses & Townhomes, West Toronto Real Estate, York Region Real EstateTags: agreement of purchase and sale, buy, buyer, canada, Canada Revenue Agency, canadian, canadian real estate, Canadian Real Estate Association, estate, federal governmen, federal government, government, GST, GST reduction, home, housing, new, new home, new homes, new housing, possession, purchaser, real, real estate, real estate association, reduce, resale home, resale homes, residential properties, sale, sales, title, transfer, transitional rules
A reduction in the GST from 6 per cent to 5 per cent was announced by the federal government on October 30, 2007. With regard to the purchase price of residential properties, GST only applies to sales of newly constructed and substantially renovated homes. GST is not applied to the purchase price of resale homes. [...]
Hot month for Toronto real estate
Posted: 7th December 2007 by Laurin Jeffrey in Toronto Real EstateTags: anecdotal evidence, buy, buyer, CREA, estate, first, government, home, increase, land, lease, Lien, new, purchaser, real, real estate, real estate board, real estate sales, rent, sale, sales, speculation, strong sales, tax, time, toronto, toronto budget, toronto home, toronto real estate, Toronto Real Estate Board, Toronto Real Estate Sales, transfer
By James Bradshaw – Globe and Mail Toronto real estate sales continued their record-breaking pace in November, according to figures released yesterday, but opinions differ as to whether the growth was bolstered by a rush to close sales before Toronto’s new land-transfer tax takes effect. The average sale price of a Toronto Real Estate Board, [...]
Builders A-list gets dibs on condos
Posted: 7th December 2007 by Laurin Jeffrey in New Condos & Lofts, Toronto CondosTags: agent, banks, bazis, Bazis International, bloor st, bloor street, boom, buy, buy a condo, buyer, buyers, canada, canada mortgage and housing, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp, canadian, canadian markets, condo, condo sales, condo unit, condominium, condominium building, condominium market, condos, condos in toronto, construction, credit, developers, estate, financing, first, home, housing, housing corp, housing market, investors, Lien, market, mortgage, new, new construction, one bloor, One Bloor Street, prices, project, real, real estate, real estate agent, real estate agents, rent, Ritz-Carlton, s real estate, sale, sales, seller, sellers, selling, square feet, subway line, THE RESIDENCES AT THE RITZ-CARLTON, The Ritz-Carlton, time, toronto, toronto condo, toronto condos, toronto new condos, toronto real estate, toronto real estate agent, tower, urbanation
If you have a big lineup outside, you let the people in first who keep coming back They lined up in the cold for days just to get a chance at buying into one of Toronto’s hottest condominium buildings, located in the centre of the city where its two major subway lines meet. But all [...]