Category: Real Estate

Toronto Might Get a ‘Vertical Forest’ Building With More Than 450 Trees

Walking through Toronto, it’s hard not to rue a landscape increasingly dominated by glass and steel. But what if there was a way to incorporate the Great Outdoors into the city’s building boom? That’s what architect Brian Brisbin of the Toronto firm Brisbin Brook Beynon is looking to achieve with the

Toronto is the Best City in North America to Be a Construction Crane

Toronto may not be the best city in North America (that distinction goes to Calgary), but it does have the most cranes. According to the most recent Crane Index published by quantity surveying company RLB, Toronto has “Toronto has the highest number of cranes of all the cities surveyed” – including New York

A Quarter of Canadian Retirees Still Have Adult Kids Living With Them

Ah, the retired life – a flourishing green front lawn, Sunday vibes every day of the week, quarterly trips to the tropics, and, uhhh, what the hell? Kids still kickin’ around the house, apparently. According to data from a new survey by real estate agency Royal LePage, nearly a quarter (23

Toronto is Now the 5th Most Unaffordable City in the World to Live

After years of skyrocketing real estate prices, Toronto has earned its place among the five most unaffordable cities in the world. According to the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, Hong Kong, Sydney, Los Angeles, and London are the only cities where rising house prices relative to income reflect starker inequality. Over 14 years,