Category: Real Estate


Real People Buying Condos: The Blind Faith of Pre-Construction Send Us Your Design and Real Estate Dilemmas!  Ask an Agent: When is the Best Time to Sell or Buy? Live Blogging Tonight: Marriage Under Construction, Episode 7 Live Blogging Tonight: Marriage Under Construction, Episode 6 Video Question of the Week: Is No First-Floor Powder Room a Deal Breaker? Live Blogging Tonight: Marriage Under Construction, Episode 4 Design Dilemma: Carson Helps out a Texan! Ask an Agent: How Important is the Size of a Lot When Buying a House? Real People Reno: People Are Doing It For Themselves  Ask an Agent: How Old is Too Old When Buying a Condo? Question of the Week: In Real Estate, Who’s a Bigger Pain: Buyer or Seller? Real Estate Marathon This Weekend! Moving Mayhem: Shopping at the Other IKEA Store Something Fun To Do if You’re in Toronto: Tour Cabbagetown Homes 
 
Mar
04

Real People Buying Condos: The Blind Faith of Pre-Construction

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Posted by Guest Blogger 3/4/2010 11:22:00 AM
As many of us know, few things are more nerve wracking and empowering than purchasing your first home . With experts touting that getting into the market is always better sooner rather than later, there's been a country-wide boom in real estate that hasn't
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Mar
03

Send Us Your Design and Real Estate Dilemmas!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 3/3/2010 5:00:00 PM
Got a question? Let’s open the floodgates! Send us your design and real estate dilemmas and we'll get one of our hosts to answer them! Right now we've got Scott McGillivray ready to share his expertise on anything from creating an income suite to decorating
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Feb
17

Ask an Agent: When is the Best Time to Sell or Buy?

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Posted by Catherine Jheon 2/17/2010 1:35:00 PM
It's time for another installment of Ask an Agent where you have the opportunity to ask an actual real estate agent questions about buying and selling. Our gal of expertise is Avryll McNair of Bosley Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage . She’s been selling and
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Feb
15

Live Blogging Tonight: Marriage Under Construction, Episode 7

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Posted by Vanessa 2/15/2010 10:35:00 AM
Finally, tonight on Marriage Under Construction, Nat and Rod start work on their spa-like master suite. After living in what the couple call the frat house for what I'm sure feels like decades, I'm sure they'll be thrilled to get a move on with a real,
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Feb
08

Live Blogging Tonight: Marriage Under Construction, Episode 6

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Posted by Mia Rodak 2/8/2010 3:44:00 PM
Tonight's episode, called Weather To Do The Front, finds Nat and Rod trying to decide on which project to tackle next. Nat is pushing for the principle bedroom (she's ready to get out of that basement!) but Rod is pulling for the front yard (and with
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Jan
26

Video Question of the Week: Is No First-Floor Powder Room a Deal Breaker?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 1/26/2010 2:49:00 PM
Like all first-time buyers, when we were looking for a home we had a long, inflated list of 'must-haves' which we eventually had to eat. When we finally met and fell in love with our dilapidated beauty, the list of things we said we absolutely could not
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Jan
25

Live Blogging Tonight: Marriage Under Construction, Episode 4

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Posted by Camille Hemming 1/25/2010 1:25:00 PM
To kick off: a little reno strife. Rod wants a dream kitchen; Nat desires a bedroom spa. Enter the engineer who settles it by pointing out which walls are load-bearing and can't be removed, so Melissa diverts Rod and Nat's attention by suggesting a backyard
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Jan
20

Design Dilemma: Carson Helps out a Texan!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 1/20/2010 9:08:00 AM
Not that Texans are an exotic species, it’s just that I always get super excited when we get emails from faraway places. And while I know it’s cold in Canada, I wouldn’t mind talking backyards for a moment to remember what green looks like… Today, a popular
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Jan
13

Ask an Agent: How Important is the Size of a Lot When Buying a House?

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Posted by Catherine Jheon 1/13/2010 10:25:00 AM
It’s been a while (!) since our inaugural post, but it’s time for another installment of Ask an Agent where you have the opportunity to ask an actual real estate agent questions about buying and selling. Our gal of expertise is Avryll McNair of Bosley
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Dec
24

Real People Reno: People Are Doing It For Themselves

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 12/24/2009 8:08:00 PM
New year's resolution: be more handy. Here are two Canadian homesteads, on opposite sides of our great land – Nelson and Toronto – that have taken matters into their own hands. DIY soldiers, really. For is DIY not the essence of a Real People Reno? From
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Nov
18

Ask an Agent: How Old is Too Old When Buying a Condo?

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Posted by Catherine Jheon 11/18/2009 9:33:00 AM
We’re kicking off a new feature called: Ask an Agent here on Style Sheet . I don’t know about you but it seems most dinner party conversations I go to inevitably turn to real estate . It might be me since it’s the first section I flip to in the Saturday
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Oct
19

Question of the Week: In Real Estate, Who’s a Bigger Pain: Buyer or Seller?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/19/2009 9:06:00 AM
Ever had a series of open houses and sat in your car across the street while picky families with turned-up noses marched right out of your front door? Ever dismayed at a tiny condo that was over-renovated and way overpriced? Well it’s fall, and In the
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Oct
09

Real Estate Marathon This Weekend!

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Posted by Alicia Cox 10/9/2009 2:44:00 PM
When you're lying on the couch, resting and digesting, tune in to HGTV's How To Buy and Sell Marathon all long weekend. Starting Saturday at 2pm ET , we're airing our best real estate programming including six HGTV specials on everything from the 20 Best
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Sep
23

Moving Mayhem: Shopping at the Other IKEA Store

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Posted by Scotch Mommy 9/23/2009 10:28:00 AM
Shortly before we moved, the 2010 IKEA catalog landed in our mailbox and it wasn't long before I found it filled with pink sticky notes from my pre-teen daughter with all the items she was dying to have in her new room. Well, we've moved, and we've already
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Sep
18

Something Fun To Do if You’re in Toronto: Tour Cabbagetown Homes

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/18/2009 1:32:00 PM
One of my favourite pastimes: going for a walk after dinner as the neighbourhood’s houses light up with the advent of dusk, and sneaking a peek at other people’s interiors. My husband and I did this religiously in the last few months of my pregnancy,
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