71 Morningside Avenue: How much would a chi-chi nabe Toronto house with a second-floor walk-out deck, like this one, be worth to you? For the eye-popping price it recently sold for, read on. A few weeks ago, word spread that a modest three-bedroom bungalow in North York sold for $421,800 over...
How to reinvent the wheel make this Holiday Season new and exciting? A question we ask ourselves at HGTV every time the season rolls around, as it does with the onset of each November, whether you succumb to it or not. While most of us can enjoy some part of the holiday season, some people find it...
Let's get one thing out of the way: more bathrooms is always better than less. This is not a post about first-floor powder room or no first-floor powder room because I think we can all agree that given the choice, most people would take the house or condo with the extra bathroom. The topic yet to...
One of my most favourite quotes from the cult classic (and director Michael Moore's best work, IMHO) Canadian Bacon (1995): Boomer (John Candy): The capital, Toronto. RCMP Officer at Headquarters: No, the capital of Canada is Ottawa. Boomer: Yeah, right. Do we look that stupid? Ottawa!...
About a month ago, Crack Shack or Mansion, a Vancouver-based guessing game poking fun at the crazed local real estate market, went viral. A picture flashes on the screen and players guess whether the home is a) a known den of illicit drug activity or b) a property worth in upwards of a million...