BuzzBuzzHome July 31, 2010 Its Saturday morning and its hot and sunny in the city of Toronto. Once again we’ve used the abracadabra of Woopra analytics to determine the 5 ‘most popular’ stories from BuzzBuzzHome’s Blog! over the past week. Without further ado – they are: 1. What Not to Do on the roof of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto We’re a little embarrassed by this one and there was even some editorial debate as to whether we should … Read More

Kiyoko Fujimura Buzzbuzzhome Corp. July 30, 2010 During the month of June, CREA lowered its home sales forecasts to 490,600 units in 2010. However, after weaker-than-expected spring sales, CREA has once again lowered its projections. According to CBC News: The number of resale homes sold in Canada is forecast to hit 459,600 in 2010, a 1.2 per cent decline from 2009. But, on the bright side (for sellers at least), prices are expected to increase by 3.5% in 2010. 2011 … Read More

BuzzBuzzHome July 30, 2010 Below video featuring BlindType technology has already been viewed 329,000 times on Youtube.

BuzzBuzzHome July 30, 2010 It hasn’t been the greatest of summers for downtown Toronto landlords. In the first half of 2010 office rental vacancies in the downtown core hit double digits for the first time in five years. This is according to a report by Avison Young, Canada’s largest independently owned commercial real-estate company. The vacancy rate in the downtown core rose to 10.3% from 7.6% this time last year. Downtown Toronto provides 70 million of the city’s 170 million … Read More

BuzzBuzzHome Corp. July 30, 2010 A problem that many developers face when trying to integrate a new condo building into a traditional setting is that it just doesn’t fit. Long-time residents can become quite irate when a new development threatens to drag their area into the 21st century while they prefer the quaint, old timey ambience of days past that still thrives in their traditional neighbourhood. Kudos to Sierra Building Group for doing their best to marry traditional and modern … Read More

BuzzBuzzHome July 29, 2010 The following is a recent photo taken of the roof of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario. And we thought this roof was just used for gardening and growing produce for the restaurant. Some great other titles from Twitter… Let us know if you have any other titles for this picture, @BuzzBuzzHome… @BAdougall – “Royal treatment at the Royal York. Taking guest experience to new heights.” @416Jesse – “Employee of the Month. FTW” @torontostarr – … Read More

Kiyoko Fujimura Buzzbuzzhome Corp. July 29, 2010 Depending on where you put the decimal place 1250 can mean very different things. $12.50 can buy you a mediocre bottle of wine and $125.00 can buy you a pretty decent seat at most concerts. But, move that decimal place one more place over, and you get the number of units approved for a project in Burnaby– 1,250. And that’s a lot. They’re going in at UniverCity at Simon Fraser. And the population … Read More

Cliff Peskin BuzzBuzzHome July 2010 It may be a touch premature to declare the U.S housing crisis over but it definitely looks like our partners to the South are over the worst. American Home prices rose in May for the second straight month as more buyers waded into the market. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index released Tuesday posted a 1.3 percent increase in May from April. Nineteen of 20 cities showed price gains month over month. Minneapolis … Read More

BuzzBuzzHome July 29, 2010 Toronto’s new development frenzy continues with the announcement yesterday of a large three tower project, including a new Delta hotel, in the southcore financial district. The project, called Southcore Financial Centre (SFC), is by British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC). The development will encompass a full block in the southern part of the downtown core from York Street to Lower Simcoe Street. SFC will feature three towers: First Tower: 18 York – previously announced and already … Read More

BuzzBuzzHome July 29, 2010 American blogger Paul Kedrosky had this to say about the below image, “Awfully kind of Canada to tag off the U.S. and carry on with the whole real estate bubble thing without us. Such nice and helpful people. And polite too.”