But you will be once you step foot into the exclusive Armony Cucine kitchens found only at The Guardian.
Commence drooling, foodies! Exclusive Armony Cucine kitchens at The Guardian
Aspen Ridge Homes planning big charity drive for Family Day and it’s a big social media win!
We know you’ll be busy spending Family Day with your family (who else?) but if you have a moment to hop on your computer (or smartphone) you should head to Aspen Ridge Homes‘ Twitter and Facebook pages and give them a follow and a like.
Why? Because for every Facebook like and/or Twitter follower Aspen Ridge receives on Family Day, the company will donate $1 to Habitat for Humanity Canada.
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that helps low-income families caught in the cycle of poverty. While it’s international in scope, the Canadian branch of the organization has provided over 1,800 families with access to homeownership. Read more
Pixel is a hop, skip, and a jump away from shops, restaurants, schools, and more!
Nothing quite beats the convenience of having everything you need right on your doorstep.
That’s why we were excited to find out that Pixel, a Calgary condo development by Battistella Developments, has a Walk Score of 92.
If you haven’t heard of Walk Score, it’s a really cool website that measures the walkability of addresses all over North America. Rating an address out of 100, it looks at everything in the surrounding area, including schools, cafes, and shopping, and rates how easy it is to walk to them. Read more
Free this weekend? Looking for a home? Check out these events!
It's February! That means this will all be green again soon enough…
You know, sometimes people don’t appreciate February enough, but it’s really quite a fine month. It’s short and sweet and there’s Valentine’s Day for the romantics and Family Day for the more family-oriented Ontarians and Albertans out there (jealous BC?).
It’s also when we start seeing the light at the end of this long tunnel called winter and words like Sun, warm, and t-shirt gradually make their way back into our vocabularies.
And hey, it seems like it’s also a great time to look for a home! Our development industry events calendar runneth over with open houses, previews, and new releases for you hopeful homebuyers out there.
Have a look at the events listing below to see where to be this weekend if you’re in the market for a new home! Read more
Calgary named one of the world’s fastest growing cities thanks to affordability, low taxes, and energy
We always knew Calgary had some serious street cred, but there’s a new study backing up its stellar reputation.
New Geography just released its list of the world’s fastest growing cities, and Calgary is featured in the top 20.
The list is a bit different than the ones we normally see as New Geography chose to ignore established world players like New York, sprawling mega cities like Mexico City, and recent newcomers like Toronto that have gained popularity and charm in the last few decades.
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Mini villagers take over the East Village for FIRST’s photo contest
Soha Zia's winning entry
When Gulliver was shipwrecked on Lilliput the last thing he expected to find was an island full of tiny people. It’s the last thing we expected to find in the East Village in Calgary, too, but over the last few months miniature East Villagers have been popping up all over the neighbourhood.
Okay, so the East Village isn’t really secretly populated by miniature people. The gang at FIRST, the new condo project by Slokker Real Estate Group and Fram Building Group, came up with a really creative photography contest, centred around extremely tiny East Villager figures exploring their neighbourhood and showing off what it has to offer.
With 100 entries, the photos were super imaginative, shedding light on just how great a neighbourhood the East Village will be to live in. But there could only be one winner, and the grand prize went to Soha Zia for this surreal photograph of the villagers.
Soha will get to spend three days at Place d’Armes Hotel & Suites with $1,500 in spending money. A little jealous? We are too…
But what’s the story behind FIRST? We guess we got a tiny bit ahead of ourselves (pun very much intended) explaining the contest and forgot to give you the scoop on First, first. Read more
The Guardian aims to please with food, nature, and convenience… What more do you need?
We all need a few essentials to survive: food to eat, a place to sleep, and exercise to stay healthy and fit.
We don’t know about you, but half the time we end up driving in circles trying to accomplish it all, especially that food and exercise balance…
The folks at The Guardian, the new condo project by Hon Towers Ltd., seem to understand this and have built their new project with our dilemma in mind — condos that strike a balance between urban and pastoral life, with easy access to the things you need. Good call, Guardian, good call!
Straight from the Experts: All you ever wanted to know about new home purchase costs in Alberta
Pixel by Battistella in Calgary, one of many amazing Albertan developments.
The following article is a guest post by Brennan Valenzuela, a writer for Ratehub.ca, a website that allows people to compare Canadian mortgage rates. It also features a comprehensive education centre to help address common first-time home buyer questions. Ratehub is a great source for all the latest Canadian mortgage news.
Alberta housing market overview
The oil and gas industry continues to prop up Alberta as a great destination to buy a home. According to StatsCan, Alberta has the highest median total income in Canada, excluding the North West Territories. Read more
Free this weekend? Looking for a home? Check out these events!
Even though it's 2 weeks away, this duck family is ready for Family Day. Are you?
Everyone getting prepped for Family Day? It’s only two weeks away!
No love for Family Day? We don’t blame you, it’s hard to get pumped up for such a new holiday. But here at BuzzBuzzHome, we’re trying to build up some anticipation to the February 20 celebration of all things familial. That’s why we’re starting our own Family Day Countdown to get the excitement building… BUILDING… BUILDING!!!
And if it doesn’t work out, then hey, at least we can tell our families that we tried.
We’ll be updating the countdown every Friday until Family Day. In the meantime, you hopeful house hunters out there can enjoy our weekend listing of all the must-attend development industry events. Read more
Nine tell-tale signs you’re a real estate obsessed nerd!
February 1, 2012
Posted in ALBERTA, BC, DEVELOPMENTS, MARKET, ONTARIO, QUEBEC, WATER COOLER
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What happens when someone accuses us of being real estate nerds? We say, yes, we most certainly are! That’s something to be proud of here at BuzzBuzzHome and we’re always happy to meet other real estate obsessed nerds from all over the world.
Aren’t sure if your interest in real estate has become a full-blown obsession? Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a list of tell-tale signs that you’ve got a serious case of real estate fever.
If you can relate to any of these then we’d say “Welcome to the real estate nerd club”.
1. You get a thrill out of seeing renderings for a new condo launch before they are released to the public (and, take great pride in leaking them to others).
2. You drive by condo lineups, just to check how many people are in line. Read more
