Are there too many condos in Toronto? Real estate wiz Brian Persaud takes on this contentious issue
We're feeling like nobility just looking at these new renderings from The Royal Collection
Energy consumption is on everybody’s mind, but how can we stop just talking the talk and start walking the walk when it comes to making a difference?
We stumbled on this awesome video for a new smartphone app called Quinzee that promises to allow you to track your home’s energy consumption. With Quinzee, your home reports to you using data from your smart-meter. As you may know, every home in Ontario has a smart meter that gathers detailed info about energy use. Read more
This is the type of thing we’d expect from Dubai or Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but we’re a little surprised to hear that Azerbaijan has ambitions of building the world’s tallest skyscraper.
The current plan has the Azerbaijan Tower pegged at 1,050 metres with 189 floors. That’s 220 metres taller than the Burj Khalifa and 50 metres taller than the Kingdom Tower planned for Jeddah.
Okay, we know what you’re thinking. “Big deal, another super tall skyscraper, just build a ladder to the moon already.” Well, the difference here is the Avesta Group of Companies, the company financing the project, aren’t building it in the capital city (Baku, for all you trivia nerds out there). Read more
Hear that? It’s the sound of Metro Vancouver commuters and the environment rejoicing over ground finally being broken on the Evergreen Line.
After a decades-long wait full of uncertainty and doubt, shovels have hit the ground to begin work on the much-anticipated new rapid transit line that will bridge Coquitlam and Vancouver (making Port Moody the middle man).
While the focus is mainly on clearing land and starting electrical work for the next few months, the project is expected to be finished in 2016. Read more
The following is a guest post by Marc P. Kemerer a partner with Blaney McMurtry LLP in the firm’s Planning and Expropriation law group and the Architectural/Construction/Engineering Services (ACES) Group. Marc has acted for a number of large developers and regularly provides strategic and legal advice on large residential, condominium, retail/commercial and subdivision developments.
Forget pensions, the latest issue coming out of Ottawa involves a dispute between a condominium owner (the “Owner”) and his condominium board (the “Board”) in that city. Read more
We guess Tony Hsieh got a little tired of shoes and is trying urban planning on for size.
The superstar American entrepreneur who built Zappos into a billion dollar online shoe and apparel store recently announced that he would be relocating the company’s headquarters from a Nevada suburb to downtown Las Vegas.
So what’s the big deal? Well, there’s a BIG twist…
While it’s known for its hotels and “entertainment”, Vegas’s downtown core is not what you would call thriving. Read more
You probably read the title of this post and were pretty confused. You should be… We were pretty puzzled when we first heard about this story as well.
Turns out that realtors in California are getting creative and more than a little tech savvy with the way they shoot aerial footage of homes.
According to the LA Times, the Los Angeles Police Department has issued a warning to realtors using drones to make sure they abide by federal aviation regulations. Read more
Following a little bit of planning, designing, coding, and hard work by our design and engineering teams, BuzzBuzzHome released a new site update dubbed “Project 15″ on January 25th at 6:00pm.
You might be asking yourself, “What in the world is Project 15?” Well, if you’re reading this post, you may also have noticed a couple of not-so-subtle changes to the site.
The standard point of entry on BuzzBuzzHome is the home page. But oh, wait a second. What is this slick new incarnation that you’ve stumbled upon? Read more
In a very unpatriotic move, Canadians polled by Ipsos Reid on their top brands named Apple their fave, followed by Google and Ikea.
We’ve just gotta ask, where’s the timbit love guys?
We guess it’s forgivable, the survey asked 1,013 Canadian adults what the country’s most “leading edge” brand is and Tim’s, while still an early morning necessity, isn’t exactly a leading edge brand. Read more
Looks like all the booklearnin’ has really paid off!
In a “Top 10 Smartest Cities” list meticulously compiled by Boyd Cohen, an author and climate strategist, Toronto ranks at number two.
Cohen defines smart cities as cities that “use information and communication technologies (ICT) to be more intelligent and efficient in the use of resources, resulting in cost and energy savings, improved service delivery and quality of life, and reduced environmental footprint — all supporting innovation and the low-carbon economy. Wow! That’s quite the definition.
Cohen published his list on business and tech site Fast Company and after awarding Vienna the top honour of smartest city on the planet, he moved on to Toronto, the highest rated smart city in North America.
Here are his reasons for placing Toronto at number two: Read more
Well said Ashley Esqueda from Mobile Nations… The Samsung Smart Window is capable of replacing actual windows in homes and, we can only assume, tech savvy offices. It’s basically a 46-inch LCD, only it’s totally see-through and can overlay touch controlled widgets and browser and media data. Awesome! Read more
