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
We always thought San Francisco was one of the most progressive cities in the US, but judging by this new addition to the urban landscape, the city is getting back to the basics.
Brooklyn-based artist Mark Reigelman collaborated with an architect and an engineer to build and position this rustic wooden cabin 40 feet up the side of the Hotel des Arts in downtown San Fran. Read more
Holy smokes, 78 storeys? What a beast!
Aura, the College Park condo tower by Canderel, was already slated to soar to incredible heights but thanks to a decision by the City’s Committee of Adjustment, it will rise even higher than previously planned.
The skyscraping condo tower will now stand at 78 storeys (up from 75) and 273 metres, easily making it the tallest condo tower in the country.
Three additional floors mean more units — 50 new condo suites to be exact. Aura will now contain an astounding 985 units.
Some of those units will be Aura’s penthouse collection of suites, starting at the 75th floor. Penthouses start from $2.3 million and one astonishing suite is priced at $18.3 million.
The singular penthouse is 11,370 square feet and is “among Toronto’s most exclusive real estate listings,” according to Riz Dhanji, Canderel’s VP of Sales and Marketing.
This entire project is quite something and definitely signals the commencement of some next level condo development in Toronto.
If the 78 storey height isn’t enough to convince you, how about the 180,000 square feet of retail space? Or maybe the fact that the total square footage of the project now stands at 1.3 million. Read more
Today (February 17) beginning at 12:05am, BuzzBuzzHome is giving away 3 pairs of vouchers (6 vouchers) to a Hot Docs 2012 screening in Toronto.
A big shout out to B.streets and Lindvest Properties for hooking us up with this great prize! Did you know that every suite purchased at B.streets receives a pair of 10 year memberships to Hot Docs? Awesome! Read more
In terms of population, Surrey is slated to overtake Vancouver in the next decade.
It’s already the 12th largest city in Canada, and the second largest in BC, with its growth accounting for 37 per cent of Metro Vancouver’s growth between 2006 and 2011. That’s a lot of people!
Of course with nearly three times the landmass of Vancouver, Surrey’s rapidly increasing population and expanding infrastructure isn’t terribly surprising.
But with such a quick transition from sleepy Vancouver suburb to bustling metropolis, the folks in charge have started to prepare for their time in the spotlight. Read more
The Economist isn’t planning on ditching their revered city livability ranking any time soon, but they are spicing things up a bit for the 2012 list.
The Economist Intelligence Unit is organizing a contest with BuzzData, a web startup, that will let people build-on and augment the livability and cost of living indices with other data sets to produce new kinds of livability rankings. 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
Toronto’s population is burgeoning according to new census data released today by Statistics Canada.
The population of the Toronto census metropolitan area increased by 9.2 per cent since the last census in 2006. That increase was ahead of the national growth rate and Ontario’s growth rate over the same period. The national growth rate was 5.9 per cent while the province’s population increased by 5.7 per cent.
It should be noted that those rebellious statisticians at StatsCan measure populations and growth in census metropolitan areas and these don’t conform to established municipal boundaries. Those rascals! Read more
Today (February 8) beginning at 12:05am, BuzzBuzzHome is giving away a Valentine’s Day (February 14) dinner for two at Paese Ristorante on King Street West.
A big shout out to Paese Ristorante for hooking us up with this great prize.
Paese recently opened its second location, at 333 King Street West, to complement its flagship restaurant at Bathurst and Wilson. Read more
Check out this video for a take on what you’re likely to hear coming out of your, or your agent’s, mouth when purchasing a new home.
Did you spot all the cameos? Was this the best Super Bowl commercial of the evening? Or at least, the best real estate-related Super Bowl commercial? Weigh in below!
