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Toronto home sales up 17.4 per cent in December, average price up 12 per cent
December 2019 residential sales reported through TREB's Multiple Listing Service (MLS) System by Greater Toronto Area realtors were up by 17.4 per cent year-over-year to 4,399 according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB). Total sales…
Vancouver home sales decline below long-term averages in 2019
The Metro Vancouver housing market experienced below average sales activity and moderate price declines in 2019.The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) has reported that sales of detached, attached and apartment homes…
House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER – Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values have fallen dramatically.``It's an…
Elevate the Smart City Planning Game
In conversations with cities and municipalities looking to launch their own smart city plan, there seem to be two main questions that rise to the surface: why should we become a smart city, and how do we become a smart city?A ‘smart…
What’s New is Old Again
On October 17, 2017, it appeared as though the future of city-building had arrived in Toronto. On that day, the Prime Minister, the mayor and then-executive chairman of Alphabet stood side by side to announce a plan to turn a derelict…
The Same Boat
Emergency situations due to extreme weather are moments we experience collectively, and not just on the granular community level that Michelle Xuereb eloquently discusses in her op-ed when referencing the ice storm of 2013, but also on a…
We’re In This Together
Do you remember where you were when the ice storm hit in 2013? If you weren’t here, imagine waking up to a city coated in ice. The tree branches were hauntingly beautiful, shimmering while making an unnerving creaking sound. We’d woken up…
Montréal Announces a 2030 Agenda to Enhance its Built and Living Environment
The City of Montréal has made a commitment to leveraging sustainability and creativity with the acquisition of the Montréal 2030 Agenda. To achieve exemplary quality in design and architecture, the City made designers and architects…
The Inclusive City; the Sustainable City; and the Missing Urban Developer
In June of this year, New Yorkers bore witness to a rather unfamiliar historic moment. In the persistent urban struggle between real estate lobbies and tenant protection organizations, surprisingly it was the latter who found their hands…
Cities Lead Fight against Climate Change and for Renewable Energy
The 2019 UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) newly released Emissions Gap Report reveals that almost 1,200 jurisdictions and local governments in 23 countries had declared a state of climate emergency by November, says international policy…