BY Mark McDade, Sales Representative Some places shape your life in ways you don’t fully appreciate until years later. For me, that place has always been Tobermory. My family’s story on the Bruce Peninsula began…
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Toronto Region Market Update, August 2026
Not unexpectedly, the Toronto and Region residential housing market softened in August. That softening was nuanced and complex. Other than the month of January of this year, the average sale price for the entire Region…
Home, Where Life Unfolds
BY Charlene Kalia, Sales Representative There’s a moment that happens in almost every home before it changes hands. Sometimes it’s sorting through old photographs in a basement, or noticing the pencil marks inside a pantry…
Muskoka Lakes Market Update, July 2026
The Muskoka resale marketplace is a varied, segmented group of micro-markets, including town and residential properties, condominium apartments, some rural properties, and, of course, recreational waterfront properties. It is impossible to assess the Muskoka marketplace…
Toronto Region Market Update, July 2026
The high-level raw data flowing from the statistics provided by the Toronto and Region Real Estate Board paints a picture of a residential resale market that is taking a seasonal breather, as it did before…
The Art of Noticing
BY Cheenee Foster, Sales Representative During my years as a publicist working in film, fashion and art, I produced one of my most memorable fashion shows at Toronto’s iconic Horseshoe Tavern. It was not where…
Toronto Region Market Update, April 2026
Last month I used the title of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western to characterize the Toronto and Region residential resale market: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. April can also be characterized using a…
The Lot, The Water, The Bones — What I Actually Look at When I Walk a Muskoka Property
BY Kelly Fallis, Sales Representative I’ve spent more than a decade in this industry, and I still get asked why I do both. Why be a real estate agent and run a building company at…
Toronto Region Market Update, March 2026
The March Toronto and Region resale market is like an epic spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone. There’s good, there’s bad, and there’s ugly. Actually, we can substitute “strange” for “ugly”. The good. For the…
Work-Life vs. Life-Work: A Realtor’s 30-Year Journey into Mindfulness
BY Trish Drynan, Sales Representative For over three decades, my professional life has been rooted in Real Estate, a career that has helped me shape my understanding of people and my love of working with…