Are semis truly dead? Or are they barely breathing?
Yesterday’s article shed a lot of light on the market for semi-detached houses, or more accurately - the market for developers to construct them in the first place.
Here are my thoughts shown through my own experiences in the industry…
I’ve long surmised that the days of developers and speculators building semi-detached houses are long over.
Barring a handful of reasons such as zoning and of course, the money in their pockets, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to construct these dwellings, joined at the hip.
Below is a great article by Terrence Belford from the Globe & Mail that examines the dying breed…
For years, developers have used sex and lifestyle images to sell real estate, but some industry insiders say it doesn’t work and are calling for a more genuine approach.
This article first appeared in last Friday’s Globe & Mail…
Just a few city blocks north of where I call “home,” a massive waterfront revitalization project is underway.
The ribbon-cutting took place a long time ago, and the bulldozers have moved in!
I’m incredibly optimistic, especially when I look at the artist’s renderings and read about all the incredible facilities that will be built, but for some unknown reason, I can’t seem to shape my overwhelming sense of skepticism…
As much as I love to write, sometimes, I just can’t say it as well as somebody better.
Bruce Bell is one of Toronto’s foremost historians, and in the July issue of our local St. Lawrence Market newspaper, “The Bulletin,” Mr. Bell writes about the history of the North Market on Front Street, and surmises that “anything is better than what stands there now.”
As much as I dislike the “winning” design of the new North Market, I have to agree with Mr. Bell that the current structure has got to go…
Tomas Kaberle for Devin Setoguchi? Straight up? That’s a dream!
Wayne Gretzky is coming out of retirement to play for the Leafs? That’s great news!
Oh, yeah - and there’s also these two massive condominiums that just opened outside of the Air Canada Centre, brought to you by the good folks at MLSE…