by Chris Seepe | Jul 3, 2019 | Featured
Four years ago, I attended a presentation about Darlington, Ont.’s nuclear plant refurbishment program. They projected 2,000+ full-time and perhaps 4,000 “transient” jobs would be created over the next 10 years. I asked the general contractor what their plans were for...
by Diane Slawych | Jun 25, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Toronto are not alone in experiencing a crisis in affordable housing. Many big cities around the world are facing a similar problem. It’s an issue that is explored in a new documentary called PUSH, by award-winning Swedish...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 10, 2019 | News
Inclusionary zoning – mandating an affordable housing component in all new developments – has been proposed as one approach to affordable housing issues in Toronto and elsewhere. In a recent address to the Land & Development Conference in Toronto, CBRE Canada...
by Penelope Graham | May 28, 2019 | News
It’s a common narrative that real estate can be prohibitively expensive in Canada’s biggest urban markets. However, a new data report reveals just how out of reach homeownership can be, even for city residents earning a living wage. Numbers compiled from Zoocasa find...
by REM Editorial Team | Mar 14, 2019 | Letters to the Editor
I had the opportunity to take the CREA Realtor satisfaction survey the other day and noticed that our national organization seems quite proud of their advocacy and political action efforts on behalf of Realtors. I confess I’m not sure why – for this reason: General...
