Globe and Mail (Adrienne Tanner)/August 25
In 1980, when Eileen Mosca moved to Vancouver, she and her partner bought an old house on Rose Street that was split into two suites, essentially rendering it a duplex. “It was a seedy pocket of Grandview Woodlands, but it worked for us,” she recalls. “We had three kids and no money.”
Continue readingDaily Commercial News (Don Wall)/August 27
The Ontario Electrical League (OEL) has fired the first volley as the Ontario College of Trades (OCOT) enters its next round of reviewing apprenticeship ratios for construction trades.
Continue readingMortgage Broker News (Ephraim Vecina)/August 28
Sales of new homes in the Greater Toronto Area fell by 44% on a year-over-year basis in July, per the latest data from the Altus Group.
The significant slowdown also marked a 55% decline from the 10-year average, according to Altus. Sales activity in the condo segment (covering low-, medium-, and high-rises) as well as stacked townhouses and loft units fell by 52% year-over-year and 40% from the 10-year average.
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Continue readingBy Anthony Capkun Becoming an ironworker or a sprinkler fitter should be “as obvious as becoming a firefighter or a lawyer,” said Monte McNaughton, Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Training & Skills Development, when the province announced in Fall 2020 that it had appointed three youth advisors to help attract youth to the trades: Jennifer Green, director of […]
The Housing Price Index (HPI) also showed 27.6 per cent year-over-year increase between January 2020 and January 2021 Stock image NEWS RELEASEBARRIE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS*************************Month-Over-Month (January 2021 vs December 2020)Residential HomesSimcoe County466 residential units were sold in Simcoe County last month—a 6.6 per cent decrease from December 2020. During the same time a year ago (December 2019 […]
