
May Warren
Housing Reporter at The (Toronto) Star
Reporter @TorontoStar covering housing. Currently on maternity leave.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | May Warren
The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area new condo market had the slowest quarter since 1995, with just 533 sales, according to numbers from research firm Urbanation, released Tuesday. “It’s about as slow as it can get. There just isn’t really demand right now for buying presale condominiums,” said Shaun Hildebrand, president of Urbanation.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | May Warren
Hollywood actors don’t often take a role in the local politics of small-town Ontario. But Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds was so inspired by a young girl with cancer he met over a decade ago, he was willing to make an exception. The “Deadpool” star made a special virtual appearance at a Cobourg town committee on Wednesday to ask that a local arena be renamed in honour of Grace Bowen. Reynolds first met Grace at a Canada’s Walk of Fame event.
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2 weeks ago |
therecord.com | May Warren
A sunny, street-facing balcony off the master bedroom in one of the newly completed rental suites at Gerrard and Main streets is the perfect spot for a future tenant to get a low-tech update on transit. “You can see what’s going on: where’s the streetcar?” said builder Rolf Paloheimo with a grin, poking his head out.
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3 weeks ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | May Warren
It was a “VIP deal,” Nizar Tajdin recalls the realtor telling him back in late 2021. Put five or 10per cent down on a small condo unit under construction in one of the hottest real estate markets in the world. In a couple of years, sell it to someone else at a huge profit. The 41-year-old Montreal property manager made an $85,500 deposit on an $855,000 studio in Forest Hill — knowing he could never qualify for the mortgage on the unit.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | May Warren
For decades, thousands of Canadian seniors who’ve flocked south to escape winter with our friendly neighbours have enjoyed the title of ‘Snowbird.’Now, they’ll simply be ‘aliens,’ in the eyes of U.S. President Donald Trump’s rapidly changing — and hostile — government.
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