O'Neill Real Estate, The Beach, Toronto
Buying and selling homes and condos in The Beach and downtown Toronto
Six months ago I cancelled my cable service and invested $175 in an antenna and related gear to pull down nearly 30 channels of high definition TV with no monthly fee. Since April, I’ve saved about $245 in cable bills, leaving me $70 in the black with another $35 a month accruing every month. I’m… Read More
Believe it or not, Toronto has a cruise ship terminal, along with lots of signs to prove it. Cristina Monteiro asked why the city doesn’t take down signs in the port lands for the Rochester ferry, since the ill-fated service sunk in 2005 under a sea of debt and a lack of interest. We reported… Read More
Over the course of three days last October, Marc Girouard and Kelty Druet corresponded by email about the sale of Druet’s condo in downtown Moncton, N.B. After a series of emails and an offer and counter offer, Druet agreed to sell unit 203 at 850 Main St. for $155,000, or so Girouard thought. But Druet… Read More
Lot 164, glittering in the flash of smartphone cameras, is a magpie’s dream. The 50-carat diamond is about the same size as a quarter, and worth an estimated $10 million. But the diamond sold for $2.7 million ($3 million when commission is included) to a mysterious international buyer at an auction Sunday afternoon at the… Read More
Real estate is for optimists, if the recent gains among real estate investment trusts is any indication. As a group, U.S. REITs have risen 170 per cent from their lows in early 2009. Canadian REITs have done almost as well, rising more than 120 per cent. And neither of those returns factors in dividend payments…. Read More
The High Line park comes to an abrupt end on the west side of Manhattan, as a chain link fence keeps anyone from stumbling into a massive train yard that handles much of the island’s commuter rail traffic. Within a few years, that fence be will gone and an entire city block will have been… Read More
In another case of man versus machine, the iconic voice of the TTC’s subway stop announcements is slowly being pushed aside by an electronic wannabe. Millions of riders on the Yonge-University line will no longer be nudged along their journey by TTC communications assistant Susan Bigioni, who recorded the stop announcements in 2007. That’s because… Read More
It remains to be seen whether the iconic Sam The Record Man sign will rise again, despite Ryerson University’s agreement to ensure that it will. The school’s contract with the city, which declared the sign a heritage element, “says the university has the obligation to take the old sign, repair it and put it on… Read More
Wynne McCuish checked her mailbox like teenage girls check their iPhones. Incessantly. A young model in Toronto during World War II, she had fallen in love with her childhood friend, who was serving overseas. He was a dreamy blonde, with the looks of Brad Pitt and Robert Redford, long before they even had looks. “I… Read More
City hall’s budget laser, scanning the organization for waste, is aimed at piles of overflow recyclables some residents leave in clear bags beside their blue bins. The budget committee voted Thursday to save $500,000 a year by halting the practice of picking up the extra newspapers, plastic bottles and other waste that homeowners can’t cram… Read More
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