tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12894949750614452662024-03-16T00:09:09.981-07:00Toronto Real Estate JournalThe latest news from Toronto's incredible real estate industry. Learn about Toronto Condos, Toronto Homes and more. Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18062871477807447676noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289494975061445266.post-30197173674689541642015-09-26T05:29:00.001-07:002015-09-26T08:18:23.418-07:00CMHC to look at foreign ownership of Canadian real estate<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal;">Data indicating how much of Canada’s real estate is being snatched up by foreign buyers is scant, but the country’s national housing agency is working to change that.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span font-size="" ng-bind-html="content.text" style="max-width: 100%;">In a briefing note dated May 15, 2015, obtained by The Canadian Press through an Access to Information request, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., says it will be hosting “bi-lateral meetings” and roundtables with industry stakeholders to fill a number of data gaps, including the share of new and existing homes owned by foreigners.</span></span></div>
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The initiative will go beyond the limited data the agency currently gathers, including a survey of property managers indicating how many condo units are owned by people whose permanent residence is outside of Canada.</div>
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“Currently there is no perfect source of information on the level of foreign investment in the housing market,” chief economist Bob Dugan said in a statement to The Canadian Press.</div>
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“CMHC has undertaken steps to address this data gap. As a result, we know a lot more about it today than we did a year ago and are continuing our program of work to determine the level of foreign investment in Canadian residential real estate.”</div>
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The contentious issue has been in the spotlight recently, especially in Vancouver, where some have blamed demand from offshore buyers for the city’s soaring home prices.</div>
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In August, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper waded into the debate, saying that if re-elected, the Tories would gather data on foreign ownership of Canadian homes — and would even consider implementing taxes and other rules to govern the practice.</div>
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However, the briefing note prepared for Pierre Poilievre, the minister responsible for CMHC, suggested that work was already underway at CMHC.</div>
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“For high priority data gaps that it cannot address on its own, CMHC has started to engage in discussions with other data providers and organizations,” the document reads.</div>
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“Although this work is at an early stage, CMHC will keep you informed regarding progress.”</div>
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Other gaps that CMHC intends to address include the total volume of mortgages issued and outstanding and mortgage data broken out by lender type, characteristics of borrowers, property type and geographic location.</div>
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In another briefing note, the agency said it is keeping a close eye on the rise of unregulated mortgage lenders such as mortgage finance corporations, mortgage investment corporations and individuals.</div>
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“The exact number of unregulated lenders in Canada is not known since this includes private individuals and a multitude of small private firms,” the note, dated May 26, 2015 and also obtained under the Access to Information Act, reads.</div>
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“CMHC and its government partners continue to closely monitor developments in unregulated mortgage lending.”</div>
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</span></paragraph></span>Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18062871477807447676noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1289494975061445266.post-72414884295588197692015-05-25T08:16:00.003-07:002015-05-25T08:16:50.783-07:00What!? Vancouver could implement a speculation tax on real estate?!<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Gotham SSm A', 'Gotham SSm B', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24.31296157836914px;">Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is calling for a new tax on real estate speculators to cool the city’s white-hot real estate market. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Gotham SSm A', 'Gotham SSm B', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24.31296157836914px;">Debate has been raging over the impact of foreign investment on Metro Vancouver house prices. Robertson says speculators are to blame, forcing </span>young people and the middle class out of the city<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: 'Gotham SSm A', 'Gotham SSm B', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24.31296157836914px;">. He says he’s asked Premier Christy Clark to impose a speculation tax to increase affordability.</span><br />
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“We definitely need taxation tools that discourage speculation on real estate,” said Robertson in a statement. “It’s clear that rampant speculation on real estate is driving up prices in Vancouver. Vancouver needs the B.C. government to take action on creating a speculation tax and recognize that we need a fair and level playing field to make housing more affordable for residents in Vancouver, and throughout the province.”</div>
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Prominent developer Bob Rennie of Rennie Marketing Systems was the first to propose the idea at Friday’s Urban Development Institute’s luncheon.</div>
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“So if you buy in a presale today…you pay your deposit today and you complete in two-and-a-half to three years, there’s often a higher value at completion and at completion if you sell within three months, six months, nine months, 12 months. Perhaps we should tax that profit because it’s interfered with affordability,” he explains to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Global News.</em></div>
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However, Tsur Sommerville of UBC’s Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate says flipping condos may not be what’s driving up the Vancouver real estate market.</div>
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“I don’t see what the evidence is that all of the sudden we’re in a raft of quick flips on housing. So taxing something that’s probably not the problem — quick sales and turnarounds — seems to me kind of silly in terms of trying to address the affordability problem,” he tells <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Global News. </em>“What we’re seeing is really large price increases in the single family product, but that’s the product where there’s not more supply, there’s less supply of that.”</div>
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The province has not ruled out the idea of a speculation tax, but says changes must be weighed carefully and not destroy the equity owners have in their homes.</div>
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“By trying to move foreign buyers out of the market, housing prices overall will drop,” said Clark in the legislature earlier this month. “That’s good for first-time home buyers but not for anybody who is depending on the equity in their home to maybe get a loan or use that to finance some other projects.”</div>
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The Ministry of Finance issued the following statement to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Global News </em>with respect to a proposed speculation tax.</div>
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The Province recognizes that home ownership in British Columbia can be challenging for some people.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Governments need to be careful that any tax would have the desired effect, without undermining the equity that people may have built up in their homes.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Programs designed to relieve some of these challenges are targeted toward those who need it most, while ensuring that municipalities continue to receive the full benefit of assessed property tax.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you purchase a home for the first time, the First Time Home Buyers’ Program reduces or eliminates the amount of property transfer tax BC residents pay when they purchase their first homes. The threshold for the first-time home buyers program was increased to $475,000 from $425,000 in last year’s budget. This exemption can save first-time buyers up to $7,500 when purchasing their first home. A partial exemption continues and now applies to homes valued between $475,000 and $500,000.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">In preparation of each year’s provincial budget, the Minister of Finance reviews all taxes and considers whether changes are appropriate within the context of a balanced budget and other spending priorities.</li>
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Robertson says Ottawa also needs to step in.</div>
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“Limiting speculation is an important action for the B.C. government but we absolutely need the federal government involved in affordable housing,” said Robertson. “Their complete absence in supporting low- and middle-income housing is making it extremely difficult for people, especially young people, to live and work in Vancouver.”</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;">Using quirky bookshelving adds both </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;">practicality and personality to this child's bedroom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;">Interior designer </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;">Maurizio Pellizzoni</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;"> of </span>MPD London<span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;"> has utilised the space behind the bed in this room to create an unenclosed walk-in wardrobe. 'The mirror conceals double doors which lead to the bathroom.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;"> The sheer fabric curtain creates a feeling of space, making the room feel lighter and less cluttered.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If your landlord has asked you to fill out a condition report, do it as soon as you're able to, and follow their instructions on whether you're to drop it off to them or send a digital file, and include photos if you can. Also make plenty of notes and photos to keep yourself. And while there might be plenty of other things you want to dive into doing, also consider doing a walk-through and taking notes of certain maintenance items you want to do, like make your windows more energy efficient, and more. You don't have to do anything just yet, just make a list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Even if your new home was cleaned before you moved in (and hopefully it was!) there still sometimes seems like there are a few spots that need a little extra attention by you. Some folks prefer taking extra swipes over places like toilet seats and door knobs. We like to suggest you do an extra clean in places that you might not be reaching often when your furniture gets into place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27.2000007629395px;">Though LOHA did create an aesthetically distinctive project, design, in this case, has less to do with just the look of things than with how the building performs—not only in terms of energy and spatial efficiency, but also as a human and urban experience. “There’s this threshold zone in every unit that has a relationship to the street, which, in L.A., is a very interesting idea,” juror Sheila Kennedy said. “There’s a public life that’s greater than what my bedroom or my kitchen looks like.” </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27.2000007629395px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">—John Gendall</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">These distinctive sofas with the button tufting and the high, rolled arms have been around at least since the 1850s, and they look as good in modern interiors as they did in Queen Victoria's drawing room.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">When working on a budget inside an older, traditional structure, small touches of modern design can make a big impact. In this this Brooklyn <span class="s2">brownstone</span>, the design firm MADE implemented a black-and-white color scheme and added the Torroia pendant light by <span class="s2">David Weeks</span> in the dining room to modernize the space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the front hall of their 16th-century farmhouse in Suffolk, antiques dealer Tarquin Bilgen and his garden-designer wife, Isobel, used trompe-l'oeil panelling in striking dark green and red (painted by Alan Dodd) to highlight a collection of Ottoman portraits that Tarquin inherited from his father. The couple had Alan paint similar effects in their spare bedroom and their upstairs hallway.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 29px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To negotiate strict planning restrictions, Architect Alex Haw of Atmos deftly built down rather than up in this top-floor London flat. He lowered ceilings in the rooms below, in places where height wasn't imperative - for example above the kitchen cupboards. This opened up the attic and allowed this pocket of outside space which sits beneath the parapet of the building and cannot be seen from the street. </span></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Before painting and rearranging, spend some time thinking about your family and how you live. Look through magazines for inspiration and pull out ideas or rooms that appeal to you. Gather things from around the house that make you feel good and study them carefully for color cues and perhaps a clue to the mood you're looking for in your home. This is the beginning of a well-planned and decorated living area.<br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The focal point: </i>Sometimes rooms have natural focal points (places the eyes travel to immediately upon entering a room) — a fireplace, a bay window with a view, maybe even a built-in bookcase. If the room doesn't have a natural focal point, create one with a dynamic piece of art or a colorful area rug.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The furniture:</i> Determine whether the furniture satisfies the functions you've planned for the room. If a piece isn't working or if it's too large or too small for the size of the room, get rid of it or trade it for something else around the house that may be more appropriate.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The lighting: </i>Lighting should be selected for the functions of the room as well as for visual appeal. Every task will require either direct lighting from a lamp or indirect lights that simply brighten the room for conversation or TV-watching. Accent lighting — floor spots, track lighting or recessed spotlights — enhance texture, color and room details.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The furniture arrangement: </i>Draw your room on graph paper. Measure and mark electrical outlets and switches, vents, windows and doors. Measure your furniture and place it in your floor plan. Generally, the main furniture pieces are directed toward the focal point, keeping the major traffic patterns open. Fill in with pieces you'd like to have that may or may not be available now. Be sure to balance high and low pieces as well as heavy and light ones around the room.</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.625;">The mood or feeling of a room is created by your choice of colors, the style of furnishings, the amount of texture and pattern you choose and your accessories. Since there's so much to think about when creating a mood, establishing a theme through the selection of an inspiration piece can make this portion of a decorating project much more fun and interesting. Here are the factors you need to address when setting a mood:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The inspiration piece:</i> The easiest way by far to decorate is to start with some source of inspiration. A decorative pillow, a favorite scarf and even a magazine photo are good places to begin. Select your inspiration piece wisely, and be sure it makes you feel good when you look at it. It's the basis for selecting your theme, colors, patterns and textures.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Theme:</i> Analyze your inspiration piece and develop a theme name for it. For instance, a needlepoint pillow with a botanical design on a black background may inspire a title like "formal botanical garden." Be descriptive with your theme name and all sorts of supporting ideas will come to mind. Botanical prints, striped walls, greens and floral colors, formal fabrics and furniture, dark woods and black accents all fit this particular theme.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Color cues:</i> Color should always support the theme. Many times, the colors that are most appropriate are found in the patterns and design of your inspiration piece. Generally, it's best to choose three colors in a room: a dominant color, used for walls, carpeting and fabric backgrounds; a secondary color, found throughout the room in fabrics and accessories; and an accent color, used sparingly to give energy and excitement to the room.</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Furniture:</i> Aside from being functional, your furniture plays an important role in supporting your theme. Some pieces may function well but their style or color may stick out like a sore thumb. Try to salvage it with slipcovers, tablecloths or paint. If it's a lost cause, remove it from the room.</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Accessorizing:</i> Pictures, vases, pillows and area rugs are all integral parts of a great decorating plan. Generally, they should support your theme, but allow more flexibility here; an antique picture frame could add wonderful variety to a contemporary room. Accessories are located on walls, mantels, furniture, tabletops and floors; they can be paintings and photos or pillows.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whimsy:</i> This is optional in your decorating scheme, but it can counteract any sterile quality that may have been created by strictly following all the guidelines. A beautiful country sitting room may get some relief from a playful quilt placed over the fireplace.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.28rem; padding-left: 1rem; position: relative;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The unexpected:</i> Interest doesn't have to be whimsical; it can simply be something unexpected in a room, like a brightly-painted ceiling.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px;">This futuristic apartment design in Taipei, Taiwan comes with many interesting elements, including a life-sized iron man and a time-capsule elevator. Developed by </span><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White Interior Design</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px;">, the project known as</span><strong style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> La Fatte Residence</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px;"> unveils an unconventional approach: “</span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I used the industrial elements as its base while combining a hint of retro. The colorful designer furniture are used to accentuate the owner’s exceptional taste. The time-capsule elevator brings the two levels of the house together and adds a sense of futurism</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px;">“, explained the designer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So you think that smart growth, the Greenbelt and planning for Places to Grow is ruining the housing market? Think again.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Indeed, several articles have recently argued against smart growth planning on the grounds that it is the cause of our current housing affordability problems. The underlying assumption is that smart growth -- by preventing development on some land through greenbelts or urban growth boundaries -- places artificial limits on land supply and therefore contributes to an increase in the cost of housing. This argument does not take into consideration the full range of factors that are responsible for the current escalation in the price of housing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like many jurisdictions around the world, the Ontario government, for example, introduced long overdue growth management policies more than a decade ago. This was a necessary political intervention to put an end to the planned sprawl and environmental degradation that had characterized the previous decade as planning regulation were relaxed and development reigned supreme and often unchecked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What makes the Ontario case particularly powerful was its strong commitment to both creating incentives for more compact forms of urban growth and establishing firm rules for protecting our natural environment close to the metropolitan areas in the Greater Golden Horseshoe surrounding the Toronto metropolitan area. Dismantling these smart growth policies would jeopardize efforts at ensuring a sustainable future for our cities, suburbs and countryside, while having little impact on the cost of housing. There are at least four factors unrelated to smart growth that require consideration in evaluating the reasons for escalating housing costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First, the price of housing in a city is not solely determined by the supply of newly built housing. As only a relatively small percentage of all housing falls within this category (on an annual basis new housing starts account for between one and two percent of the existing housing stock), the price of housing is primarily determined by the interaction of supply and demand within the existing stock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In addition, there is little to no evidence that there is actually a shortage of new built housing. Over recent years there have been unprecedented rates of new housing construction in Canada. However, due to the withdrawal of Federal, and in some cases Provincial, involvement in the provision of affordable housing, units being built are less affordable to low-income households.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Second, in large metropolitan areas more important than land regulations alone, is the role of accessibility in determining home prices. That is to say, the easier it is to get to a place, such as work, school or grocery stores, the higher the demand for that location, increasing its price. Cities cannot grow into the countryside indefinitely because there is a limit as to how far people can travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As it is, workers, students or people seeking recreation are caught between the rock of high home and rental prices downtown versus unbearable distances of more suburban locations to jobs, schools and cultural institutions. When levels of congestion experienced in large Canadian metropolitan regions are added to the equation, the distance people are willing to commute is compressed. This is because it takes longer to travel a given distance, as we all know, when roads are congested. This places an additional geographic limit on urbanized areas. Housing within an acceptable commuting distance (and time) of employment locations therefore increases in price.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Third, related to the previous point, housing costs cannot be considered independently of transportation costs. More central locations are often more expensive in part because they come with reduced travel time and costs. Homes in distant areas, which are not serviced by public transit -- suffering from decades of neglect and underfunding -- require almost one car for every adult living in the household.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This adds costs to each household, to business operations and to the public purse that continues to subsidize automobility (our societal dependence on cars and fossil fuels). These households also have to spend an inordinate amount of time traveling and sitting in traffic. Those who critique smart growth on the basis of high housing costs are therefore not comparing apples to apples. We need to consider the combined costs of housing and transportation under different planning scenarios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Finally, there is the speculative nature of housing markets. Housing as an investment, particularly in a context of high growth rates, responds to changing employment and financial markets conditions. What distinguishes housing from other financial markets is that it is both a commodity and a basic need. When economic conditions are favourable, people enter housing markets, and thus contribute to an inflation of housing costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Historically, in Canada, people entered ownership markets for good reasons. It was to build equity for retirement and enjoy security of tenure, advantages to which tenants do not have access in Canada. This tendency has become more pronounced as governments have continued to undermine public investment in pensions and other forms of social security and as renters' rights have been diminished. In recent years, this trend has been further fuelled by cheap debt. Low interest rates, in combination with the ideal of home-ownership, labor market instability and stagnant incomes, have resulted in unprecedented levels of household debt.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now that we have established that smart growth and planning are not the main contributors to the current affordability problems, the question is what urban policy and planning can actually do about rising home prices.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Contrary to what critics suggest, smart growth and planning in general have actually long been engaged in efforts to provide a diversity of housing types at different prices. There is indeed a large supply of single-family homes in Canadian, and U.S., cities. Smart growth planning has intended to add a greater diversity of housing to this scenario. Planning also intends to bring housing closer to employment and other daily activities to reduce the cost of transportation. Should this type of planning continue? Let's envision two different possible futures:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yes, we can continue building into the countryside to provide an ample supply of low-density, single-family housing. In this future, the listing price of real estate looks somewhat more affordable. But this future also depends on the costs associated with high rates of automobile ownership and infrastructure investments to pay for an ever-expanding city. We would lose environmentally significant, recreational and agricultural lands near our urban areas. Heavy automobile use would continue to contribute to air pollution, congestion and climate change. Finally, we would spend more time in our cars than with our families and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or we can choose an alternate future. A future where there is a larger variety of housing types at different prices so they become more affordable to a larger segment of society. This future comes with lower automobile ownership and greater protection of our environmental resources as we build at higher densities, and accommodate walking, cycling and public transit use. If we lived closer to where we work, we can also spend more time for activities other than commuting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The latter future will require us to acknowledge the need for public sector involvement, through planning and housing policies at all levels of government. It will require us to consider improving the economic conditions that have made it difficult for large segments of the population to afford housing due to low wages and temporary work arrangements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And we will have to remember that as demand for transit-supportive, walkable neighbourhoods increases, we will need to create more such neighbourhoods and adopt housing policies to keep these places affordable. Higher density living does not just mean high-rise condominiums. It also means single-family homes on smaller lots, row and semi-detached housing, and walk-up and mid-rise apartments. This future can be planned if we want it.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Investors are betting on big returns from young renters who can't afford to buy in the red-hot real estate market and don't mind living in a unit, about 500 square feet, where their dining table might have to fold down into a bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Although developers are pitching micro condos as an affordable entry point into the market, brokers say it's mostly investors – catering to a demographic of young professionals increasingly flocking to the downtown core – that's driving demand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Micro suites tend to fetch higher rents per square foot than larger units, as many renters are willing to live in a slightly smaller space in order to save a bit on costs and live closer to the city core.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Condo research states condos under 500 square feet can bring in well over $3 per square foot, while the rest of the market averages around $2.50 or $2.60.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There are nearly 3,000 micro condo units under construction in Toronto that are slated to be completed this year. If investors snatch them up, that could spur developers to build more of the micro units to satisfy demand from investors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is something that the market and developers are going to be paying very close attention to in 2015. Sometimes we don't know how strong demand is until we're shown the supply."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The challenge comes in securing a mortgage for the micro units. Brokers say Canada's five biggest banks are hesitant to provide financing for units below a certain minimum square footage, concerned that investors will sell off the properties if the housing market starts to slide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The 2015 Pan Am and Para Pan Am Games, which are due to kick off in Toronto this summer, could replicate the impact on real estate and development that was seen by <a href="http://www.canadianrealestatemagazine.ca/top-neighbourhoods/vancouver-bc-6043.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Vancouver</a> following the 2010 Olympic Games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With the dollar falling the way it is and more Americans coming from places like Chicago to see Canada for the first time, it could spur some investments for sure. It gives people a first-hand look at what Toronto is like, which is what we saw in Vancouver when the Olympics were here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />A realtor at Royal LePage in B.C., said the Olympics shone a spotlight on Vancouver, which made Canada’s most expensive residential city a destination for new investors and buyers at a time when development and real estate was booming. There were a lot of development projects that began a couple years before the Olympics even began that [was a boon] to industry. There was also a lot of vibrancy in the economy and it was part of the allure of the Olympics that did that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Many people rented their homes during that time. False Creek was an area that really benefited and it provided a huge boost to real estate in Vancouver. One could argue that the Olympics really kick-started some of the things we’re seeing in B.C. today with home prices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />The Olympics opened the way for infrastructure projects, such as the speed-skating oval, as well as the development of condominiums, single-family homes and commercial space for real estate companies.<br /><br />The Vancouver’s Olympic Village is now thriving, and many townhouses and multi-family homes have been built and sold in spaces that were occupied during the 2010 Olympics. It’s brought pools of housing to the Vancouver area and there’s no shortage of people looking to buy homes here. The Olympics really put us on the map and there were some lasting effects that have been felt. We see a wave of investors from foreign countries coming to live and set up businesses in Vancouver and the Olympics could have had a lot to do with what we’re seeing now.<br /><br />It will take some time before Toronto sees these same trends, but so far the city has put a lot of development behind the Pan Am Games, most notably the Union-Pearson Express rail that will connect Toronto’s Pearson airport and Union train station together.</span><br />
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<br />The kitchen is also compact, but the countertop plays double duty beautifully with its butcher block construction. Even the walls become a multipurpose space with the use of chalkboard paint, making it easy to create a shopping list and impossible to forget the milk. A cozy dining table with whimsically mismatched chairs is a great place to grab a cup of coffee and have a quick catch up at the beginning – or end – of a long day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the year 2015, the kitchen is not being built for just cooking. Rather, it is becoming a multi-purpose room that simultaneously allows restaurant-worthy meals to be made while also acting as the hub of all conversation, dining, social gatherings and festivities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We already know that kitchens seem to have a magic power of pulling in the party—but in 2015 it’s a party room with more than one purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, let’s look at the hottest kitchen trends for 2015, and ring in the new year right with a new, <em style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en vogue</em> kitchen:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2015 is the year to give your kitchen a bold upgrade. This means not being afraid to add a little color to your décor where you might not have expected it before. Sometimes it takes the creation of contrast to get the aesthetic look you’re aiming for—and bold colors are ‘it’ in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This year, try painting your cabinets any bold shade (dark or light). These bodacious colors naturally draw the eye in and create a focal point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be sure to pull all of your primary kitchen features together in an upgraded and modern fashion by balancing bold colors with lighter neutral tones throughout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Your kitchen needs to be well-lit in order to keep up with your culinary adventures, but also provide the perfect place for conversation and mingling to happen at get-togethers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Industrial-style lighting is very on-trend for 2015. What does this style look like? Well, it varies, but here are some key elements to look for:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For 2015 the hot kitchen trend is very much an industrious one. Kitchens are taking on a new personality thanks to popular cooking shows that exhibit industrial kitchens that are outfitted with all the restaurant-quality fixings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The kitchen island remains the center of the kitchen, but thanks in part to these television shows, the island has shifted. Mobile kitchen islands are all the rage and there’s clear reason for their rise in popularity. Built with function and efficiency in mind a mobile island gives you the benefit of extra counter space, without restrictions on your kitchen floor plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kitchen islands that can be moved from place to place open up opportunities for space in your kitchen you wouldn’t have with a stationary island. And the style of island has begun to mimic a more industrial standard with steel wheels and stainless steel shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pull-out pantry shelves not only make the search for the right ingredient easier, but virtually painless. Shelves that pull out mean you’re able to see everything at once and just as easily rearrange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make this the year that you eliminate kitchen stress by adding a set of pull-out pantry shelves. You’ll kiss the days of digging in the dark goodbye when you’re finally able to visualize what you actually have in that pantry and find it within seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Designers are adding (and sometimes hiding) these tall drawers in the most unusual places, taking advantage of otherwise wasted wall space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This style of drawer also works well for those small and sometimes hard-to-store items like spices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kitchen islands are becoming more than just a prep or serving station in 2015—they are acting as home and decor furnishings. This year, transform your kitchen from culinary base to display case with the addition of a unique kitchen island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Consider incorporating glass or mirror doors on island storage units, or refurbish an old barn table into an island by adding lower shelving units for storage. Regardless of the style you choose, begin to look at your island as a style statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">According to architect Stephen Alton, flooring options for 2015 are going to be amazing, particularly when it comes to the kitchen. Porcelain is going to be a popular flooring choice this year, especially for those on tighter budgets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Available in many different colors, patterns, and textures, porcelain lasts as long, if not longer than many other flooring products— despite the images of fine china that the name suggests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2015 is definitely looking to be the year of the tile as far as kitchen design is concerned. Not super difficult to install and available with colorful grouting options, there’s no reason to stop with a backsplash when putting tiles in your kitchen—why not cover an entire wall?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Consider tiling the interior of your kitchen sink—it’s beneficial on several levels. Not only does it provide a water resistant surface, but allows for easy cleaning that’s also pleasing to the eye. Colorful tiles in your sink give your kitchen a fun edge that allows you to incorporate bold hues you might not be brave enough to try on primary walls or backsplashes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Gleam of brass details can turn your kitchen into a very elegant space. Thick shiny brass pendants, brass knobs, handles and brass facets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was a record-smashing year for sales of investment properties in this Canadian city in 2014, but experts don’t expect this trend to extend into 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Investors from Alberta and Toronto looking for more opportunities and REITs always hunting for more solid real estate investments made last year a banner year. Cheap mortgage rates (and a huge amount of idle cash looking for better returns) fueled this enthusiasm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There are a lot of multi-family properties under construction now in Winnipeg and perhaps we are moving more closely to an oversupply of condos and rentals. Volume of new starts will be down as the market has to absorb the excess availability.</span><br />
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