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D'Arcy McGovern

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Real Estate Editor of The Globe and Mail. [email protected]

 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Can architecture save the world? It’s worth a try /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/life/hom…
Can architecture save the world? It’s worth a try

Can architecture save the world? It’s worth a try

Vishaan Chakrabarti, who founded the New York-based Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, argues that the design professions need to deliver mass quantities of new buildings, mostly housing

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B.C. court strikes down law aimed at pushing through controversial Vancouver social-housing project /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
B.C. court strikes down law aimed at pushing through controversial Vancouver social-housing project

B.C. court strikes down law aimed at pushing through controversial Vancouver social-housing project

Decision may impact other projects but won’t halt proposed construction on lot across from Kitsilano school opposed by group of residents

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An empty Quebec mall decays as the surrounding suburb gasps for housing /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
An empty Quebec mall decays as the surrounding suburb gasps for housing

An empty Quebec mall decays as the surrounding suburb gasps for housing

Longueuil, Que., just across the river south of Montreal, wants to redevelop the site. But the mall’s owner is not interested

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Ontario hasn’t updated property tax assessments since 2016. Here’s what it means for homeowners /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/investin…
Ontario hasn’t updated property tax assessments since 2016. Here’s what it means for homeowners

Ontario hasn’t updated property tax assessments since 2016. Here’s what it means for homeowners

The province hasn’t updated property assessments in nearly nine years, and doesn’t have a date for when the appraisals will take place. When they do, it could mean big changes to your tax bill

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Toronto play The Bidding War taps into city’s real estate anxiety /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/arts/the…
Toronto play The Bidding War taps into city’s real estate anxiety

Toronto play The Bidding War taps into city’s real estate anxiety

The play takes aim at Toronto’s housing crisis with a story set during a frantic, one-day bidding war over the city’s last affordable home

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Meet the fixers kinrosscordless.com/2024/11/…

Meet the fixers

Haliburton SIRCH Repair Café volunteers save hundreds of items from landfill (My article published in the Oct. 29/24 Haliburton Echo — I am proud to support the great work of the SIRCH Repair…

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From the rareinsults community on Reddit: Poor Joe Rogan

From the rareinsults community on Reddit: Poor Joe Rogan

Posted by CantuTwists - 113,716 votes and 762 comments

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Globe editorial: Pierre Poilievre’s simple slogans alone won’t build the homes /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Globe editorial: Pierre Poilievre’s simple slogans alone won’t build the homes

Globe editorial: Pierre Poilievre’s simple slogans alone won’t build the homes

The Conservatives have good-mixed-with-bad ideas on housing

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Condo completions are soaring in Toronto – for now /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…

Condo completions are soaring in Toronto – for now

With a surge of new housing supply, rents are experiencing a rare decline

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Canada Lands development Downsview West plans to deliver affordable housing, novel design /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/arts/art…
Canada Lands development Downsview West plans to deliver affordable housing, novel design

Canada Lands development Downsview West plans to deliver affordable housing, novel design

Toronto’s largest development project, situated on a former Canadian Forces base, is remarkable for its scale and design approach

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Why you should visit these historic ‘Swiss’ chalets – in a Canadian mountain town /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/life/tra…
Why you should visit these historic ‘Swiss’ chalets – in a Canadian mountain town

Why you should visit these historic ‘Swiss’ chalets – in a Canadian mountain town

Six chalets in B.C. have been restored into chic boutique hotels that overlook the Dogtooth mountain range and are almost too cozy to leave

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Time to buy? Some house hunters take a contrarian view /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/real-est…

Time to buy? Some house hunters take a contrarian view

The Globe and Mail talked to three sets of buyers who decided to strike a deal just as the competition cooled down

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Experts in distressed projects take over Kitchener development theglobeandmail.com/real-est…
Experts in distressed projects take over Kitchener development

Experts in distressed projects take over Kitchener development

ELM Forward was initially brought in to stabilize the building after the original developers were pushed into insolvency in October 2023, owing more than $80-million

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Bank of Mom and Dad goes to work on the condo segment theglobeandmail.com/real-est…
Bank of Mom and Dad goes to work on the condo segment

Bank of Mom and Dad goes to work on the condo segment

Parents are eyeing the current weakness in the Toronto condo market as an opportunity to buy for their adult children

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From the canadahousing community on Reddit: 1100 sq/ft home listed for sale in Canada has 13...

Explore this post and more from the canadahousing community

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Home sales lacklustre in September as Canadian real estate association predicts 2025 market rebound /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…

Home sales lacklustre in September as Canadian real estate association predicts 2025 market rebound

The Bank of Canada has started lowering interest rates, but prospective homebuyers may be holding out for bigger cuts

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Interest rates have further to fall, but fixed mortgage rates are already nearing their bottom /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/investin…

Interest rates have further to fall, but fixed mortgage rates are already nearing their bottom

Tuesday’s lower-than-expected inflation report means that quicker and steeper interest rate cuts are expected from the Canadian central bank

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Live updates: Canada’s inflation rate falls to 1.6% in September /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/10/09/trave…
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Poilievre banned from speaking in House of Commons over comment about foreign affairs minister /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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