Check Yourself You know that feeling, after your bags are all packed for a vacation, where you’re certain you’ve still forgotten something critical? When making the transition to a new home, that feeling of “Did I remember my…” can be even more intense. There’s a…

  Wistfully watching friend’s social media posts from their cottage visits can make summers for Torontonians without such an escape feel a little left out. But all of that fun can be had right here in the city, without a 3-hour bumper to bumper drive…

A Street By Any Other Name… Canada has a history of borrowing names from its British ancestors. In Ontario alone, there are over 100 cities and towns with English names. There’s the obvious ones, like London, Cambridge and Windsor, but the names run from Abingdon…

November is upon us. Luckily, in Toronto, it’s usually still not too cold to get out of the house (although the temptation to nest becomes strong around now!). Also, luckily, Toronto is also known as a city of parks. That’s no more evident than in…

Florals for Spring? Ground breaking.   It’s finally near! Even though spring officially began March 21st, most Torontonians would argue we haven’t seen much of the green stuff (well, except for the opening of a few bricks and mortar cannabis stores, that is) since. But…

It’s the beginning of September in Toronto, which heralds the descent of hordes of wide-eyed youths alighting on Bloor Street – no, we don’t mean U of T frosh, but another set of ingenues: the TIFF celebrities. Yes, it’s that time of year again, the…

Does it spark joy? That’s the question Marie Kondo – the queen of tidying up whose book and Netflix show have spawned a wave of furious cleaning not seen since Hoarders first aired – asks the people she helps declutter their space. It’s a fair…

They make it look so easy on HGTV – find a home with “good bones” in need of some TLC, a gaggle of models-slash-contractors come and boom, thirty minutes later, you’re left with a home you love. In reality (not reality show!), it’s a little…

With the Toronto Raptors in the NBA Finals for the first time, it’s safe to say the city has caught basketball fever. Even fair-weather fans are jumping on the bandwagon as the city gets tantalizingly close to winning a championship, something we haven’t done since…

Everyone can feel a little Grinch-y in December. It feels like the holiday season starts earlier and earlier, the malls are packed, and slush-y streets make for wet walks to work. But even the most hard-hearted Scrooge can appreciate the magic of a holiday light…

We are pleased to announce our new Branch Manager. Zeus Killam has years (2) of experience in branch management in areas such as selecting branches, processing (chewing) branches, and distribution of branches. Zeus has a wealth of experience in Toronto real estate being both inside…

The weather has finally turned, our beloved Raptors won, and school’s out for summer. It’s a great time to be in the city. But being cooped up with the kids (or dogs! Or nothing!) isn’t a way to spend a summer – take advantage of…

Mounties, Tim Horton’s, maple syrup and ice skating. These things are about as stereotypically Canadian as it gets, but stereotypes sometimes exist for a reason. Many’s a young Canadian kid that slung a pair of skates over their shoulder and imagined greatness – whether they…

In a city where it feels like a structure gets knocked down to make way for a new condo every 3.4 seconds, sometimes it’s nice to know that there are still old buildings standing. Sometimes, though, those are the very buildings people would like to…

When you finally discover the perfect place to settle it can be both exhilarating and relieving at the same time. A condo can certainly add to that relief knowing that all the major maintenance as well as the simpler things like landscaping and snow removal…

When preparing a home for sale in the Toronto real estate market we carefully consider who the perfect buyer is going to be. Are they going to be a single person, a couple, a family, people who like to entertain, an entertaining family? This house…

Helping a friend move is in about the same category as getting a root canal, looking at pictures from your Great Aunt Doris’ vacation to that nude beach or driving along the 401 at peak rush hour – that is to say, it’s not exactly…

The Toronto International Film Festival is in town again from September 6 to the 16 th . And though it’s certainly a great time to catch, well, films, one couldn’t be faulted for hoping to also catch a glimpse of one of the many celebrities…

“Let’s meet at the local.” It’s a common expression, and one that could mean pretty much anything, depending on the neighbourhood. To someone in Cabbagetown, it’s probably the House on Parliament (which locals refer to as “the HOP”). For someone in Dufferin Grove, it’s probably…

Toronto will be celebrating its 185th year on March 9 and 10 at Nathan Phillips Square. It celebrates the day York was incorporated as a city and renamed Toronto, on March 6, 1834. They say those that don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it,…

House prices in Toronto are high. Don’t stop the presses, we know. But are they so high they’re unsustainable, like the papers love to claim? Looking at housing price data from the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) – which starts in the late 1960s –…

Like many of the big moments in a person’s life – weddings, children, graduation – moving homes can be filled with both great excitement and great stress. It’s no secret that in Toronto, and even across Canada, the real estate market is hot. Sellers have…

  Since 1957, when Governor General Vincent Massey made it official, Thanksgiving in Canada has been the second Monday of October. If you somehow forgot (after all, they don’t air A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving until at least November in the States!) there’s no need to…

Chestnut Park Real Estate agreed with a 2017 report about the luxury home market in Toronto and its country leading statistics. Sales of $1 million homes in the Greater Toronto area keep rising which put the Toronto real estate market into a league of its…

This is our first BLOG on our web site. We thought of many things to write, but we decided as Homeowners, we would share with you what we think needs to be done to prepare your home for the winter ahead. Install a new rubber…