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16 Oct Five Advantages of Renting a Condo Over a Purpose-Built Apartment

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If you've rented in Toronto this winter and spring, the buzz has been about one thing: purpose-built rentals. With developers switching no less than three in-progress buildings originally slated for condos to rental units after a nearly 20-year drought, the concept of the apartment building is undergoing a cautious renaissance. It's...

13 Apr Analysis: Planning for a Potential Toronto Vacancy Tax

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Toronto's housing market is on fire—and drawing the concern of governments, experts, and real estate associations alike as prices and sales rates keep on growing month after month after month. With Queen's Park actively considering a slew of measures to cool Toronto's tumultuous housing market—including a tax on vacant units...

23 Nov Six Tips for Renting a Condo in Toronto

Posted at 15:32h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Moving Tips, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

Whether you're fresh out of school and moving into town for your first Toronto job, or moving closer into the downtown to take advantage of the restaurants, the culture, and the scene, it's time to rent a condo in Toronto—so, where to start? With more than 29% of condominium units in...

22 Apr Condo Property Management

Posted at 13:54h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZvx_TrlF0[/embed] When you're choosing a condo property managament company to rent and manage your condominium in the Greater Toronto Area for you, you want one that will do all of the work ...

25 Feb Preparing Your Condo for Spring: A Quick Guide – Spring Cleaning

Posted at 12:29h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

It's closer than we think: butterflies, patios, open jackets, and fresh air. And spring means, inevitably, spring cleaning. Spring cleaning isn't just an old-timey ritual. Changes in the weather mean changes in our living space as the temperature rises, and that gap between winter and solidly warm weather is our chance...

11 Dec Decorating your Condo for the Holidays: A Quick Guide

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They're coming: Now that school is almost over and we've had our first few days of real fall weather, the New-Year-Christmas-Hanukkah trifecta is on its way. And if you're a committed celebrator, that means breaking out the blinky lights and decorative gourds to get your space into that seasonal mood. However,...

20 Nov Rent Long-Term or Short-Term? We Help You Decide

Posted at 15:06h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

It was Pan Am Games time, world-class soccer, and perhaps more idiosyncratically, a surge of interest within the rental world in short-term rentals. With Toronto residents hoping to make some cash housing the influx of sports fans while they themselves make tracks out of town, the Games has spiked condo...

19 Oct How to Prep Your Condo for Fall: Five Organization Tips

Posted at 09:55h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

The weather's turning, and if you live compactly in a condo unit, that means switching an already multi-purpose space to focus on hats, scarves, and potential turkey-related objects. Here are five organizational tips you can break out well ahead of time to get your condo ready for fall and keep...

02 Oct The Nuit Blanche Survival Guide for Condo-Dwellers

Posted at 09:35h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

Nuit Blanche is just around the corner: This weekend, thousands of your fellow citizens will hit the streets to see cutting-edge installation art, visit galleries, take a nip from those absolutely innocent bottles in absolutely innocent brown bags, or just glory in the simple pleasure of walking down the middle...

10 Sep Renting to Students: A Quick Guide

Posted at 15:23h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

With the new school year around the corner, Toronto's annual influx of new undergrad and graduate students have hit the streets—and the rental market. With the limited space in Toronto university residences, you're likely to get a few calls from full-time students if you're renting a small-space or studio condo...

18 Jun The Toronto Condo-Dweller’s Guide to the 2015 Pan Am Games

Posted at 16:20h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

The first international sports do in years is coming to Toronto this July 10th: the 2015 Parapan and Pan Am Games. With over 250,000 tourists and 8,000 athletes converging on the city, tourism is most definitely going to be a thing this summer—and if you're enjoying condo life, that might...

16 Jun How to Detect—and Avoid—Rental Scams

Posted at 15:57h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Moving Tips, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

Rental vacancy rates in Toronto are low—and even lower for Toronto condominiums, where just 1.2% of units are ready to be someone's new home. With the urge to jump on that excellent rental before someone else snags it away comes an unfortunate side effect: a rise in rental apartment and...

12 Jun When Renting a Condo Makes Sense

Posted at 12:08h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

Toronto real estate is having its hottest—and most reported on—spring and summer in approximately forever. With the argument between purpose-built rental, private rental, and putting down that money to buy a place right this second raging in the papers, it's harder to get a sense of when renting a condo—or...

03 Jun Self-Managing a Condominium Rental: Is It For You?

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There's a lot more information out there about what it's like to be a good Toronto tenant than there is about being a good landlord. Which explains why, when looking at renting out that investment property, it's easy to assume that there can't be much to it—and run into a...

29 May Five Ways to Maintain Your Investment Condo’s Value

Posted at 13:26h in Condo Rentals Featured Story, Investing, Property Management by Del Condominium Rentals 0 Comments

So, life is good: You've bought a nice investment condo in a great Toronto neighbourhood, lined up some conscientious, friendly tenants to live there, signed the lease, handed over the keys, and everything is going according to plan. But since you're in this for the long haul, how do you make...