Each year, our local Georgian Triangle Association of REALTORS®, (GTAR) invite a panel of our local municipality’s planners to update our members about current events in their geographic areas. Over the next few weeks, The Collingwood Blue Mountain Real Estate Blog will post summaries from these discussions. Planners Part 3 – Town of Collingwood – [...]
Condominiums now account for about a third of all new homes built in Ontario and likely much higher than that here in the Collingwood – Blue Mountain areas. All condominium projects are made up of two parts: the common elements which are jointly owned and, the units which are individually owned. The term condominium applies [...]
Would a two bedroom apartment in a secure building in Collingwood at a cost of about $1,000 a month including heat, hydro, water, sewers, mortgage payments, condo fees and taxes, be affordable? With a down payment of just 5%, great opportunities like this do still exist in Collingwood. Once a rare cooperative complex, Bayview Terrace [...]
Emotions are running high in Collingwood, AGAIN, in regard to the Admiral Collingwood Place development slated for the corner of Hurontario and St. Marie Streets in the downtown core. The site is located at the southern gateway into the Heritage Conservation District. (Patience, we’re getting to some pictures in a sec.) This contentious site was [...]
Wasaga has the Beach. Blue Mountain has the Escarpment. Collingwood has the Terminals. Recently, Collingwood council passed a motion asking staff to prepare a “modified tender process” for the possible sale and future uses for the iconic grain elevator structure which was declared surplus by the Town in 2006. Few buildings provoke reaction among the public [...]
With the first half of 2011 now behind us, here is a look at the real estate market in the Georgian Triangle which encompasses several communities including keys areas such Collingwood, Blue Mountain, Wasaga Beach, Meaford, Clearview and Grey Highlands. In the month of June, there were 196 sales including 173 residential sales (single family [...]
If you live in Creekside in Collingwood, you might be interested in attending a public meeting being held tomorrow (June 29th) at 5:30 at the corner of Chamberlain Cres and Davis Street. Hosted by the Town of Collingwood Planning Services, they are looking for input on the design of a new park to be built [...]
Way back in August 2008, I wrote a post about an old house I listed for sale in downtown Collingwood. That house fascinated me to no end as it was the only remaining residential house in our historic core and had been long abandoned in near original condition. Thankfully, the house sold to Cindy and Steve [...]
Read Part 1 here. If, as mentioned in Part 1, a house had an accessory suite in existence during the Rae years (1994 to 1996), the suite MAY automatically have legal, non-confirming by-law status however, the onus is on the owner to prove it. In addition, fire code regulations must be met. In making an [...]
So you want to buy a house in Collingwood with a basement apartment that you can rent out. The income will help pay the mortgage and carry costs. Easy plan, right? Not so fast. Recently, I attended an excellent seminar put on by Collingwood planning officials that pointed out the considerations that buyers, renovators and [...]
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