The Collingwood – Blue Mountain Real Estate Blog

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 – [...]

There was lots of news this past week to get the juices churning.  Here’s a quick round up with my own take added.   Collingwood Connection:  Mushroom Farm Proposed for the Collingwood Grain Elevators On the surface, this one really caught my attention.  Innovative!  Toronto Star:  Neighbours Suing Neighbours:  Potentially Precedent Setting Lawsuit Regarding Wind [...]

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 a few weeks, we at the The Collingwood Blue Mountain Real Estate Blog are posting summaries from these discussions. Planners Update 2011 Planners Part 2 [...]

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 1 -  Rob Armstrong, Director of [...]

Here are some things that are good to know for the next time that someone starts talking to you about the real estate market, you’re going to look real good.  You can say things like, “Did you know that 40% of all residential properties sold in Collingwood are condominiums?” I’m happy to report that the [...]

From a media release today: Think of the Chelsea Market in New York City or the Distillery District in Toronto and you can imagine the vision for an exciting cultural corridor which is evolving in the heart of downtown Collingwood. Theatre Collingwood announces it will be creating a new home base on March 1st at [...]

One of the really nice things about living in Collingwood is that there is always something new to see or do and this holiday is no exception. For the first time this year, the folks at Downtown Collingwood are hosting an Ice Sculpture Festival that runs now through to New Year’s Eve.  The work is [...]

Recently, there was a situation in Collingwood where a tenant in a townhome kept 54 animals as pets!  An inspection found the following: 3 Dogs 4 Cats 17 Female Rats 12 Male Rats 1 Corn Snake i Bearded Dragon 1 Fish 2 Newts 1 Hedgehog 3 Rabbits 4 Degus 1 Chinchilla 1 Mouse 1 Ferret [...]

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 [...]

Georgian Gate is a proposed development in The Blue Mountains consisting  of 609 detached and semi-detached dwelling units.  The municipality has issued  Notices of Adoption of an Official Plan Amendment and a Zoning By-law Amendment with respect to the subject lands, shown on the map in the shaded area.  The Official Plan Amendment is being forwarded to the [...]