Cannabis use is legal in Canada, but your condominium board may have regulations that you should know about if you’re hoping to smoke pot at home.

The laws regarding legal cannabis use are expansions of the rules regarding alcohol under the Liquor License Act of Ontario as well as the rules regulating tobacco under the Smoke Free Ontario Act.* Make a list of what you can and cannot do when it comes to drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes, and it’s likely the same list applies to legal cannabis use.

The nuance between money and currency is more complicated than most people think, yet it’s imperative that you understand the difference if you want to protect your wealth over the long term from inevitable market corrections. I use the word inevitable because every single currency throughout history, and there have been thousands of currencies, has crashed at some point and returned to a Gold standard.

The fundamental difference between currency and money is a concept known as “Store of Value.” Your real value, or wealth, is your time and your energy. Real money acts as a tool to store your time and energy over a long period of time, or until you’re ready to use it. Currency fails to be a store of value because the supply of the currency changes and is essentially controlled by reserve banks and governments. If the currency supply doubles, your hard-earned dollars halve in value. When the Greeks started adding copper to gold coins thousands of years ago they inadvertently created a currency that eventually collapsed their economy with an abundance of worthless copper coins.

Since we know everything there is to know about condos in Toronto, we obviously know which Toronto condos would be the best places to live to survive the zombie apocalypse. In the spirit of the season, we thought we would share this very important information with everyone.

At first glance, this 75 storey condo tower at the corner of Yonge and Bloor seems like a great place to last out against hordes of the undead. Gather friends and family and take refuge way up in a 1,500 sqft penthouse unit with two or three-bedrooms, two baths, and huge floor-to-ceiling windows from which you can watch the world end. At 75 storeys, no zombies are ever coming all the way up to eat your delicious brains. Then again, you’re probably never getting out of One Bloor, either! Once that power goes out, say goodbye to those convenient elevators, not to mention your running water!

Faced with no more long weekends until the December holidays, it’s time to roll up the sleeves and seize the opportunities of this fall real estate season. Across most communities and price points, it’s clear that we are experiencing a nice bounce and are likely to finish the year on a high note.

Over the last few weeks, 40-50% of condo sales have been transacting at or above the asking price, indicating that buyers are holding back from getting involved in bidding wars, while the condo market remains strong overall. To get a stronger picture of real estate this fall and into the new year, we spoke with the Canadian Real Estate Association‘s Chief Economist, Gregory Klump.

Over the last year, a new service has emerged in the ever-evolving world of digital real estate. It’s called an iBuyer or “iBuying.”

An iBuyer is an instant offer real estate business model whereby a seller can immediately sell their house or condo and leave the headaches and hassles of closing to the iBuyer service.

Sounds great from a time and energy point of view, but what about the cost? What about commission? In most cases, all sellers would like an instant offer on their house or condo for sale. While it’s a great and convenient concept, the problem with the model is that it’s far from cheap.

Ten York is a 65-storey Tridel condo development in downtown Toronto on a sliver of land between Harbour Street and York Street. The building has roughly 700 units. Before you even get to the fancy digital smart-home stuff, this building stands out for it’s spirited use of what could easily have been a throw-away plot of land. Look at that!

The heart of Ten York is called Tridel Connect. It’s the birth-child of Tridel’s collaboration with real estate technology company SmartONE Solutions. They have brought cutting-edge technology from South Korea to create the most advanced smart-community tech in Canada to date.