It is a caveat homebuyers in Greater Toronto have become increasingly aware of in recent years. Nestled in among modifiers like “builder’s dream” and “prime location,” a short phrase informs potential buyers that the property used to house a marijuana grow-up. Legally, real-estate agents must include this information, but as the number of raided grow-ops in the city has climbed, so too has the number of listings with the unfortunate caveat that can dramatically affect the selling price. “I Read more [...]

We all know how the economic downturn in the recent past adversely affected the life of every common man. With numerous companies putting down their shutters for ever to uncountable people shunt out from their offices, small businesses collapsing against the decreasing funds and countries struggling to maintain an economic equilibrium, recession struck a deep whole in the lives of many. Well, the real estate market being the hardest hit, it was inevitable that some of the largest and most extravagant Read more [...]

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Most of the park is accessible only to hotel guests, though there is a public observation deck, a 19-second elevator ride from the street. A better ruse, though, is to book a table on the terrace of one of the two restaurants up there: Ku dé Ta (pretty ordinary cooking, but the food is hardly the point), or Sky on 57, an about-to-open restaurant run by Singapore's most celebrated chef, Justin Quek. Built at a cost of £3.7 billion, the hotel has claims to be a wonder of the world, Read more [...]