A rundown old house with a hodge podge of apartments in Roncesvalles Village drew crowds last week when it was listed with an asking price of $769,000.
The property at 52 Harvard Ave. drew five competing bids and sold for $913,000. The owner purchased the house in 1988 for $135,000, he says.
“It’s gone from pandemonium to just a heavy frenzy,” he says.
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Don’t not wish to join the Bull Run ? Sorry, you ain’t got no choice, because it takes …
$430,000 to live in a former glue factory in the Junction Triangle
Neighbourhood: Dovercourt-Wallace-Emerson-Junction
Price: $434,900The Place: A one-bedroom unit in Wallace Station Hard Lofts, a former glue factory that takes its name from a now-defunct railway station. And,
Someone paid $2.9 million for the Metro Theatre
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The Metro Theatre, near Bloor and Christie, closed late last year, ending its 35-year run as Toronto’s most prominent (and eventually, last remaining) porno theatre. Its co-owner, Karim Hirji, had been trying to sell it for years, and had listed the building for $3.59 million as recently as 2011. Now we know it ultimately didn’t fetch quite that price.
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As well as,
The Royal York Hotel is up for sale
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Anyone with a significant amount of money to spare could become the owner of a Toronto landmark, because, as the Globe reports, the Royal York Hotel is up for sale. Its owner, Quebec’s public-pension manager, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, is exiting the hospitality business. In addition to the 85-year-old Royal York, the Caisse is unloading the Hotel Vancouver.
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