Spacing Montréal has a map showing changes in rent between 1996 and 2006 (corrected for inflation). It’s fascinating, as is the link to a U of T study of gentrification. If I were a renter looking for a good deal, this would actually be very useful information. Of course that says nothing about property values …
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Real Estate Afterword: Things We Learned
1. Stuff is really expensive here, but cheap for a city of this size and quality. We just have to deal with it. 1A. Apparently, economists are right about markets. People (i.e., Carrie and I) can be convinced that anything is worth anything. It just takes awhile and slowly one starts to think in terms …
Real Estate Part VIII: Denouemont
After the Mont-Royal disappointment, we continued looking. We began settling in for the long haul. After all, it was coming up on a year of looking and we hadn’t found the place of our dreams. On the first Sunday in June, Carrie was out of town but I saw a few promising places in the …
Real Estate Part VII: Bad Taste in Love
Cast back out into the forest, we went back to looking for unusual places. One popped up in the paper that seemed intriguing. On Mont-Royal Est, it was a couple blocks east of the heart of the Plateau, not far from the Mont-Royal Metro and located near lots of shops and services. There was even …
Real Estate Part VI: The Spring of Our Discontent
I’ve decided that it’s worth concluding this series in proper form even though it’s been awhile because at least 3 of this blog’s readers (which, for all I know, is a good portion of the readership) asked for it. To see where we left off in the story, have a look at Real Estate Part …
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Skipping Ahead to the Ending. . . .
People keep asking us if we found a place, and since we’re in the midst of moving, perhaps it’s time to flip the novel to the end before getting there the old fashioned way. YES, we found a place. The full story will have to wait, but it’s a floor of an old calendar factory …
Real Estate Part V: A Learning Experience
Note to readers who have tuned in with the program in progress: as I mentioned in my first entry for this series, my story is mostly in the past tense. In fact, we have purchased a place and are set to move in late August. The Verdun entry describes events from last August and September …
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