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Builder eQ Homes has been piling up the accolades this fall. Fresh off big wins at the Housing Design Awards in October, where the company was named production builder of the year and its Greystone Village development won for best planned new community, eQ has now scooped up the most trophies at the Greater Ottawa […]

eQ’s SAM awards sweep included best town home model for The Atticus. Multiple wins for its marketing and model home strategies mean a SAMs sweep for eQ Homes this year. The builder captured seven trophies at the sales and marketing (SAM) event organized by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association (GOHBA). eQ also took the […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Regional Group Receives Best Ottawa Business Award for Best Performance – Sustainability November 19, 2018, (Ottawa, Ontario) — Today, Regional Group was awarded the Best Ottawa Business Award (The BOBS) for Best Performance in the Sustainability Category. The BOBS recognize the most successful and innovative companies and business leaders who are driving […]

The residential real estate markets in Toronto and Vancouver can only be described as surreal. The homebuyers just keep coming, regardless of price. We’ve had the debate in recent years about whether inflationary pressures have been sparked by foreign buyers looking to park or launder money, or take advantage of provincial immigration programs. But the […]

Now that we have had time to detox from the NAFTA 2.0 political spin over Thanksgiving, it’s time to consider what it really means for real estate. (Disclosure: I just can’t bring myself to call this new deal by its acronym without suffering the terrifying image of POTUS in costume dancing to the Village People’s […]

It was refreshing to see politicians at all levels and of all leanings park the partisanship and come together after a series of tornadoes struck the Ottawa-Gatineau region. If only it didn’t take the immediacy of a natural disaster to get them on the same page without the bombast and nonsense. Because another storm is […]

November 8, 2018/by BrownieAwards Celebrating the rehabilitation and reuse of brownfield properties across Canada. November 8, 2018, TORONTO, ON – The Canadian Brownfields Network (CBN) and Actual Media Inc. are pleased to announce the finalists for the 18th annual Brownie Awards. A landmark national event for anyone involved in the renewal and revitalization of derelict properties, the Brownie Awards will take […]

Greystone Village’s River Terraces Ground Breaking on Oct 3, 2017. From left to right: David Kardish, Josh Kardish, Mayor Jim Watson.   I vividly remember the Greystone Village Grand Opening, way back in September of 2015.  It was an eagerly anticipated event — a “plum” parcel of historic Ottawa was going to change shape. What exactly […]