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An elegant marble bowl of Hot Tamales on the stately conference room table at the Regional Group’s headquarters is an apt metaphor for this Ottawa real estate powerhouse – grounded in tradition but with a little spice. This juxtaposition illustrates how Regional defines customer service, which is at the core of what this full-service company […]

The choice keeps growing off Bank Street south of Leitrim Road as Richcraft becomes the ninth builder to launch sales in this popular south-end area. Reuniting with fellow builders eQ Homes and Phoenix Homes, who launched in September, the trio presents Pathways at Findlay Creek. In some ways, it’s an extension of the Findlay Creek […]

If you own real estate — or want to — you need a real estate expert at your side, guiding, advising, managing and investing to ensure you maximize the returns on that investment. Your expert is Regional Group. Steeped in tradition, with 60 years of experience in all facets of the industry and recognized as […]

Earlier in the year, I wrote a piece about the draw of the urban core for the kinds of businesses which traditionally flocked to suburban business parks, but what about that big swath of real estate in the middle? It recently made headlines in Ottawa when venerable satellite firm Telesat announced it would give up its home […]

What will a future with autonomous vehicles on the road really look like? I think they nailed it quite well way back in 1990 in one of Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi flicks, Total Recall. Most urban dwellers take some form of mass transit. The next option is a robo-taxi service called Johnny Cab. Actual individual automobiles with intelligent […]

In a RENX.ca column a couple of years ago, I asked the question “are we at risk of becoming tenants in our own country?” Some would have us think so, at least in overheated urban markets like Toronto and Vancouver, but I still find more questions than answers whenever I dive into this increasingly complicated […]

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 […]