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The Chase: How two lawyers found their $1.5-million starter home—after a year of searching
They wanted more space for their dog and a bigger kitchen for entertaining
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How a frumpy Thornhill home became an indoor garden
Their favourite plants are named after characters from
Friends
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This minimalist Japanese semi in Bloorcourt has its own yoga wall
The Sakamoto family spent 10 months remaking their Dufferin Grove home
Real Estate
This North York mansion’s underground pool has an artificial sky
Complete with twinkling fibre optic stars
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This Rosedale mansion’s indoor swimming haven has treetop views
A ravine setting makes the perfect backdrop for a basement pool
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This candy magnate’s indoor pool has its own miniature waterfall
Take a look at an Italy-inspired indoor swimming grotto
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Take a look inside a Bridle Path mansion’s indoor pool room
It had a cameo in an Aaron Sorkin movie
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The Chase: A Leslieville couple sets their sights uptown
A $2-million home search gets a boost from free babysitting
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How an architect turned a private island in Georgian Bay into a modernist family retreat
See inside an airy cottage that blends perfectly with its natural surroundings
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The Chase: This couple sold their Little Italy home for a small fortune and are living mortgage-free
They ended up in a bigger house than they started in
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How a family with a plastic surgery business discovered the joys of living above the shop
The best part: a five-second commute to the office
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The Chase: A divorced dad searches high and low for a kid-friendly home
He’s bracing for years of careful budgeting
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The Chase: How a couple found a roomier family home, without professional help
The only thing that wasn’t negotiable was location
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How a family found house hunting serenity by selling off their old property first
They wanted a place in the same neighbourhood, but on a quieter street
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How a family of four found their happy place in Scarborough
A hunt for a wheelchair-friendly home in the suburbs
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The Chase: A 24-year-old lifelong North Yorker looks for a downtown pad
A suburban, university-aged Airbnb landlord sets his sights on the core
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The Chase: Fed up with his housemate’s chinchilla, he went looking for a bachelor pad
A 28-year-old software developer strikes out on his own
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The Chase: They spent $1.35 million on a house they’d never seen in person
Sometimes a FaceTime tour is the best you can do
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The Chase: A rent-hike refugee heads west in search of a condo to share
Facing a $200-per-month increase, he decided to find a housemate
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The Chase: She wasn’t planning on buying a house—until she did
A whirlwind one-day home search ends in an unexpected purchase
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The Chase: A Dubai couple look for an income property on the other side of the globe
A pair of expat investors scour the city for a house with character
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The Chase: A couple ditches their housemate and goes in search of a sub-$2,000 rental condo
Striking out on their own meant doubling their rent
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The Chase: To find a four-bedroom home, they left midtown for Scarborough
A family heads east in search of more living space
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The Chase: A holistic nutritionist plots her escape from Liberty Village
Her housemates gone, she wanted out of condoland
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The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
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Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
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House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
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House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
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House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
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House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room
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Surreal Estate: $6 million for a Rosedale Victorian with a bath fit for a temple
What property off Sherbourne would be complete without a floating fireplace, a 14-foot butcher block, smart-home tech and a deck built around a tree?