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Where to Buy Now: the inside scoop on the city’s next 10 neighbourhoods

By Monika Warzecha

| January 17, 2012

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By Monika Warzecha | Illustrations by Jack Dylan | Photography by Emma McIntyre

In a relentlessly hot market, buyers are starved for great housing stock, prices that mortals can afford, walkable blocks with great restaurants and green spaces, plus neighbours who might actually talk to you. Sure, it’s an impossible dream. Unless you’re looking here: the inside scoop on 10 amazing pockets with value and character to burn.

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