This is a dangerous subject, given inevitable disagreements and offenses that will be taken.

However, the editor keeps asking!!!!

Yorkville

Personally I have never felt comfortable with Yorkville values. If you want to live there, and can afford it, that’s one thing, but as an investment the numbers just don’t make any sense to me.

Etobicoke waterfront

The Etobicoke waterfront mystifies me. Some of the buildings (Palace Pier, Palace Place, Grand Harbour) are very well done, but it’s just a bit too isolated for my comfort.

If you want to live in a condo, you might as well pay the premium (or sacrifice the footage) and live right downtown where you can walk everywhere and avoid the traffic.

Parkdale

Parkdale (deepest heart of…) is perpetually “on the verge” of being discovered as the next ‘cool’ district; however I fear the local demographics are just too irreparably extreme for general comfort.

Harry Stinson was one of the first Toronto developers to recognize the potential for urban condominiums, to develop residential lofts, and to convert old office and warehouse buildings into residential spaces. His current project is the Stinson School Lofts, an 1894 heritage building in Hamilton, Ont., that he is converting into stylish and affordable lofts.