Harbourview Estates and Antares on the Waterfront

Harbourfront and Harbourview Estates

Harbourview Estates and Antares Yacht

A quick photo that I took from this weekend when the motoryacht Antares Westport 130 was in town. I did a search on the internet and found it had been sailing along on the Great Lakes for the past few months. Seems that everywhere this yacht goes it seems to cause a commotion. Everywhere that is, except in Toronto. "Nothing to see here, move along."

In the background we also see Queens Quay which made news this week, with government officials touting the new investment to make it into a grand boulevard of Toronto.  Also seen at the left is one of the first towers of the Cityplace Development, called Harbourview Estates 3. The shortest, but arguably the best architecturally of the three Harbourview Estates towers. It is my personal favorite. And makes for a striking silloette on the Toronto skyline. 

I'll be doing a retrospective this week, on some of the completed towers of the Toronto construction boom. So many towers get completed in Toronto every month, it's easy to loose track, but what they add in terms of improved city amenities and the public realm is incalculable. Better sidewalks, streetscaping, and parks, pretty hard to ignore.

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Getting a Mortgage and Mortgage Insurance through Aviva Canada for financing a loan to purchase at FIVE Condos is actually a relatively easy process, and new rules from the federal government has required that company include new regulations, which have made the home loan and mortgage process a bit more difficult. Those changes at Aviva Canada include shortening the amortization period for which the loan can be held by the consumer, and the degree to which the property is financed by the mortgage. They have also increased deposit requirements to lift the loan insurance amount. Mortgage insurance from Aviva Canada is actually one of the major financing costs on home loans.