Our project, The Residences of The Hotel McGibbon has captured a silver award for Best Presentation Centre in the National Sales and Marketing Council’s (USA) annual awards event.
Read MoreThe Government Taketh While The Market Giveth Did you know that 30% of households with children in Toronto live in condos? Downtown, the statistic jumps to 66%. According to Tess Kalinowski, a real estate reporter with the Toronto Star, “the number of families with children and teens living in highrise buildings grew by 10,000 or… Read more
Set to go into effect January 1, 2018, the new rules require borrowers to pass a “stress test” on their mortgages Simply put, borrowers are going to have to be able to afford the monthly payments if interest rates were 2 percent higher. “The main effect will be felt by first-time buyers,” says James Laird,… Read more
Back in 1998, two young designers (Susan McIntee and Nick Monteleone) partnered together to create 52 Pick-up, working out of Susan’s house. Their first major assignment was the design of a logo for Hockey Night In Canada for Soho Post & Graphics/CBC. Talk about a feather in their caps! The logo, representing one of Canada’s… Read more
The cooler the weather the hotter the market! In the last month several of our newly designed websites have gone live. Check them out! Sierra’s The Chaplin Andrea Kantelberg Milborne Bremont Homes In other news, the team at 52 has been working on several new projects including Two Tecumseh and The Keeley for TAS, Pinnacle’s… Read more
In the battle for the real estate dollar, condo apartments and stacked townhomes are winning. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board and BILD, high-rise and mid-rise apartments and stacked townhouses represented 86 per cent of new-construction home sales in the GTA in May, as the cost of a new townhouse crossed the $1 million… Read more
52 Pick-up has created an awesome website for our client ModBox for their Marché St. Charles Market project in Ottawa. The challenge to create a site that reflects the incredible juxtaposition of old and new, historical and contemporary, then and now—represented by the project, has been met and surpassed! Our designers took great efforts to… Read more
