When to leave home-improvement projects to the experts
 

Eager to save money, homeowners are more willing to get their hands dirty with home-improvement projects these days. But the DIY route isn't always the safest or cheapest.

Solar panel startup to lease residential rooftops
 
A Toronto startup has come up with a way to put solar power systems on the rooftops of new homes at no cost to the owners. In fact, the homeowner would get paid to let it happen. more

Simple ways to transform your home for spring
 

On the leafy street where I grew up, spring brought blazing forsythia and a canopy of fresh green blooms. But for me, the season never truly arrived until the afternoon I would come home from school to find our apartment transformed.

ROBIN'S NEST: Putting his heart in a new home
 

Moving, getting married, divorced, giving birth or a grown child leaving the nest are all big life changes that can be daunting. With a generally positive inner voice, the change provides an opportunity to redefine a sense of self and place.

Website caters to retiring boomers' real estate search
 
Ten years ago, Bryan Mills retired from his Toronto marketing agency, bought a home in an adult lifestyle community and got busy with weekly card games, dances and a whirling clubhouse social life that might exhaust a man 20 years his junior. more