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christiesplits
Senior Member
Oh thank god for a second I thought these monstrosities were being built in Toronto's Riverside.
cruzin4u
Senior Member
Ahhh, the evolving "luxury" town home or rather any new town home development (as they call them now, "city towns") - stacked town homes with tiny entrance ways, tiny rooms and 3-4 levels of poor use of space. But of course there will be buyers of such garbage.
Edward
Senior Member
May not look good but they serve a need. Not everyone can buy a house so they need to do.
cruzin4u
Senior Member
These start at $800,000 so I am sure those purchasing said units can afford a house. I was mostly suggesting how many of these floor plans for newer town homes have much smaller spaces than older town homes and that a good amount of them lack a sense of community because they are so stacked side-by-side. Often times these town homes don't even have a backyard and hardly any front yard (front yards fronting on to a busy sidewalk or main street are horrendous in my opinion). I also can't stand the garages in the back of these supposed "town home" developments. I guess I am just nitpicking and would like to see a return to the old way of building town homes, but I understand that will never happen.
EMP1729
Active Member
These aren't traditional town homes. They are live/work units. Commercial office space is included. The idea is that a business owner (lawyer, accountant, or whatever) would live upstairs and have their office downstairs.
So, having these units fronting a busy street would be ideal.
blahblahblah
Active Member
I wonder if they are selling. I can't imagine there would much of a market for that. Wouldn't you rather just have a nice office in your home if you were so inclined? I guess if you need to meet people at your office but just wonder how many business owners this will make sense to.
EMP1729
Active Member
I would guess some people would be buying these units and leasing both units out or converting the office space to a rental apartments. It is a niche market though.
Personally, If I were meeting with clients/customers I wouldn't want them to enter my home or know exactly where I live. I would prefer to keep private life and professional life separate. As well, I wouldn't want to live over commercial space either. Home insurance would be much higher among other things.
