It seems like there's almost as many news sources as news consumers
I wouldn't go that far. There are a lot of sources out there, and you just need to narrow down what type of news you are interested in finding our more about. Then bookmark your favorite 8 or 10 sources, and check them for 20 minutes daily....
From my research there are eight main types of online site for "news":
(i) Amalgamations of news stories: these provide short snippets of news stories, which link to the actual articles. They can be called blogs or dailies. That is what my blog does, (
here), it also contains some original content (maybe 20% such as "development updates" and "construction updates", "eBlast updates" and general opinion pieces). I first started it for fun, because being in land-development, I was spending countless hours per week tracking what was going on, and thought it would be a great tool for others to use.
(ii) Amalgamations of interesting stories, related to design and architecture (check
here.)
(iii) Search engines, such as Google News, which you can type in any variable of key-words to find the most relevant news from the sources that it scrapes. This is an excellent source of news if you have the time. Check
here.
(iv) Agent blogs, with great news directly from developers, and interesting thoughts on the state of the market and what is selling.
(v) Agent sites that simply regurgitate marketing material from developments and advertorials from CondoGuide (and other such advertisement-magazines), in an attempt to trick potential purchasers to contacting them for more information on that specific development (for example, type in ANY development name into Google, and see the agents that come up... check it
here). I find these lame, and contain mainly outdated information.
(vi) Forums, such as Urban Toronto, which contain a great wealth of insight into projects. This is mainly opinion based, but also contains links to news stories which people discuss.
(vii) Social media sites, which bring the "news" to you. For example, check Twitter's search tool, and type "real-estate filter:links... click
here)
(viii) The actual newspaper sites (no further comments needed here)
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