Mississauga luxury condominium for sale - $359,900
- 2 bedrooms
- 2 full baths
- 1665 square feet
- Spacious living and dining areas, separate family room or home office / den
- south exposure with views of Lake Ontario, Toronto Skyline & Toronto & Lakeview Golf Courses
- ensuite laundry
- lots of closet space
Condo Details:
TREB District: W12 Condo Address: 1400 Dixie Road, Mississauga Year Built: 1978 by Sanrose Construction Price: $359,900 Condo Size: 1665 sq.ft. Bedrooms: 2 Balcony: No Ensuite Laundry: Yes Parking: 2 spaces, underground, owned Pets: No* Property Taxes: $3032.43 (2009) Condo Fees: $898.24/month Condo Fee Includes: Water, Heat, Hydro, Basic Cable T.V., Building Insurance, Parking & Common Element Maintenance.
Building Amenities:
- 24 hr Security Gatehouse
- Outdoor Pool
- Saunas
- Tennis Court
- Fitness Rooms
- Billiards Lounge
- Woodworking Shop
- Ceramic & Art Studios
- Horticultural Centre
- Sports Lounge
- McMaster House (party room)
- Concierge Desk
Fairways is a luxury condominium building situated on almost 6 acres of mature, landscaped grounds. Set amidst 330 acres of golf courses there is not a bad view from any of its condo units. It is surrounded by the Lakeview Golf Course and across the road is the historic Toronto Golf Club. Located at 1400 Dixie Road, south of the QEW, Fairways Condominium offers excellent access to public transportation, shopping and is only 15 minutes to downtown Toronto. Other nearby amenities include: Dixie Outlet Mall, Port Credit Yacht Club and Lake Ontario.
To book a private viewing of this Mississauga condo, call Ryan today 905.507.0040 or book via email.
Ryan Chelak is a real estate broker in Oakville & Mississauga and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville & Mississauga real estate.
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With Benjamin Moore Natura paint, you have an environmentally friendly option when it comes to painting the interior of your home or condo, and you can count on the beauty and quality you expect from Benjamin Moore.
What is a VOC? VOCs are Volatile Organic Compounds – organic chemical compounds that have high enough vapor pressures under normal conditions to significantly vaporize and enter the earth’s atmosphere. Volatile organic compounds are numerous and varied. Although ubiquitous in nature and modern industrial society, they may also be harmful or toxic.
Bejamin Moore Natura paint is available from Speers Paint in Oakville on Speers Road. Check out their new product display and bring going green into your paint too. We’ve been buying paint for our homes and clients homes and condos from them for years and highly recommend their service – tell them Ryan sent you 
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Ryan Chelak is a real estate broker in Oakville & Mississauga and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
Residents fear repeat of fatal explosion at proposed power plant
Photo Source: Associated Press
An Oakville citizens’ group says the explosion at a 620-megawatt gas-fired power plant in Connecticut that killed five highlights the hazards of building a similar power station in their neighbourhood.
“It’s one of those things that confirms the possibilities of the dangers of having a plant in a residential community,” said Daniela Morawetz, president of the Chartwell-Maple Grove Residents Association, an Oakville ratepayers association of 1,600 homeowners located next door to the future site of Canada’s largest gas-fired power plant.
Read the entire article “U.S. power plant bast triggers fears in Oakville” by Patty Winsa for the Toronto Star (February 9, 2010)
The following You Tube video is from local news station WTNH:
Oakville residents – share you comments and thoughts on this tragedy and how it makes you feel regarding the proposed Oakville power plant.
The devastation in Haiti has inspired a group of Oakville residents to hold a fundraiser to rebuild a children’s hospital and honour the contributions to that country of Oakville doctor John Yates.
It will be held on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. at The Firehall, 2441 Lakeshore Rd. W. in Bronte. The fundraising event will feature Mississauga band Still Garage.
Yates departed Haiti hours before the earthquake hit on Jan. 12 and has since returned to help. This week, Yates, his wife, Sandy and their children, have been in Haiti.
Yates has learned Grace Children’s Hospital sustained severe structural damage and will have to be torn down and rebuilt. Upon hearing of the plight of the hospital, Oakville resident Krista Smith began planning a fundraiser.
“I feel it is important to recognize the wonderful work that Dr. Yates is doing in Haiti, and with the Canadian government matching donations dollar for dollar, I think we can make a valuable contribution to the rebuilding efforts,” said Smith.
Tickets to the fundraiser for Haiti cost $15 and are available by calling the Firehall at 905-827-4445. For more information on ICC or Yates’ efforts, visit www.internationalchildcare.org.
Every donation made to ICC Canada up to February 12th for the Haiti Earthquake will be matched one for one by the Canadian Government.
- Click here to read segments of Dr. Yates’ personal reflections on the devastation in Haiti.
- To view the W5 story on Dr. Yates entitled, “A doctor’s harrowing return to Haiti” please click here.
Read the entire article “Fundraiser to back Oakville doctor in Haiti” from InsideHalton.com (January 29, 2010)
(Source: Oakville Beaver )
A new bylaw aimed at making Oakville’s air easier to breathe has received unanimous approval from local politicians.
Under the new rules, Town councillors will have the right to reject incoming new industries judged to be major emitters of pollutants that cause unacceptable health impacts. The Town will also be able to deem existing industries and facilities that are major pollution emitters as “public nuisances” and refuse them approval to continue to operate unless they cut emissions.
However, the Town did modify the bylaw slightly as a result of a meeting last month that saw business representatives soundly criticize the proposal.
The approved bylaw will now require all facilities that emit fine particulate matter (airborne particles less than 2.5 microns in size), or other pollutants, which produce fine particulate matter, to make a one-time report of emission levels to the Town.
Existing facilities that agree to develop a five-year plan leading to a 25 per cent reduction in emissions will be given approval to continue to operate. Those that do not agree to a reduction plan will need to convince Town council that there is a public interest in allowing them to continue to operate despite their emissions.
Town staff estimate there are probably 10 or 15 facilities in town likely to be classified as major emitters.
Consultant Rodney Northey, an environmental law specialist hired to advise the Town, noted that those companies will already be collecting emissions data and dealing with approval processes.
“There should be no surprises to a major emitter because they are already reporting under NPRI,” he noted.
John Sawyer, president of Oakville Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber supports initiatives to improve air quality and air quality standards, but doesn’t believe the Town should be doing the regulation.
“We’re not in support of municipal regulation of the airshed,” he told councillors. “This type of regulation should be mandated by the province in a process that would affect all jurisdictions equally.”
Sawyer suggested the new bylaw will be expensive for businesses and ineffective in reducing air pollution. He is also afraid it will put Oakville companies at a competitive disadvantage, create an uncertain business climate and make it difficult to attract new companies to town.
“You want to catch a large tuna, but you’ll kill a lot of dolphins in the process,” he said, in what appeared to be an oblique reference to Town council’s ongoing battle to keep TransCanada’s proposed gas-fired power plant out of Oakville.
Fine particulate matter is currently regulated at the provincial level in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland, as well as in all American states.
“We can’t rest on our laurels with this because this is only one small tool in a very large toolbox to deal with our toxic airshed,” said Ward 5 councillor Jeff Knoll. “This is a much bigger problem than we can solve on our own.”
Read the full article “Oakville passes air quality bylaw” in the Oakville Beaver (February 2, 2010)
Ryan Chelak is a real estate broker in Oakville & Mississauga andlongtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
(Source: OakvilleToday.ca )
Through the months of December 2009 and January 2010, North Oakville Today published a survey which asked residents, ‘Do you support the Town giving Halton Healthcare $200,000,000 for the new Oakville Hospital?’
While the majority of responses were no, none of the responses indicated a new hospital should not be built. A simple analysis of this survey shows that the vast majority of Oakville residents want the new hospital. Most responses indicated concerns over plans, policy, tax increases and the politics behind the local share contribution. We urge readers to consider all opinions – those submitted by the community as well as those from our various leaders within this publication.
Here’s a brief overview of Oakville’s hospital saga:
In 1948, Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital opened with 50 beds on nine acres of land to serve Oakville’s then population of less than 20,000 residents. Since then, multiple expansions and upgrades were made to the existing hospital as the population of the Town of Oakville grew.
Finally, in 2003, the Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) released a report establishing the need for a new hospital in Oakville.
Discussions over funding, design and priorities were held in the following years, and in 2007, Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn announced his government’s decision to transfer a 50-acre plot of land at Third Line and Dundas Streets to Halton Healthcare Services (HHS) for the new hospital.
Not long after, HHS initiated a series of focus groups based on three tiers to establish priorities: community, staff and patient. The three common requests revolved around more single-bed patient rooms, calming environment throughout the hospital and more support and space for visiting families.
Due to a decision at the provincial level, the original plans for development and construction of the new hospital were delayed. The availability of qualified construction, labour and technical personnel was called into question and the original opening date of 2013 was bumped back by one year.
Later, this decision was reversed and the plans to conceptualize, finance and build the hospital were sped up. It was in late 2009, however, after HHS had released its initial conceptualizations and designs, that financing became a hot topic.
With the province footing the bill for approximately 70 per cent of the overall costs, it left 30 per cent for what is known as the Locale Contribution to fill. That includes 100 per cent of non-eligible construction costs (retail space, parking and other revenue-generating spaces), 10 per cent of eligible construction, 10 per cent of building equipment and life-cycle maintenance (boilers, chillers, HVAC systems and 30-year maintenance of the facility) and 100 per cent of clinical equipment.
Halton Healthcare has already dedicated $270,000,000 to the project and the Hospital Foundation has pledged $60,000,000. At an Council Meeting of the Whole, HHS presented their plans and asked for the donation of $200,000,000 from the Town, to be paid over 30 years. A report prepared by Town staff suggested that, based on interest rates, current debt policy and affordability, the most the Town could offer was $140,000,000. It was also suggested that HHS turn over the old OTMH lands to the Town as part of this deal.
However, Council voted to hold extensive public consultations prior to making a final decision, which will affect taxpayers for the next 30 years. The results of this are expected in March of this year.
What are your thoughts about the proposed new hospital for Oakville?
How do you answer the $200,000,000 question?
Ryan Chelak is a real estate broker in Oakville & Mississauga and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
GTA REALTORS® REPORT JANUARY RESALE HOUSING MARKET FIGURES
(Source: Toronto Real Estate Board )
TORONTO, February 3, 2010 — Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 4,986 real estate transactions through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS®) in January 2010. This result represented a large increase over the 2,670 sales in January 2009 when the home sales were in a recessionary trough. Last month’s sales were slightly higher than the January average in the five years preceding 2009.
“The GTA housing market has rebounded well from the lows in sales experienced at the beginning of 2009. Sales climbed back to healthy levels across the GTA because the cost of home ownership remained affordable in the Toronto area,” said TREB President Tom Lebour.
“Increasingly confident consumers moved to take advantage of affordable home ownership.” The average home selling price in January 2010 climbed 19% to $409,058, compared to 343,632 in the same month last year.
“Expect strong annual growth rates for existing home (and condo)sales and average price through the first quarter as we continue to make comparisons to the weak market conditions at the beginning of 2009,” said Jason Mercer, TREB’s Senior Manager of Market Analysis. “The rate of sales and price growth will be lower in the second half of 2010.”
My commentary: This week there’ve been a number of blog posts and news articles touting the percantage of increase of both the average home prices and percentage of increase in number of sales between January 2010 and Jaunary 2009. In this case, ‘just the facts’ isn’t the best policy. Everything must be taken in context and we need to look at the bigger picture.
The realities are this:
- January 2009 was a real estate wasteland – I know, I had to sell a number of properties in January and February of last year and also find homes and condos for my clients who were looking to take advantage of the reduced home values. The landscape was dismal this time last year – the US housing crash was compounding and people were slashing asking prices and taking their homes off the market left and right.
- In January 2010 we’re building off a very stong second half of 2009, consumer confidence in the economy is increasing or at the very least showing signs of hope. Interest rates and mortgage rates are at historic lows for now and people, in particular first-time home buyers, are taking advantage of the situation before a) mortgage rates increase – they have nowhere to go but up; b) the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)kicks in July 1, 2010. This will certainly have a direct impact on new homes and new condos, but will also have an effect on costs associated with re-sale homes and condos.\
My bottom line? If you’re thinking of selling your home or condo in Oakville, Mississauga or the GTA. Call or email me yesterday and let’s discuss your particular situation asap. With listing inventories at lows right now, your home or condo will be in much greater demand now than come April or May of this year.
Related Reading: “Existing home sales soar 87% in ‘crazy’ January” from The Toronto Star (February 4, 2010)
Ryan Chelak is a real estate broker in Oakville & Mississauga and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
Get active this Family Day! On Monday, February 16, the Town of Oakville will recognize the Family Day holiday by offering a variety of programming and special events at Town-owned community centres and arenas.
(Source: Oakville.ca)
- Photo Source: Oakville.ca
“Residents are invited to bring along friends and family to celebrate Oakville’s Family Fun Day,” said Nina de Vaal, Director of Recreation and Culture for the Town of Oakville. “Our Family Fun Day encourages families to ‘Make their Move’ by enjoying the many benefits of leading an active and healthy lifestyle. Statistics show that if parents model good behavior when it comes to exercise, children will follow.”
Additional highlights of the Family Fun Day include: sledge hockey, speed skating, mini-golf, face painting, prizes and, a chance to skate with the Oakville Blades, as well as a few surprise visitors!
Locations include:
- River Oaks Community Centre
- Glen Abbey Community Centre
- Iroquois Ridge Community Centre
- Joshua’s Creek Arenas
- Kinoak Arena
- Oakville Arena
- Maple Grove Arena
Admission is free to all organized Family Day events except recreation swimming and skating ($3.25/person), however all visitors will receive a free swim/skate pass for future use. For more information about the activities, times and locations, please visit the Make Your Move Family Day Activities page.
Panago Pizza will be selling $1 pizza slices at each community centre from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The money raised from the pizza sales will be donated to the Town’s Recreation Connection Fund that assists families in need and provides them with the opportunity to participate in Town recreational programming, as well as the Canadian Tire Jump Start Fund, a community-based charitable program that helps kids in financial need take part in organized sport and recreation. For details, visit the Panago Pizza website.
With the exception of community centres, arenas, and the Glen Abbey and Iroquois Ridge library branches, Town Hall, and all other library branches and town-owned facilities will remain closed for the Family Day statutory holiday.
Emergency services will remain operational.
Make Your Move is part of Active 2010, the Province’s plan to increase awareness of the benefits of regular daily activity. The Town of Oakville promotes the benefits of an active and healthy lifestyle through participation, education and community outreach programs. For more information visit the Make Your Move website.
Ryan Chelak is a real estate broker in Oakville and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
“Can I take your order please” is heard over the tinny, garbled speaker.
“Yes, can I have a coffee with milk please??” I call back at the speaker covered with graffiti and promo stickers.
“Is that everything?” the voice in the speaker asks me.
“Yes, thank you” I reply.
“Please drive up” So I do, waiting, coins in hand for a nice hot coffee with milk.
I hand my change to the drive thru window attendant, take my coffee in hand and drive off to meet with my new client looking for a condo in Mississauaga.
As I’m driving along the qew in Oakville I take a sip of my coffee and this sickly sweet taste hits me by surprise – my coffee with milk has been ambushed by cream and sugar! Blech!!
So I ask you, “How hard is it??!”
No really, is it too much to expect that you should get what you ask for today?
Is customer service only about speed and efficiency? Moving as many people through as fast as possible.
Now, for those of you about to bash me for frequenting a drive thru or buying a coffee from a national brand… don’t miss the point. The point is that somewhere along the road here we as consumers decided that we’d accept sub-par customer service. It’s not ok and eventually not giving the client what they are asking for will bite you in the ass.
Why am I taking this so personally? Some might say I’m overreacting, it’s only a cup of coffee. I am a service provider. As a real estate broker I help people buy and sell their homes and condos, providing information, knowledge and experience from my 12 years helping people with their real estate needs.
I decided long ago that I would be a full-service Realtor and go the extra mile for my clients. I don’t look at people as a commission or a transaction. I want people to ask me for my advice or opinion on any question they have whether it’s about a neighbourhood in Oakville, a recommendation for a real estate lawyer or whether they should do some improvements to their condo before they list it for sale.
My mission statement is: “to build lasting personal relationships with each and every client and exceed their expectations through every step of their journey in real estate ownership”.
Now, my boutique service approach to real estate doesn’t suit everyone’s needs and I’m ok with that. I can’t be everything to everyone, no one can. Regardless, I always make sure that if I don’t have the answer to a question I’m asked, I find out. I spend countless hours reading and educating myself on the goings on in Oakville, Burlington and Mississauga. I research and watch for trends in the market and am always looking for opportunities to better my clients.
Bottom line? It is not too much to ask for quality customer service and I will never give you cream and sugar in your coffee if you only want milk!
Ok, I’ve said my piece… share your comments and thoughts on customer service!
Ryan Chelak is a real estate agent in Oakville and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
Source: Toronto Star
The above picture is courtesy of the TheStar.com and shows the median prices in November and percentange change over the last two years for each real estate district in the Greater Toronto Area. For my Oakville readers, the above picture shows the stats for Oakville home prices.
The map shows the November median real estate prices for 2007, 2008 and 2009 and coding them by colour depending on the percentage of change. Just to be clear, this is not showing the average or mean prices of real estate, but median or middle values. Many statisticians believe that the median value is better suited and less biased or influenced by ‘radical values’.
As you can see, Oakville, Milton and some areas of Mississauga had particularly have experienced above average gains in median prices. Now, keep in mind that this covers all types of real estate properties; detached homes, townhouses, condos – the works.
I thought I would show some further detail from the November 2009 stats for Oakville, for clarity:
November: 2009
Sales Avg. Price Median Price Avg. Days on Market Avg. % of List Price
144 $646,574 $449,000 31 days 98%
Now we’ll look just at the detached homes in Oakville that were sold in November 2009:
Sales Avg. Price Median Price Avg. % of List Price
89 $814,125 $555,000 98%
Now the same for the condo apartments in Oakville :
Sales Avg. Price Median Price Avg. % of List Price
16 $470,218 $250,000 98%
Now the condo townhouses in Oakville:
Sales Avg. Price Median Price Avg. % of List Price
12 $280,300 $268,500 98%
And finally freehold townhouses in Oakville:
Sales Avg. Price Median Price Avg. % of List Price
20 $355,820 $336,750 99%
Wondering how the current real estate market conditions have affected your home’s value?
Thinking of buying or selling a home, townhouse or condo in Oakville or Mississauga? Give me a shout, I’d be happy to sit down with you to discuss your personal situation.
Ryan Chelak is a real estate agent in Oakville and longtime Oakville resident. Subscribe to my blog to keep up to date on local news, information, events and of course everything you want to know about Oakville real estate.
