It’s been a busy sales season so far for Lou Grossi and his team at Intercity Realty. That’s nothing new, mind you.
“The last 10 years have been busy,” the company’s owner tells Epoch Times in an interview at its Woodbridge head office. “But it’s been very busy this year.”
Intercity, winner in the Professional Services category at the 2015 Vaughan Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Awards, boasts a roster of 170 agents focused on residential resale and new-home sales (high-rise and low-rise) as well as commercial real estate. In business nearly 45 years, the firm enjoys close relationships with top GTA builders that marketing director Alda Neves Dubé says “we’ve worked hard to develop.”
Intercity has two offices (the second one is in Concord) and will soon be opening a third, in downtown Markham, where Intercity is overseeing sales for the Remington Group’s massive townhouse development.
With strong and steady immigration flow into the GTA creating demand for real estate, Neves Dubé notes Intercity’s been seeing a “nice mix of investor and end users” out in the market searching for properties, low-rise especially. “It’s seen as a safer investment; the return is quicker and the build is quicker.”
Those looking for low-rise may want to check out Kleinburg Crown Estates. A development by three builders (Caliber Homes, Sky Homes, and Monarch Group/Mattamy Homes), the community features only detached homes on 42-, 50-, 60-, and 70-foot lots. Intercity just launched the project’s second phase of three, about 100 homes priced from $889,990 (with a summer promotion of $60,000 in free upgrades).
The homes have 10-foot ceilings on the main level and nine-foot ceilings on the second floor (and in the basement, depending on the plan), the “most modern elevations you'll see in Vaughan,” says Grossi, noting the facades integrate stone, brick, and pre-cast concrete elements. “These border on custom homes.”
