Homes
Distinctive places to live
Properties with memorable architecture, useful layouts, unique lots or lifestyle features.
Explore current listingsDistinctive real estate opportunities
Friday Fun Find
A recurring look at interesting homes, investment opportunities and standout property features across Burlington, Hamilton, Niagara and nearby Ontario markets.
A permanent home for every find.
Friday Fun Find highlights properties and ideas worth a closer look. Going forward, each feature can live here as its own searchable page instead of disappearing inside a social feed.
Archive note: The earlier version of this page displayed a third-party social feed. Those individual entries were not stored as crawlable pages on the old website. New features will be published here permanently, and earlier finds will be restored when their original details can be verified.
What you’ll find here
Interesting for a reason.
A Friday Fun Find may stand out for design, location, income potential, renovation possibilities or simply because it offers something uncommon.
Investing
Opportunities worth analyzing
Properties that raise useful questions about income, carrying costs, long-term value and strategy.
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Burlington, Hamilton and beyond
Finds from the communities James serves, with context that helps explain why each one is notable.
Tell James what you’re looking forFrom James’s archive
Recovered articles
These original posts were recovered from the previous website and preserved with their historical publication context.
November 2024
Zooming out on real estate investing
A historical perspective on analyzing investment real estate over a longer time horizon.
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November 2023
Exciting news from November 2023
A personal and business update originally published on the previous website.
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September 2023
Summer Ending
A late-summer update with historical interest-rate and Ontario real estate commentary.
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