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John in Condos

Thedonald2_4 Donald Trump will be in Toronto on Friday October 12th for Toronto_trump_tower_large_2the official ground breaking of Trump Tower at the corner of Bay and Adelaide. Canadian billionaire, and the money behind this project, Alex Shnaider will also be on site.

This project has had its fair share of hurdles. After a failed partnership with the Ritz Carleton hotel group, the project re-launched in 2004. Despite a highly publicized battle with Harry Stinson's now defunct Sapphire Tower for the title of tallest residential condo in Canada, sales for Trump Tower never really picked up. In July of this year, the developers announced that they would be cutting their condo down in size to 57 floors from the 70 they originally planned to build.

I am sure this ground breaking will come as a bit of a surprise to the many real estate pundits who doubted the project would ever start construction.

John is a sales associate at Prudential Properties Plus in Toronto and a founder of Realosophy. Email John

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John Pasalis
John Pasalis
John Pasalis is President of Realosophy Realty, a Toronto real estate brokerage which uses data analysis to advise residential real estate buyers, sellers and investors. A specialist in real estate data analysis, John's research focuses on unlocking micro trends in the Greater Toronto Area real estate market. His research has been shared with the IMF and cited by the Bank of Canada and CMHC. A frequent commentator on the Toronto housing market and real estate consumer and industry issues, John has contributed to the Globe and Mail, CBC, BNN Bloomberg, TVO's The Agenda, Toronto Star and other media, national and international government and industry organizations. John holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Toronto and is a candidate in the Doctorate of Business Administration Program at the University of Toronto and Henley Business School (UK).
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