Our team in the News: McGill Immobilier and the Montreal Condo Market

Échos Montréal, Old Montreal local paper, issued an article last month about new construction condos and the McGill Real Estate Team. The article discusses the Condo market in Montreal, and the facts that makes the condo market still a favorable choice for buyers.

If you don’t know about McGill Immobilier, we are a boutique agency that specializes in Marketing and Selling New Condo Projects. The first one of its kind in Montreal.

You can find a copy of the article in here. It’s written in French.

We had also a group shot that came out fabulous! Although not all of the agents were present, in this picture you can get to know then team a little.? The names are given at the bottom of the image. And they misspelled mine.

Can you guess where I am in the picture?

Good-Bye Sleb, here comes Lofts des Arts

If you’ve been reading the blog long enough, you’d probably remember the article about Sleb and the scandal with the developer back then, the money being owed to the people who purchased and the legal battle between the promoter (Minco), creditors (Dalle Nogare) and the buyers.

The news were released last year, the Sleb project was finally settled and taken from Minco by the Dalle Nogare family. The buyers who lost money on the initial investment were reimbursed and a new project was born: Lofts des Arts.

There are 102 industrial style condos, from 818 to 1650 sq ft, with 10 foot ceilings and hardwood floors. The asking price starts at $250,000. There’s no model unit to see, because (according to the sales rep) “every unit is different and unique”.

Wishing best of luck with the new project and I’m happy to hear the buyers from Sleb got their money back. Will they return to the new project? My friend who bought there decided not to take a chance with the new developer. Maybe others will be more adventurous.

Karl Fischer: Celebrity Architect in Montreal and NYC.

There’s absolutely no doubt that Karl Fischer’s work is smoking hot. His creations have been growing by the day in Montreal and New York City, with many other projects to come.
He’s been published in the New York Times and the Montreal Gazette. You can see some of his buildings in our city. Luxury condos in Old Montreal: and Le Themis. Also, the upcoming Le quartier parisien. Not to mention countless of projects completed in New York City.

Now, you may wonder: Who is this Karl Fischer guy? And why should I care?
The reason we are mentioning him here, apart from the fact that he is a great architect, is because he is also a Montrealer; graduated from McGill University. The same McGill in downtown Montreal. In fact, he runs his business in Canada out of a location in Old Montreal.

So we’ve seen some of his projects here, read about his accomplishments, but we’ve never gotten a look of what the person really is, what is behind his success. Up until a well-established real estate online publication posted an article about him.

In the article called: Inside the home of Karl Fischer, The Real Deal described Fischer as;

“Fischer has designed about two dozen buildings, including luxury condos, but there is nothing about the décor of his seventh-floor penthouse residence that would earn it a photo spread in Architectural Digest. Despite his success, Fischer said he feels uncomfortable with luxury, and the décor of his apartment echoes this sentiment. The 900-square-foot pied-à-terre (Fischer has a home in his native Montreal, as well as one in Vermont) is functional with no wasted space.”

“I don’t feel comfortable with luxurious things; it is just my nature,” said Fischer, a compact man of 59 with a salt-and-pepper beard and moustache. “I just like basic stuff.

“I have a standard Volkswagen; I don’t have to get a BMW,” he said.

There are countless of articles on Karl’s projects at Curbed.com, a New York based real estate blog. They have been following closely the progress of his developments for the last year and a half.
But, when Robert at curbed.com mentions: “That’s our Karl”. We would have to correct him. “No, no. That’s our Karl”

More on Karl Fischer at Curbed:

• Karl Fischer Stands Erect on Union Ave.
• Checking In on the Burg’s Luminous Condo Corner
• Greenpoint to Get Another Big Karl Fischer

More on Karl’s Montreal developments, coming soon – right here.
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