Following within the footsteps of famed actuality TV actual property exhibits, like Million Greenback Itemizing, Promoting Sundown and Shopping for Beverly Hills, Toronto has entered the style with Luxe Listings Toronto (now on Prime Video). The present, starring Peter Torkan, Paige Torkan and Brett Starke, takes us inside luxurious properties, starting from condos in downtown Toronto, to homes within the metropolis’s Bridal Path neighbourhood and in Oakville, Ont.
“We did not want to become famous, our intention was to showcase Toronto to the world, the real estate, how beautiful this city is,” Peter instructed Yahoo Canada. “How can we serve other people in our team? How can we elevate them? How can we help them to take their business to the next level? So it wasn’t about us whatsoever.”
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“We wanted to give back by being role models, if possible, because we started from zero,” Paige added. “We wanted to show to the world that it’s possible for the younger generation and they can start from anywhere they want and be whoever they want to be in life.”
The Torkans are a husband-wife duo making up Crew Torkan at The Company in Toronto (followers of actuality exhibits shall be aware of The Company from its founder Mauricio Umansky, from The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills and Shopping for Beverly Hills). Starke, then again, leads The Starke Group and is dubbed the “King of King Street.”
‘The most effective wanting folks in Canada, dwell in Toronto’
Whereas a lot of the collection is about seeing the multimillion-dollar properties, it is also a glimpse into the non-public lives of those actual property professionals. For Starke, that features displaying a spat he had together with his brother, Scott, who’s additionally a part of The Starke Group crew, after an error led to the lack of a list.
“I find that, especially in Canada and especially in real estate, there’s so much small business, there’s so much family business, and a lot of people are going to work with their best friends, or their family members, or their loved ones,” Starke mentioned. “And the same scenarios that you get into on a management versus employee situation, you’re going to get in those situations with your family as well.”
“It’s going to be amplified because now that there’s money involved. There’s other people’s homes, there’s expectations. So I think what we really showcase [is] there’s always going to be challenges every single day. … One of the things we say at our company and my team hears me say this all the time is, ‘The only easy day was yesterday.’ So there’s going to be another challenge tomorrow, it’s going to be a harder challenge than the one you had yesterday. How are you going to adapt with those challenges? How are you going to overcome through those challenges? And if you can do it with your family, even better.”
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Starke additionally says one thing within the present that’s fairly uncommon for folks in Toronto, that he “loves” courting in metropolis. Within the present, we see him go on a date that begins with a helicopter trip to Niagara, Ont.
“I think Toronto pulls the best of what Canada has to offer, that can be culturally, that can be financially, that can be health, that can be looks, that could be your entrepreneurship, it could be anything and I find that the best people, with the best attitudes, the best mindset, and honestly the best looking people in Canada, live in Toronto,” Starke says. “I think because of that, we have the best dating scene in the country, hands down.”
‘We’re not New York’s little child brother anymore’
Whereas we wait to see how Starke’s courting life goes, by way of what these actual property professionals suppose makes Toronto an excellent funding for folks wanting so as to add to their luxurious actual property portfolio, Starke burdened that he believes many individuals weren’t conscious that the properties being showcased on Luxe Listings Toronto existed within the metropolis.
“I think where people thought maybe they have to go to Vancouver, now they have an opportunity to see the best of Toronto and we’re going to put it on the map in terms of luxury,” he mentioned.
“What makes Toronto very unique, I think, even during a tough market, is resilience,” Paige Torkan added. “That makes Toronto a very demanding market for real estate and also safe for investment.”
Peter mentioned that when he began promoting actual property in Toronto, the tons on the Bridal Path have been going for about $2 million, immediately that very same lot sits at $15 million.
“There is lot of wealth in the city and there’s a lot more coming in,” he mentioned. “So Toronto, I call it as steady as she goes, yes it might hit a little bit of bumps in the road, but it’s always towards upwards. “
“We are not New York’s little baby brother anymore. It’s big changes happening in Toronto.”
