What a difference 17 years makes! Sometimes it takes a little time for an idea or a place to catch on. When I came to Blue Mountain in 2000, Collingwood was a sleepy little town. There was no Village at Blue Mountain and Blue was basically a winter resort. Fast forward to 2017, Blue Mountain…

The Blue Mountain NORC? What is a NORC??? If you haven’t heard of this expression before, it will be the new Ontario buzzword you’ll hear to describe the latest real estate phenomenon in Blue Mountain, Thornbury and Collingwood. NORC stands for: Naturally Occurring Retirement Community. At the heart of the NORC concept is the fact that the…

In 2000 I moved from Mont-Tremblant to Blue Mountain to work for Intrawest, the company that built the Village at Blue Mountain. Collingwood and Blue Mountain were sleepy rural towns, and the local real estate market was sleepy as well. Intrawest’s arrival on the scene created a lot of real estate buzz. Whistler-Blackcomb and Mont-Tremblant,…