The Blue Mountain NORC!

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…

Market Changes – “The Heat is On”

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,…