Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
We understand the power that the Internet holds for changing your life and making things easier for you. These benefits are at risk if people are concerned about their personal privacy. We are committed to providing you with an Internet experience that respects and protects your personal privacy choices and concerns.
In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively. We only use such information anonymously and in the aggregate. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience for you.
Email Links
This site provides an email address link located on the Contact Us page so that you may email us directly with any questions or comments you may have. This site reads all messages received and makes efforts to respond promptly.
In addition to replying to your comment or inquiry, we may also file your email for future reference regarding improvements to our website or discard the information. Your personal information is not shared, traded, sold, or exchanged with any third parties without your express permission.
Information Collection and Use
This site is the sole owner of the information collected. We will not sell, share, trade, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
This site collects information from our users at several different points on our website. We only collect personal information necessary to effectively market and sell the property of sellers, to locate, assess, and qualify properties for buyers, and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers.
We do not sell, trade, transfer, rent, or exchange your personal information with anyone.
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Since this site is a real estate site, we give you the option of requesting free real estate information about real estate properties. Your personal information is stored on our secure database.
We only collect personal information necessary to effectively market and sell the property of sellers, to locate, assess, and qualify properties for buyers, and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers.
We do not sell, trade, transfer, rent, or exchange your personal information with anyone.
Personal Information
This site functionality requires or requests users to give us contact information, such as their email address, and personal information, such as their names, addresses, phone numbers, and property details.
The visitor’s contact and personal information is used to contact the visitor when necessary and requested, but is primarily used to collect personal information necessary to effectively market and sell the property of sellers, to locate, assess, and qualify properties for buyers, and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers.
We do not sell, trade, transfer, rent, or exchange your personal information with anyone.
We do not disclose information about your individual visits to this site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe the law requires it.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law, or comply with a legal process served on our website.
Opt-Out
Users of this site have the option to unsubscribe from our mailing list directly through their accounts. To opt out, please navigate to the Subscription Settings located under My Account.
By disabling the email or SMS notification toggle, you’ll cease to receive notifications associated with the selected options.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy, and this site cannot be responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of these websites.
In addition, in certain instances, this site’s advertisers may ask you for personal information. This site cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of its advertisers.
Only certain employees have access to the information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on our employees who have access either to the databases that store user information, or to the servers that host our services.
While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, or alteration to data will not occur, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
Notification of Changes
This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the website. We’ll post those changes so that you’ll always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we’ll disclose it to anyone.
Please check this site for information about revisions to our privacy policy. We’ll notify you directly if there is a material change in our privacy practices.
We’ll take commercially reasonable measures to obtain written or active email consent from the user if this site is going to use the information collected from the user in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection. We’ll also post the changes in our privacy statement 10 days prior to a change.
Cookies
This website uses the following cookies:
Google Analytics
This cookie allows us to see information on user website activities, including, but not limited to, page views, source, and time spent on websites. The information is depersonalized and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals.
This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics, we can see what content is popular on our website, and strive to give you more of the things you enjoy reading and watching.
Google AdWords
Using Google AdWords code, we’re able to see which pages helped lead to contact form submissions. This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget.
Removal of and Access to Personal Information
We’ll accommodate the deletion of any personal information as soon as reasonably possible.
Should you wish to request erasure of personal data, please submit a written request to Macedo Real Estate Group, addressed to the address listed below. Each request will be validated, and you’ll be required to provide some personal information for security reasons.
Please note that Macedo Real Estate Group has the right to deny a request and provide an explanation as to why each request was denied.
Macedo Real Estate Group
www.MacedoRealEstateGroup.com
110 Weston Road
Toronto, ON M6M0A6
Canada
[email protected]
416-535-5000
Privacy Questions
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please send us an email, and we’ll be pleased to assist.
Royal LePage® Supreme Realty, Brokerage
110 Weston Road
Toronto, ON M6N 0A6
Call 416-535-8000
Text 647-931-5151
Copyright 2026. Macedo Real Estate Group, Danny Macedo, Sales Representative, Anthony Rocco Macedo, Sales Representative, Royal LePage Supreme Realty, Brokerage all rights reserved assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of any information shown. The information provided herein must only be used by consumers that have a bona fide interest in the purchase, sale or lease of real estate and may not be used for any commercial purpose or any other purpose.
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Choosing a GTA Community When You Have Never Lived Here: Six Questions
People moving to the Greater Toronto Area from elsewhere almost always start in the same place, which is a list of neighbourhood names they have read about. It is a reasonable instinct and it produces poor decisions, because a name tells you nothing about whether a place will suit the way you actually live.
What follows is a filter rather than a recommendation. Six questions, in this order. Work through them before you look at a single listing, and the shortlist tends to build itself.
One. Where does your day physically begin and end?
Not where you work. Where you have to be, and at what time, and how often.
The GTA is large, and the difference between a commute you tolerate and one that erodes you is usually twenty minutes each way. Two people in the same household with destinations in opposite directions is a different problem from two people heading the same way, and it is worth naming out loud before you fall for a neighbourhood.
Test it properly. Travel the route at the time you would actually travel it, on a weekday, in both directions. A journey that takes twenty-five minutes on a Sunday afternoon is not the journey you will be making.
Two. Car, transit, or both?
This single answer eliminates more of the map than any other.
If you intend to live without a car, you are looking at a fundamentally different set of communities than if you will drive everywhere. If you will have two cars, parking and driveway space stop being details and become requirements. If you plan to use the GO network, proximity to a station and the frequency of service on that particular line matter far more than the general idea of being near transit.
Be honest about this one. People routinely tell themselves they will take transit and then buy a second car within a year.
Three. What has to be within a short walk?
Make the list specific and keep it short. A supermarket. A school. A park. A place to get a coffee. A pharmacy. Somewhere to run.
Three or four things, honestly chosen, will tell you more about neighbourhood fit than any amount of general description. A community that has everything except the one thing you use daily will disappoint you slowly.
Four. What stage are you at, and what stage are you moving into?
This is the question most newcomers skip. Buying for the household you have today, when you know it is about to change, is how people end up moving twice.
If children are likely, school catchments and the layout of the house matter more than they do now. If children are leaving, the maintenance burden of a large property and a large garden is about to become a live issue rather than a theoretical one. If you are moving toward retirement, being able to walk to things stops being a nice feature and becomes the difference between independence and dependence.
Ask what you will need in five years, and weight it about half as heavily as what you need today. Not zero, and not equal.
Five. What are you actually able to buy there?
Now, and only now, bring price into it.
The mistake is to look at a neighbourhood average and assume it describes what you would be buying. Averages across a municipality blend condominium apartments, townhouses, semi-detached and detached houses into one figure, and that figure describes no individual house. The number you want is the price of your home type, in your target area, in the last month or two.
Ask for that specifically. If the answer comes back as a single average for the whole municipality, ask again.
Six. Have you spent time there when nobody was selling you anything?
Go on a weekday morning. Go on a Saturday. Go after dark. Walk it rather than driving it.
You are checking for the things that never appear in a listing or a neighbourhood guide. Traffic noise at the hours you would be asleep. Whether the streets are used or empty. Where the light falls. What the parking is like when everybody is home. How far the nearest shop really is when you are carrying something.
Thirty minutes on foot at the wrong time of day has saved more people from the wrong purchase than any amount of research.
How to use the six
Answer all six in writing before you shortlist. Then take each community you are considering and score it honestly against your own answers rather than against its reputation.
What usually happens is that two or three areas nobody suggested to you rise to the top, and one or two that you had set your heart on drop out on question one or question two. That is the filter working. It is much cheaper to discover it now than after you have moved.
One thing to be careful of
Anyone can tell you a neighbourhood is lovely. Far fewer people will tell you which parts of it are not right for you, and those are the ones worth listening to.
If you are moving into the GTA, or out of it, and you want to work through these six questions with someone who knows the ground, call or text me on 416-560-4983.
