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.
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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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The Neighbourhood Walk: What to Look for Before You Commit to an Address
Why You Walk It
Photographs and satellite views show you what a neighbourhood looks like. Walking it shows you what it feels like. Noise, traffic patterns, the condition of the neighbouring properties, the distance from your front door to the nearest convenience, the actual slope of the driveway in winter. None of that comes through on a screen.
If you are moving to the GTA from outside the city, or from one part of the GTA to another, the neighbourhood walk is the step most people skip and most people regret skipping. A thirty minute visit on a weekday evening and a second on a Saturday morning will tell you more than any listing description ever will.
The Weekday Evening Walk
Visit between five and seven on a weekday. This is when the neighbourhood shows you its commuter reality. Notice the traffic on the nearest main road. Is it backed up? For how long? Walk from the property to the nearest transit stop and time it. If you will be driving, sit in your car at the nearest intersection during the evening rush and observe.
Listen. Can you hear highway noise? Is there a flight path overhead? Are there trains? These are things you stop noticing after a while, but they affect resale value and they affect your quality of life. Stand on the driveway of the property you are considering and close your eyes for sixty seconds. What you hear is what you will hear every evening.
Look at the neighbouring properties. Are they well maintained? Are the gardens tidy? Is there construction happening? One renovation on the street is normal. Three or four suggests a neighbourhood that is turning over, which can mean noise and disruption for months.
Check the street parking. If the street is full of parked cars at six in the evening, that is what it will look like every evening. If you have a narrow driveway and rely on street parking for a second car, this matters.
The Saturday Morning Walk
Come back on a Saturday between nine and eleven. The weekend shows you the neighbourhood at rest. Are people walking dogs? Are children playing? Is the street quiet or is there through traffic using it as a shortcut?
Walk to the nearest grocery shop and time it. Walk to the nearest park and notice whether it is maintained. Look at the nearest school, even if you do not have children, because the condition of the local school is a reliable proxy for the condition of the neighbourhood and a significant factor in resale.
If there is a coffee shop or a small restaurant within walking distance, sit down for twenty minutes. The people around you are your future neighbours. The conversation, the pace, the feel of the place will tell you whether this is somewhere you want to be.
What to Look Up Before or After
Walk first, research second. If the walk felt right, confirm it with the following.
Check the municipal zoning for the lots nearby, particularly any vacant land or large lots that could be redeveloped. A six-storey residential building on the lot behind you will change your experience of the property. Your municipality's planning department has this information online.
Look at the property tax rate for the municipality. Municipal tax rates vary meaningfully across the GTA, and the rate you pay is determined by where you live, not where you work. This affects your carrying cost every month.
Search for planned infrastructure projects. A new transit line is generally good for property values. A new highway interchange directly adjacent to the property is generally not. Metrolinx and the relevant municipality both publish project maps.
Check the flood plain maps. Toronto Region Conservation Authority maintains maps showing which properties sit in regulated flood plains. This affects your insurance, your ability to renovate, and your resale.
Three Things People Miss
The first is the school bus route. If the property is on a school bus route, you will have a large yellow bus stopping outside your house twice a day during the school year, with the traffic that accompanies it. This is not a problem for everyone but it surprises people who did not expect it.
The second is the snow clearing. Side streets in some municipalities are cleared promptly. In others they are not. Ask a neighbour. They will tell you honestly, because they live with it every winter.
The third is the bin collection schedule. Some areas have curbside collection early in the morning, which means bins on the kerb the night before and collection trucks at six in the morning. If you are a light sleeper and the bedroom faces the street, this matters more than you might think.
The Point of All of This
A house is a structure. A neighbourhood is a life. You are buying both. The house you can renovate. The neighbourhood you cannot. Thirty minutes on foot, twice, is the cheapest due diligence available to you.
If you are considering an area of the GTA and want a local perspective on what the neighbourhood is actually like to live in, call me at 416-560-4983. I have worked in Toronto and York Region for thirty years and I can tell you things that do not show up on a map.
Danny Macedo, Macedo Real Estate Group, Royal LePage Supreme Realty, Brokerage.
