Along with information about schools and transit, some real listings in Canada can now tell you about the risks of floods, heat and extreme weather.
In Toronto, a detached home in East York recently hit the market for just shy of $2 million. It has several bedrooms and two baths and the location is highly ranked for its schools, daycares and transit friendliness. But it also comes with a “high” risk of projected heat and storms, with 31 hot days a year by 2050 and 13 significant 2-day storms.
The U.S. online real estate climate risk calculator ClimateCheck has partnered with the Montreal-based platform Local Logic, to provide climate risk scores, now available for the first time in Canada. They are already live on Royal LePage listings and coming soon to Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, and REW.ca
“Making folks aware of the risk to their individual property and then their community allows them to mitigate the risk to their home.” Maybe that’s through installing bigger rain gutters, or landscaping work for fire prevention, he added.
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