Over the years, the city of Oshawa has already established a standing as a blue collar that GM called home. Potential home owners are starting to find out why real estate on this city is a good investment decision because this city of over 140,000 occupants and residence of the Oshawa Generals may be changing for several years now. Great home value and incredible growth is provided by Oshawa. Oshawa real-estate is placed into the spotlight in an international scale since 2007 when Oshawa won a gold medal from the International Awards for most Livable Communities.

In lots of aspects of Oshawa, growth, in residential, commercial and public real-estate is seen. Thousands of houses are being built all around the city, specifically in the north end or "New Oshawa" as some call real estate in that area. Burgeoning downtown features numerous new restaurants, a new 450,000 sq . ft . court room, the GM Centre, and numerous faculties of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. It's not hard to see why people are beginning to see the city and are, more than ever, calling it home particularly due to the public works projects and the declared expansion of the 407.

When comparing the costs of Oshawa real-estate to Toronto houses or even other parts of the Durham Region with average sale prices under $250,000 with many houses in good locations available for less, value is even easier to see. Of course real estate is location, location, location! This won't translate into run down shacks, but real value for houses not much further from downtown Toronto than residential real-estate in Brampton.

The phrase, a city on the upswing, is also used to illustrate Oshawa. An expanding downtown, new job opportunities, room for real estate expansion, new schools being built, a higher standard of living and a commutable distance to Toronto have caught the attention of real estate investors in the region as well as first time house buyers weighing the difference in what they could afford in Toronto compared to Oshawa. The city that lead the location in growth for quite a while is the Oshawa.