Nobu Ignores Toronto Housing Bubble Drama With New Condo Project

  • De Niro-backed hotel speaks to Toronto’s ‘world class’ status
  • Policy makers to announce measures to tame city’s price surge

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Nobu isn’t worried about a Toronto housing bubble.

The company best known for high-end sushi and celebrity cachet is poised to enter the frothy residential real estate business in Canada’s largest city just as a growing chorus of economists warn that soaring home prices aren’t sustainable and a crash looms. Policy makers are expected to announce new measures Thursday to cool the market, including a tax on non-resident speculators.