Could this Toronto couple find a detached home with transit access on a $1-million budget?

In 2004, Peter McGillivray, an opera singer, met Jennifer, a production manager, when they were both working for the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. They got married in 2008, then in 2012 Ms. McGillivray’s work brought them north to Parry Sound, Ont., then to Sudbury in 2015, where they settled in a four-bedroom house purchased for $236,000.

Over the next eight years, both partners developed their careers – Mrs. McGillivray’s into a fundraising role and Mr. McGillivray processing employment insurance claims for Service Canada (he’s still hired to perform in about two or three operas and concerts a year). In 2023, another job offer, this time at Mrs. McGillivray’s alma mater of York University, brought the couple back to Toronto.