Sep
The summer months are usually relatively quiet in the Toronto real estate market. There are some obvious reasons for that - people change gears and shift their attention to fun activities, and lots of folks take every opportunity to get out of the city. That...
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For most of 2018 so far, it has appeared that the Toronto real estate market has been 'down'. All along, I've been saying that it only looks that way because of the crazy price spike that occurred in the first few months of 2017, and...
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The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 7,834 sales in May 2018, 22.2% fewer than May 2017. There were 19,022 new listings posted to the Board, 26.2% fewer than the same month last year. Despite fewer new listings, the total number of available listings increased by 13.2%,...
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TREB reported 7,792 sales last month, a drop in volume of 32.1% from April 2017. The average sale price was down 12.4%, but keep in mind that at this time last year the market was still showing the effects of that massive price spike. April 2017...
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Once again, there's a lot of noise and nonsense about the Toronto real estate market. Headlines with words like "plummet" and "slump" make it seem as though the market is in bad shape. It's not. Firstly, we typically compare a month (e.g. February) to the same...
Read MoreThe Toronto real estate market survived a roller-coaster-like year in 2017. The first quarter (Q1) saw wicked price increases, followed by a hard rebound in prices in Q2, which in turn was followed by a period of relative calm in Q3, then a surge in...
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The most obvious aspect of the September market was the drop in sales volume. Transactions were down 35.1%, from 9,830 last year to just 6,379 this year. At the same time, the number of active listings surged from 11,255 to 19,021, an increase of 69%. This is, broadly...
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August was a slow month in the Toronto real estate market, which is fairly typical. TREB reported 6,357 sales, down 34.8% from the 9,748 sales we saw in August of 2016. While that sounds pretty dramatic, it's more than the 6,418 sales reported in August of 2012...
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The Toronto Real Estate market continued to moderate in June. The first point to note is that the average sale price was up 6.3% over June, 2016. Somehow, TREB's HPI was up 25.3%, which may indicate that the unweighted average was brought down by a...
Read MoreMuch is being made (e.g. in the media) about the 'decline' in sales in Toronto. As I have been saying (writing) for years, it's one thing for the pace or volume of sales to decline, and another for prices to decline. It's true that the volume...
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