Jun
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board recently released its May Market Report. From my perspective, it contained no surprises: supply is still tight, there are lots of active buyers out there, and as a result prices are quickly approaching pre-correction levels - all stuff that...
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Following the 4.3% decline in year-over-year average sale price that we saw in September, October saw a slightly bigger decline, with the average sale price dipping 5.7% in October. There were 4,961 sales in October 2022, down from 9743 in October 2021. That's similar to the...
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As happens from time to time, the Toronto real estate market has entered a pause. Lots of voices are pointing to increased mortgage rates, and that's a factor, but I think there's more to it than just that. The market was incredibly competitive for the...
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The Toronto real estate market almost always takes a breather in the summer time, as both buyers and sellers turn to other activities - like enjoying the outdoors and having fun! But, the market never stops. Here's what happened over the last couple of months. July...
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By now we've all been hearing for a couple of months about how 'hot' the Toronto real estate market is - and it is. Some of that has to do with COVID - i.e. we're comparing this busy March to post-lockdown March 2020 - but...
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The torrid pace of real estate transactions in this latter half of 2020 continued through November. TRREB reported 8,766 sales in November across the GTA, up 24.3% over November, 2019. New listings also increased, by 33.4% (from 8,651 in November 2019 to 11,545 in November...
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As expected, January was a slow month in the Toronto real estate market. Just 4,009 sales were reported, up a wee bit from 3,987 last January. (For reference, there were 5,188 in January 2017; 4,640 in January 2016; and 4,318 in January 2015, so the last couple of...
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The Toronto real estate market had a slow-ish November, with sales volume dropping 14.7%, from 7,326 in November 2017 to 6,251 last month. At the same time, the number of new listings dropped 26.1%, from 14,260 to just 10,534, and the total number of listings...
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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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Well, the TREB stats are out for March, and so are the breathless headlines! I was going to comment on a few of them, but the thought gave me a headache. ;) While sales volume fell significantly year-over-year (down about 40%), one has to remember that...
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