Oct
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...
Read MoreOasis in the City - Recently featured in the Toronto Star, this beautiful home is a one-of-a-kind Arts and Crafts restoration. Fully finished, it features five bedrooms and four bathrooms over three floors plus a finished basement. There's plenty of room inside for living and...
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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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April was another busy month in the Toronto real estate market. New listings finally started to appear (21,630 new listings for the month, up 33.6% over April 2016) giving buyers more choice. Coupled with 11,630 sales for the month (down 3.3% from the 12,016 recorded in April...
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The Toronto real estate market blasted through March, 2017. We saw a decent increase in new listings (17,051, up 15.2%), which we expect this time of year, but sales once again gobbled 'em up. There were 12,077 transactions, an increase of 17.7% over March 2016. By...
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