A lack of homes for sale should be able to drive Toronto’s sizzling housing market to another time of double-digit price increases, the city’s Toronto real estate board told Tuesday. The Toronto Real Estate Board said the average price for all types of housing is forecast to rise to about $825,000 — up from $730,472 […]
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Surging sale of $1 million-plus Toronto homes producing calls for new measures
Sales of single-family detached homes obtaining prices of at the least$ 1-million have almost doubled in 2017 in the Greater Toronto Area, as economists raise the possibility of a real estate bubble. The GTA recorded 2,876 sale of detached properties of $ 1-million or more in January and February, 2017, compared with 1,548 in […]
More houses are needed, may not be a tax on foreign property buyers
Housing prices in Toronto went through the roof long before governments started toying with a tax on foreign dwelling buyers. While attractive for politicians, whose first response to any problem is to tax it, this issue has been decades in the making, matching a chronic absence of housing supplying to ever-increasing demand, driving prices […]
RBC looks at how price growth happens
In toronto real estate, many an armchair analyst has speculated on the factors behind Toronto and Vancouver’s runaway home values. And now, a recent study by RBC Capital Markets brings more data to the table. According to its report, home prices increased at a compound rate of 5.6% annually from 1999 to 2015 in Toronto and 6.2% in Vancouver, outperforming the […]
