Canada and New Zealand are the most vulnerable economies to a correction in house prices, with Australia and the U.K. also drawing concern, according to new research from Bloomberg Economics. Seeking to build a “housing bubble dashboard,” economist Niraj Shah studied ratios of house prices to rent and income as well as inflation-adjusted […]
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Toronto home sales continue to decline, sign to a return to normal market
Toronto real estate market has seen the effects of a confluence of policies: Ontario’s Fair Housing Policy, including a foreign buyers’ tax aimed at cooling the market; a new mortgage stress test targeted at protecting Canadians from dangerously high household debt levels; and the Bank of Canada’s moves to increase interest rates. […]
Toronto home sales decrease in January, 2018, may show return to a normal market
Toronto home sales decrease in January, 2018. The prices appear relatively flat and the house sales were down about 40 per cent over the last two weeks in February, 2018, in the Toronto area compared to the same period in 2017, while condo sales dropped about 30 per cent, said Pasalis, real estate broker. […]
Toronto home prices down more in August, 2017
The Realtors and the Economists are looking at a return to normal in Toronto’s housing market despite a fourth consecutive month-to-month dropped in median residence prices. The Toronto Real Estate Board( TREB) reported that the average cost of a home in August — $732,292 (including all house types and condos) — was still up […]
Cooling Toronto housing market could be a return to normal, state realtors
It could also be the barely disguised frustration of sellers, who listed their homes this spring expecting to attract cut-throat bids from desperate, over-extended purchasers. Instead they are seeing fewer showings and fewer offers. Toronto area home prices dipped about 7 per cent in May, 2017 compared to April, 2017 but remained about […]
