Toronto Real Estate TREB Published December, 2018 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported a total of 77,426 residential transactions through TREB’s MLS® System in 2018. This result represented a 16.1 per cent decline compared to 92,263 sales reported in 2017. Total new listings entered […]
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Interest Rate up inject to homebuyers’ challenges, more first-time buyers may not qualify
The interest rate up and third Bank of Canada rate hike this year could shut more first-time buyers out of the Toronto region’s housing market. It will increase hundreds of dollars to some homeowners’ challenge mortgage payments. More first-time buyers may not qualify for mortgage. The central bank has raised its key lending […]
Toronto’s steaming condo market slows down in 1st quarter, 2018
Toronto’s heated condo market looses some steam due to the growing development costs and some of the condo project cancellations. They have produced some caution into Toronto’s hot condo market, and with more project terminations likely yet to come, comments Urbanation, the development research company. Urbanation found that new Toronto condo launch prices went up […]
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. […]
Analyzing condo investors of Toronto market, a new study finds
What are the characteristics of the new pre-construction condo buyers in Toronto’s property market? These buyers buy out the most and best condo units in the condo building towers during the pre-sales period from the hundred of new condo builders across Toronto area. Close to 50 per cent (50%) of the mortgages […]
