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 Prices Bubble
Toronto house prices dip in May, 2017 but tight supply keeps prices up
Toronto region home prices dipped slightly from April to May — down $55,604 on average — but were still 15 per cent higher than May 2016, as the supply of resale house and condo listings rose 43 per cent of the same time over year. The average house price last month was $863,910 — […]
Toronto area home sales drop in May, 2017 after cooling measures
House sales fell 26 per cent in the Toronto region in May, 2017 following the Ontario government’s introduction of a foreign-buyer’s tax as many potential purchasers stepped back and waited to assess the market condotion. In the 30 days after the province of Ontario announced the immediate introduction of a 15 -per-cent foreign-buyer’s excise on […]
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 […]
