Greater Toronto’s detached real estate market made big improvements last month. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show both prices and sales moved higher in July. While improved from last year, they haven’t returned to normal growth or volumes. Prices made a minimal move higher by the best performing measure, with suburbs doing best. Sales […]
Greater Toronto real estate buyers are back to buying… sort of. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers showed the price of a typical home jumped July. The increase came with a large increase in sales numbers, but still fell short of typical for the month. Toronto Real Estate Prices Rise In July The price of […]
Greater Toronto new home sales are improving, just not in the City of Toronto. Numbers from Altus Group, a leading real estate data firm, show a big climb for new home sales in June. While the climb is large, sales volumes are still below average for the month. Most interesting is the market shift. New […]
Toronto is still the King of North American real estate development. The Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) Crane Index shows Toronto had 120 active construction cranes in July. Toronto not only tops the list for the most real estate development in North America. It also has more than twice the number of active construction cranes than […]
Young person looking to move to Toronto? Better line up a professional gig first, or expect to bunk up. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) crunched the numbers to find the wage needed to rent in Greater Toronto. Digging into the numbers, we can see how unsustainably high prices have become. The average one-bedroom is […]
Greater Toronto’s detached real estate market is improving, but still far from recovered. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show year-over-year improvements in June. Numbers are better compared to last year, but the market has a long way to go to get back to normal. The biggest improvements are in the 905, which is seeing […]
Toronto real estate continues to trend higher, but isn’t quite there yet. Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) numbers show prices advanced in June, and are a few points below the high. The rise in aggregate price measures, are largely due to an increase in demand for detached homes in the 905. Meanwhile “cheaper” Toronto condos […]
Greater Toronto Area (GTA) new home sales spiked to the highest level in years. Altus Group’s May numbers show it was the highest number of sales in 16 years. Even though the month was higher, year to date sales are still some of the weakest in recent history. The boost in sales are likely due […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s most important stories. Canadian Real Estate Canada Lost 16,000 Jobs In May, Over 11,000 Were In Construction Canadian job numbers made an unusual decline in May, mostly due to a drop in construction. ADP employment numbers dropped to 16,519,461 jobs in May, down 0.10% from the […]
Time for your weekly cheat sheet on this week’s top stories. Canadian Real Estate Canadian Real Estate Price Growth Looks Absurd When Compared To Bubbly US Cities Canadian real estate prices made such a large move since 2000, the growth dwarfs even the frothiest of US cities. Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver have seen real estate […]