Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released March, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 7,187 residential sales through TREB’s MLS® System in March 2019. This result was close to 7,188 sales reported in March 2018. For the first quarter of 2019, sales were down by […]
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Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released February, 2019 Resale Market Figures
Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released February, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 5,025 homes sold through TREB’s MLS® System in February 2019. This sales total was down by 2.4 per cent on a year-over-year basis. Sales were also down compared to January 2019 […]
Canada housing market has grown riskier, IMF has reported
Canada’s housing market has grown riskier over the past two years, with risk levels similar to those seen during the financial crisis a decade ago, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report released this week. But there is good news: The measures Canadian policymakers have taken over the past several years […]
New Rent control rules could mark return to sky-high rent increases for Toronto tenants
Toronto housing New Rent control rules could mark return to sky-high rent increases for Toronto tenants With new Rent control rules and the province of Ontario scrapping rent control for new units across Ontario as of November 15, 2018, affordable housing advocates are warning that the changes could mark a return to sky-high […]
Toronto home sales decline, could 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. The […]