As we delve into the real estate landscape of April 2024, we find ourselves comparing it to the same period in 2023, which witnessed a temporary surge in market activity. In April 2024, however, home sales experienced a slight decline, yet there were notable shifts in other key indicators.    According to the latest data from the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) MLS® System, home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) totaled 7,114, marking a 5% decrease... [read more]

April 2016 Dear Friend, The real estate market in the GTA has performed very strongly in the first quarter of 2016 with both sales and prices rising.   Sales in the first quarter and in the month of March were up by 16% from last year.  This strength is also reflected in prices with average prices increasing by 12% to $688,181 from March, 2015.  Prices for the first quarter rose by 14% from the same quarter last year. With spring upon us and warmer weather around... [read more]

Toronto Real Estate Board members sold 4,945 homes in December, bringing the 2015 calendar year total to 101,299. This 9.2 % increase over 2014’s 92,782 sales, marked 2015 as the best year in the history of the Board. The average selling price for 2015 as a whole was $622,217 – up 9.8 % compared to $566,624 in 2014. City of Toronto Average price     $659,270 Aurora Average price    ... [read more]

March 2020 Dear Friend, A huge month of sales for the GTA area as realtors reported the sale of 7,256 homes, up 45.6% over the 4,982 homes sold in February 2019, with the average price increasing 16.7% to $910,290. While this seems to be good news for homeowners, the reality is its not, unless one has no intentions of purchasing another property, but simply cashing out. For those first time who purchased in the last little while, congratulations! You are in the market, and will keep... [read more]

December 2020, Dear Friend, Another record month of real estate sales for the GTA and Covid 19 had nothing to do with it! There are 5 major factors that are keeping the real estate market at record levels: Ridiculously low interest rates (1.5%) attracting new buyers into the market who can now qualify to buy. A strong economic recovery for many business sectors. Many Canadians ”cash” rich from not spending on trips etc. as well as getting government... [read more]