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Photo Credit TORONTO – Reacting to news of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s plan to hike property taxes by more than 10%, the 9 or so people that collectively own all Toronto real estate expressed outrage, saying that Chow is making the city unaffordable. “This city is expensive enough,” said the landlord who owns everything south of Front Street. “For the mayor to then turn around...

GTA REALTORS® Release October 2023 Stats Lack of affordability and uncertainty remained issues for many would-be home buyers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in October 2023. As a result, sales edged lower compared to last year. However, selling prices remained higher than last year’s levels. “Record population growth and a relatively resilient GTA economy have kept the overall demand for...

Inflated interest rates may have made real estate in already-overpriced Toronto completely unaffordable to all but the ultra-wealthy in recent months, but even if mortgage and tax bills on the average Toronto home now amount to upwards of $7,000 per month, prices have yet to drop to match the decline in market activity. Sales for both condos and homes in the GTA have been tanking, but even with...

Lack of inventory is the main underlying storyline in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) real estate market coming out of the winter months, and with an anticipated increase in demand, and competition among buyers, market watchers project renewed price growth. Part of the reason for growing demand, especially among first-time buyers, has been a red-hot rental market, as the average rents start to get closer...

The Bank of Canada today increased its target for the overnight rate to 3¼%, with the Bank Rate at 3½% and the deposit rate at 3¼%. The Bank is also continuing its policy of quantitative tightening. The global and Canadian economies are evolving broadly in line with the Bank’s July projection. The effects of COVID-19 outbreaks, ongoing supply disruptions, and the war in Ukraine continue to dampen...