Housing prices in Toronto went through the roof long before governments started toying with a levy on foreign property buyers. While attractive for politicians, whose first have responded to any problem is to tax it, the above issues has been decades in the making, matching a chronic absence of housing supply to ever-increasing demand, […]
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Even Toronto’s Top 1 per cent Earners Are Being Priced Out Of Housing Sell, BMO Says
Taking into account the “stress test” for mortgages that the federal Liberals instituted last year, Porter estimated that a couple earning $225,000 with $100,000 for a down payment would be able to buy a residence of $987,289. The median rate of a single-family house sold in Toronto in February was $1.57 million. “It […]