TREB October, 2018 Resale Market Watch Report Greater Toronto, November 5, 2018 – TREB October, 2018 Resale Market Watch Report. Toronto Real Estate Board President Garry Bhaura announced year-over-year increases in home sales and average sale prices reported through TREB’s MLS® System in October 2018. Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 7,492 sales through TREB’s MLS® System in October 2018 – a six per cent increase compared to October 2017. On a preliminary seasonally adjusted basis, sales were down by one per cent compared to September 2018. The average sale price for October 2018 was up 3.5 per
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Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts Interest Rate goes up adding to homebuyers’ challenges, more first-time buyers will not qualify
The interest rate up and third Bank of Canada rate hike this year could shut more first-time buyers out of the Toronto region’s housing market. It will increase hundreds of dollars to some homeowners’ challenge mortgage payments. More first-time buyers may not qualify for mortgage. The central bank has raised its key lending rate 0.25 to 1.75 per cent on October 24, 2018. Similarly, Canada’s big banks boost their prime rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 3.95 per cent from 3.70 per cent, effective October 25. The bank previously raised rates by 0.25 percentage points
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts Toronto’s heated condo market looses steam in 1st quarter, 2018
Toronto’s heated condo market looses some steam due to the growing development costs and some of the condo project cancellations. They have produced some caution into Toronto’s hot condo market, and with more project terminations likely yet to come, comments Urbanation, the development research company. Urbanation found that new Toronto condo launch prices went up 23 per cent year over year at the end of the 1st quarter, 2018. Even with a really large number of condo development projects that were launched in 2017, about 53 condo developments projects with nearly 14,000 units that still had not begun construction. It’
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts 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 Ontario government needed to act to cool the over-heated market when it peaked at more than 30 per cent year-over-year price growth last April, 2017.. If the government’s policy target was to increase affordability of buyers, that has not happened yet. The short supply
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts Analysis of condo investors in Toronto, a new study reveals
What are the characteristics of the new pre-construction condo buyers in Toronto’s property market? These buyers buy out the most and best condo units in the condo building towers during the pre-sales period from the hundred of new condo builders across Toronto area. Close to 50 per cent (50%) of the mortgages then rent their condo units to the existing large pool of available renters by leasing their units. An acute shortage of available apartment rental units is existing in the Toronto area for more than ten (10) years. The vacancy rate of rental apartments in the Toronto
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts GTA home sales declined 40 per cent in March, 2018 compared to March, 2017
GTA home sales declined 40% in March, 2018 in 12 months from March, 2017 and the average price also declined by 14 per cent, according to the latest Toronto Real Estate Board report. TREB reported 7,228 residential transactions in March, 2018 in the GTA, a large decrease from the record 11,954 sales reported in March 2017. The monthly figure of march, 2018 is down 17.6 per cent compared to average March sales for the previous 10 years. The real estate market in the GTA is in retreat mode following detached house prices increase by almost by one
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts Toronto Condo owners made large capital gains and almost half in negative cash flow
Toronto Condo owners made large capital gains. Close to 50 per cent of all investors who bought condominiums completed in the Toronto area in 2017 are not making enough rent to cover their carrying costs, despite finding exceptional gains on the value of their properties, a new study reports. Close to 44 per cent of investors who took possession of new units in 2017 were in negative cash flow — that is their rental income was lower than the amount needed to cover their mortgage payments and condominium fees, according to the study by CIBC and Urbanation, a
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts Real estate prices are falling in Toronto, is there a crash in the way
Post Title: Real estate prices are falling around Toronto, is there a crash in the way Max Seal, Broker’s Comments: The title of this post says it all. In March, 2018, the media reporters are competing for catchy “going-down-the-hole” negative headlines to describe crashing of Toronto housing prices. Just 1 year ago back in March, 2017, the same media reporters were suggesting that thousands of buyers may not be able to buy a house in their lifetime unless they entered the housing market in the Toronto area right away when house prices were galloping. Some people outside the
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts Toronto home sales decline in January, 2018, may point to return to a normal market
Toronto home sales decline in January, 2018. The prices appear relatively flat and the house sales were down about 40 per cent over the last two weeks in February, 2018, in the Toronto area compared to the same period in 2017, while condo sales dropped about 30 per cent, said Pasalis, real estate broker. The real estate market has been affected by a series of policies like, (1) Ontario’s Fair Housing Policy, (2) a foreign buyers’ tax aimed at cooling the market, (3) a new mortgage stress test targeted at protecting Canadian banks from dangerously high household debt
View Article...Category: Toronto Mortgage Posts OSFI’s new mortgage rules will decrease home affordability
OSFI’s new mortgage rules will decrease home affordability. OFSI’s (Canada’s banking regulator) has published final guidelines for its mortgage qualification rule. It will impose tighter standards on the uninsured market. Lenders will be required to “stress test” all uninsured mortgage loans at the greater of the Bank of Canada’s five-year (5) posted rate or 200 basis points (2 percentage points) higher than the negotiated contract rate. The rule is applicable where the buyer makes a down payment of at least 20 per cent of the home’s purchase price or higher. Home affordability will undoubtedly affect as a result of
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