Vancouver’s Housing Market is Dismal – Still Out Of Reach For Household Incomes Of $120,000 Yearly The housing numbers out of Vancouver, once among the world’s hottest real estate markets, are getting more dismal with each passing month. Sales in April, 2019 were the lowest in 24 years for a month that typically kicks off the busy spring homebuying season. Benchmark prices are down 8.7 per cent from their peak in mid-2018 and the number of homes sitting on the market has ballooned by nearly half, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Yet
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Tag: toronto real estate Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released August, 2019 Resale Market Figures
Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released August, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) President Michael Collins announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 7,711 residential sales through TREB’s MLS® System in August, 2019. This result represented a 13.4 per cent increase compared to 6,797 sales reported in August, 2018. On a month-over-month basis, after preliminary seasonal adjustment, sales were up by 0.8 per cent. “GTA-wide sales were up on a year-over-year basis for all major market segments, with annual rates of sales growth strongest for low-rise home types including detached houses. This reflects the
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate A Toronto Home Builds A Great Long Term Investment
A Toronto Home Builds A Great Long Term Investment Did you know 98% of homeowners continue to say that their most recent home purchase was for them to live in rather than as an investment to rent out? A home is the only investment you can live in while it grows in value. Please check out this handy infograph below to discover more key statistics surrounding home ownership. TREB created this infograph as a resource to give you a better understanding of how a home is a sound, long-term investment, not only for buyers, but
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released July, 2019 Resale Market Figures
Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released July, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 8,595 sales through TREB’s MLS® System in July 2019. This result was up by 24.3 per cent compared to July 2018. On a month-over-month basis, sales were up by 5.1 per cent, after preliminary seasonal adjustment. New listings entered into TREB’s MLS® System in July 2019 were up by 3.7 per cent compared to July 2018 and by a much lesser annual rate than sales, With annual growth in sales far outstripping annual growth in new listings, market conditions
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Condo rents soften in downtown Toronto, Apartment vacancy rate is up
The number of newer rental apartments in the GTA that are empty and ready for new tenants is at its highest level since a leading real-estate consulting firm started keeping track in 2015. According to Urbanation’s survey of purpose-built apartments completed since 2005, the average vacancy rate rose from a low of 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of last year to 1.5 per cent in the second quarter of this year. The Toronto firm added that the “availability rate” — which includes vacant units as well as occupied units where the tenant has given
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Canada Shows Signs of Housing Bubble, Bloomberg Reports in 2019
Canada and New Zealand are the most vulnerable economies to a correction in house prices, with Australia and the U.K. also drawing concern, according to new research from Bloomberg Economics. Seeking to build a “housing bubble dashboard,” economist Niraj Shah studied ratios of house prices to rent and income as well as inflation-adjusted prices and household credit. The results showed that Canada and New Zealand seem to be on the most unsustainable path, with the cost of housing compared with wages the highest in the world in both countries. Australia, Norway, Sweden and the U.K. also raise
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released June, 2019 Resale Market Figures
Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released June, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 8,860 sales through TREB’s MLS® System in June 2019, representing a 10.4 per cent increase compared to June 2018. Over the same time period, total new listings remained at a similar level for the month of June, 2019 and active listings at month-end of June, 2019 were down by 5.7 per cent. Sales and new listings statistics for the first half of 2019 compared to first half of 2018 painted a similar story to
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Bank of Canada poised to follow Fed with rate cuts later this year, traders speculate
Bank of Canada poised to follow Fed with rate cuts later this year, traders speculate The Bank of Canada is likely to join the U.S. Federal Reserve with an interest rate cut this year to deal with the fallout from rising trade tensions, according to trading in the swaps market. Investors are betting Canadian policy makers will follow an expected U.S. rate cut in September. The chances of a Bank of Canada match at the Oct. 30 meeting jumped above 50 per cent Tuesday, up from about 25 per cent last week, according to data compiled
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released May, 2019 Resale Market Figures
Central Toronto Real Estate TREB Released May, 2019 Resale Market Figures Toronto Real Estate Board President announced that Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 9,989 transactions through TREB’s MLS® System in May 2019. This result represented a substantial increase of 18.9 per cent over the 15-year low in May 2018, Please note that the result was still below the average for month of May sales for the previous ten years, which stands at almost 10,300. The year-over-year uptick in sales experienced so far in the second quarter of 2019 suggests that the share of likely home buyers
View Article...Tag: toronto real estate Canadian mortgage rates goes down to their lowest level in 2 years
Canadian mortgage rates goes down to their lowest level in 2 years House prices may be as high as ever in Toronto in June, 2019, but Toronto homebuyers are being offered some of the lowest mortgage rates seen in 2 years as lenders battle to drum up new business. Rates on a standard five-year fixed-rate mortgage have fallen to their lowest level in two years, according to rate comparison website, Ratehub.ca. Borrowers just about everywhere across the country can take their pick of offerings well below three (3) per cent at the moment, says James Laird, the site’s
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