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The Toronto Star just reported that Toronto added nearly 269,000 people from July 2023 to July 2024, making it the fastest-growing city in both Canada and the U.S. for the second...
People often see headlines about the GTA housing market and assume those trends apply directly to their own home and neighbourhood. But the reality is far more nuanced.
I’ve long been a critic of Canada’s obsession with treating homes and condos as speculative investments.
Canada’s sluggish housing market has triggered another round of finger-pointing, with many economists and industry voices blaming government taxes - especially sales taxes and...
Pierre Poilievre’s proposed capital gains deferral plan has sparked debate about its potential impact on Canada’s housing market.
Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney proposed waiving the GST on new homes up to $1 million—but only for first-time buyers. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had originally...
Toronto’s rental market remains highly active, with demand for condominium rentals continuing to surge.
Canadians are rightly outraged by Donald Trump’s new tariffs, but many fail to grasp just how profoundly these measures will reshape Canada’s economy and its position in the world...
Here are my Top 5 risks facing Toronto’s housing market in 2025.
As we move into 2025, it’s worth looking back to see how sales, listings and prices in 2024 compared to previous years.
Toronto Resale Housing Market: A Tale of Two Halves in 2024
After six sluggish months, Toronto’s housing market finally turned a corner as sales surged 45% year over year for low-rise homes and 32% for condominiums in October.
While the Toronto area experienced an unseasonably warm September this year, the housing market remained cool.
What buyers and sellers do in September will set the tone for the rest of the season.
The Greater Toronto Area has a record 11,079 condominium units available for sale, the highest number of units for any month in any year.
The number of condos available for sale in the Toronto area has reached another new record high — so will this surge ease our housing shortage?
While most media headlines regarding Toronto’s condo market have focused on the record number of units listed for sale, there is a bigger and more troubling risk that few have...
The outlook for Canada’s economy and housing market is challenging, with more difficulties likely before any improvement.
Some prominent real estate industry figures are predicting boom times will return to the Toronto housing market - what can home buyers and sellers really expect?
At the end of May, the Toronto area had 9,951 condominiums available for sale, the highest number of units for sale for any month in recent history.
Canada's population is experiencing rapid growth, but housing starts are plummeting, raising concerns for the future of Toronto's housing market. This article explores the...
Normally the busiest time of the year, soft demand for houses and a spike in condo listings stand out in last month's market statistics.
The latest stats are in for March 2024.
Latest data shows Toronto’s housing market remained competitive in February, but a significant increase in new listings is taking some heat out of the market.
Is Toronto in a Housing Bubble That's About to Burst?
I look into the data to understand why Toronto area condo rents have been falling over the last 5 months.
The housing market in the Toronto area became far more competitive in January thanks to a rapid increase in the number of sales and moderate to no growth in the number of new...
The federal government is now scrambling to reign in Canada's spiking foreign student numbers - how will this impact the housing market?
The GTA’s housing market ended the year with the lowest number of home sales in over 20 years.
Is Toronto’s housing market turning another corner after being sluggish over the past few months?
A closer look at the data reveals that the market for low-rise houses and condos is performing unevenly across the Greater Toronto Area’s (GTA) five regions.
The current high interest rate cycle, which started in 2022, has continued to push home sales in the Greater Toronto Area to historic low levels.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that investors are starting to look to deleverage properties in the Toronto are - does the data suggest this is part of a larger trend?
We are finally starting to see some inventory build up as listings start to increase while sales slow heading into the fall market.
Toronto’s housing market continued to cool as we moved towards the end of the summer season.
A closer look at weekly, rather than monthly numbers, reflects the same market slowdown being seen on-the-ground in the Toronto area real estate market.
Just when and why a decent income stopped being enough to buy a home in the Toronto area - and just what is our ever expensive market running on instead?
In our new feature, "Move Smartly Ideas", I talk to Urmi about what I'm reading, writing and talking about right now.
A closer look at weekly, rather than monthly numbers, reflects the same market slowdown being seen on-the-ground in the Toronto area real estate market.
This was the first month since last June that saw house prices increase year-over-year.
A 20-year low in the number of homes being listed for sale is causing Toronto area house prices to rise again, despite today's high interest rates.
Amidst continuing historically low levels of home sales, the competition for houses is surprisingly intense in Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as demand outpaces listings.
Why Canadian banks are working with buyers to lower payments by extending amortization periods and more.
It’s March Madness time and also time for another Toronto-Van City Real Estate Roundtable with Urmi, John and Steve!
Watch my recent live market update chat where I share my report highlights and answer your questions on our Move Smartly YouTube channel.
In spite of historically low sales levels and high interest rates, the demand bottleneck typical of the first quarter is making its annual appearance.
New statistics show high levels of local investor investment in Ontario's housing market.
Toronto area sales levels continue to hit historical lows, but low listing levels keep prices flat.
A data specialist helps us better understand the many factors that tell us where the market is now - and might be going next.
2022 home prices are up year-over-year, but this obscures a tumultuous year in which prices hit new highs at the start, fell sharply in the middle, and have stayed flat since.
New Year, New Roundtable! Urmi talks to John and Steve about what we can expect to see as Canada faces an uncertain housing market in 2023.
Aside from a small dip during Covid, Toronto rents are ever higher for both condos and houses - as buying becomes more out of reach for many.
Why this holiday season is unprecedented for reasons beyond this Christmas weekend's 'weather bomb.'
After long denying the role that foreign buyers play in Canada's housing market, the federal government and authorities are not targeting the real problem.
As we head to the end of 2022, Urmi talks to John and Steve about top real estate stories in Canada & world right now - Canadians facing financial stress as interest rates rise...
Most recent market numbers from November show that prices in the Toronto area market are plateauing - for now.
Latest numbers continue to show a stalemate - for now.
In our monthly discussion, Urmi talks to John and Steve about top real estate stories in Canada & world right now - a global housing slump, Canada specific risks and where will...
The path forward is far from certain - I take a close look at the data to see what might happen next.
September market numbers are out - and I review how they stack up against on the ground realities now.
What economic research says about how real estate prices tend to move when the market changes suddenly.
Rising rents are keeping investors optimistic - for now.
With demand for real estate falling off dramatically, why aren't we seeing the build-up of homes on the market we'd expect?
August market numbers are out - and I review how they stack up against on the ground realities now.
The number of homes listed under the critical $1 million mark increases as the Toronto area real estate market continues to slow down.
Areas that rose the highest during the Covid-boom are falling the most.
Toronto is the first municipality in the GTA to return to pre-pandemic prices.
Average house price down to $1,285,222 in July, down 1% over last year, while average condo prices slid to $738,930, still 7% up over last year.
Why things are different from the last time we saw a market downturn in 2017.
Latest market numbers show that Toronto's house and condo prices falling up to 20% from peaks earlier this year though staying slightly up year-over-year.
We haven't seen numbers like this since the height of the onset of Covid-19 pandemic.
Early signs of a slowdown on-the-ground now strongly showing in the latest market numbers.
Some areas that saw the fastest price gains during the pandemic are now coming down.
How consumer - and agent - anxiety is playing a role.
Over the last decade in the Toronto area, this increase has averaged 8% per year - but not this year.
The slowdown we were first seeing on the ground over the past two months is now showing in the numbers.
The big news in the housing market has been surging interest rates.
While March 2022 housing market numbers were well above those of 2021 and 2020, there are some signs of cooling as average prices fall slightly from February.
The numbers for February continued to show a hot market.
Cold weather and snow storms in January did nothing to cool down Toronto’s red hot housing market.
As rising interest rates and other market cooling factors arise, will home prices necessarily fall?
A closer look at the more likely - though yet to be seen - factors.
Condo buyers were pulled eastward in the search for affordability.
Suburban area homes are hot in the search for affordability.
Record year of 119,532 home sales, surpassing the previous record of 112,288 in 2016.
A deeper dig into a new pitch from 'Key'.
Why a change who's behind the demand for homes makes all the difference.
Colder weather has had no effect on Toronto’s red hot housing market which continued to show signs of heating up last month.
Real buyer demand has explained home prices rises recently, but is a familiar old factor now the story?
The Toronto Area real estate market once again posted strong numbers in October.
With interest rates rising, could Canadian housing prices finally start to cool?
A deep data dive takes us past some familiar complaints to find the real reasons our supply of homes can't meet demand.
Average house prices jump up after months of holding steady as new listings remain historically low and average condo prices rise slightly.
A 56% decline from inventory levels year-over-year as the fall market is expected to remain as competitive as it has been this summer.
July's market numbers show that new listing supply for houses is falling faster than for condos.
Signs that the market is still moving quickly, but not as out-of-control as it was months ago.
The Toronto area market is still competitive and favouring sellers - but things are cooling down.
When thinking about what might trigger a decline in home prices, there are generally two broad categories — a fundamental trigger and a behavioural trigger.
Is it financially safe and worth making so many other sacrifices - like a long commute or living on a busy street - to get into the Toronto area housing market right now?
In the GTA's overheated market, even first-time buyers with good incomes are finding it nearly impossible to afford a home without long commutes to the city.
House sales of 7,825 in May are up 157% over last year - but this is due to the anomalies of the COVID-19 lockdown last year - and sales volumes have been trending down since...
Will a pullback in the market lead to lower average home prices in the coming months or will prices stay high throughout 2021? What would it take to bring down the average cost of...
Why only reporting upbeat and positive information is the domain of old school real estate brokerages.
As agents suggest that demand from investors for Toronto condos has likely exceeded pre-pandemic levels, we dig into the numbers to see.
The most important trend of note now is the start of a gradual cooling down in the market for houses across the Greater Toronto Area.
With 79% of houses and 63% of condos selling over the asking price in a pandemic no less, average home buyers are stressed - and confused.
A frank admission acknowledges what many have been saying - but does the government really care?
This month we explore low inventory levels and demand shock in Toronto's housing market.
What action should policy makers take to mitigate Canada's runaway home prices - and what are they most likely to do?
This month we explore the booming housing market in Toronto and across Canada and how new macro-prudential policies can be introduced to help cool the market.
Why mortgage rate increases are unlikely to dampen buyer enthusiasm, how the Bank of Canada is contributing to it and more.
This month we do a data dive on the City of Toronto’s volatile condo market over the past year.
'Excessive exuberance' on display in the Toronto area real estate market right now.
A closer look at some surprising real estate stories this week.
This month we look at Toronto's emerging housing bubble in the suburbs, how it's different from 2017 and how it will end this time around.
In this post we look at the condominium neighbourhoods within the Toronto and GTA area that have performed well in terms of home price appreciation during 2020.
Given the year we’ve had and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s interesting to note which neighbourhoods within the Toronto and GTA area have performed well in terms of...
In this month's Move Smartly report, we look at key trends to keep an eye on in the Toronto real estate market during 2021.
In this month's Move Smartly report, we look back at 2020 and how COVID-19 impacted the Toronto real estate market.
This month's Move Smartly report discusses when Toronto's downtown condo market will return to normal and the many vulnerabilities it faces.
This month's Move Smartly report investigates the rapid acceleration in demand and house prices in Toronto's suburban markets.
This month, The Move Smartly Report digs into where Toronto's surge in condo rental supply is coming from.
Once again, is the real problem supply or demand?
Our Monthly Market Report looks at how well major forecasts for Toronto area home prices are holding up six months after the start of the Covid-19 crisis.
In spite of three months of economic free fall due to COVID-19, the Toronto real estate market seems to be returning to its pre-pandemic vigour.
Canada's top mortgage body just shared some pretty bleak expectations - should we take heed?
Why the widely reported drop in condo prices in last week's news was misleading.
The market is now more competitive than it was four weeks ago.
The Greater Toronto Area saw a record low 2,942 home sales in April 2020.
The average rent for a condo across the Toronto area is down, while units for rent climb.
An increase in months of inventory suggests buyers as slowly re-entering the market - but not all regions across the Toronto area are picking up at the same speed.
Home sales numbers continue to be down across Toronto and the GTA, but an equal drop in new homes for sale appears to be keeping prices stable.
The Greater Toronto Area saw a sharp decline in both sales and new listings as home buyers and sellers adjust to the reality of the Coronavirus crisis.
Some markets in the Greater Toronto Area are showing signs of the type of slowdown that requires buyers and sellers to act carefully.
Toronto real estate market sales have dropped sharply in the third week of Ontario's state of emergency due to Coronavirus pandemic.
While the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is unprecedented, its impact on the real estate market can be seen in terms of demand and supply effects which tend to be more familiar.
Research over 500+ Toronto Area neighbourhoods to see which fit your lifestyle needs - and offer the best return on your financial investment.
Find out how local real markets are doing in over 500 Toronto area neighbourhoods - based on real time house price data.
This week, I talked to BNN Bloomberg about the questions you should be asking yourself before investing in a pre-construction condo.
John Pasalis, President of Realosophy Realty, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss needed changes to Canada's mortgage stress tests - and why it is unlikely to make a big impact on the...
Condos in the Greater Toronto Area are fetching prices 15% higher than last year - but this time, it's not because of higher demand.
Realosophy's John Pasalis talks to BNN's Greg Bonnell about why sharply rising prices - particularly in Toronto's condo sector - might be a cause for concern.
Realosophy's John Pasalis chats with the team at BNN Bloomberg to review Toronto real estate in 2019 - and discuss what's ahead for 2020.
One data trend emerges starkly amongst a litany of theories.
The Toronto Area real estate market is heating up and getting competitive this winter as sales and prices rise and the number of new listings falls.
Why momentum is swinging back to the regions - and types of homes - that were hit hardest in last few years.
An investigation into the claim that thousands of Toronto investor-owned condos are sitting empty.
All Toronto area regions saw sales grow by double digits - except for Halton.
Why the returning Liberal Government's first-time buyer incentives are unlikely to make much of a difference - and what policy changes would.
Toronto's fall real estate market opened with continued demand for detached homes throughout the Toronto area, with York Region leading the way.
August home sales in the Greater Toronto (GTA) area were up 13% over the same month last year based on Realosophy Realty's analysis of sales through the Toronto Real Estate...
Toronto area detached home sales in continued to surge in last month - so why are prices falling?
Why are house prices sliding in the West of Canada, while the East returns to growth, with the Toronto Area's York Region leading the way?
Toronto area condo prices are now out of reach for many buyers, pushing sales down - so what's keeping prices up?
Strong demand continues with sales up 19% over the same month last year, but why aren't we seeing the bidding wars of previous years?
York Region detached homes were the hardest hit by a bubble in 2017 - so why are sales booming again?
Condos have helped to prop up a drooping real estate market in the Toronto area - but has demand for them started to cool?
Toronto is doing better at the things that matter most and was less affected by negative factors.
The good, the bad and the ugly details that might impact Toronto’s housing market in the year ahead.
A soft landing in the housing market is a moderate and relatively balanced decline in house prices rather than a big 40-50% crash that some housing markets experience when bubbles...
Special Report: Toronto’s twenty-year housing boom has resulted in a negative side effect that homeowners are starting to feel – very high debt levels.
Will the Toronto real estate market return to previously seen highs - or has a major new road block appeared?
Can buying in outlying areas normally thought of as 'cottage country' be a viable way to get onto the housing ladder?
When will innovative Toronto-area brokerages like Realosophy finally be able to share home sold prices with consumers online?
Why are so many homes sitting empty and why has the number increased over last year?
When we look at the number of properties that have been listed for sale in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) (including Toronto) since 2012, we see a very interesting trend.
The Canadian federal government introduced new mortgage rules in the fall of 2016 to combat rapidly increasing home prices - but have they driven up condo prices instead?
With an incumbent already conceding defeat and two starkly opposed front-runners, an uncertain Ontario heads to provincial polls this Thurs June 7. Here's a summary of the main...
One of the questions I get often from buyers is how house prices can remain stable while sales are declining and inventory is increasing?
This time last year, nearly 1,000 Toronto home buyers and sellers suffered major financial losses - could they have done something differently or was it just bad timing?
With Toronto Areacondo sales down 26% in April 2018, many buyers are wondering why the condo market is still incredibly competitive and prices are still up.
Today we're releasing a new report featuring my analysis of last year's real estate bubble - why it happened and how it affected home buyers and sellers in Toronto and the Greater...
This time last year we published a report Freeholds on Fire: How Investor Demand for Houses is Driving Up Prices in the Greater Toronto Area which looked at how investors in the...
The headlines and the recent numbers about the Greater Toronto Area’s real estate market have not been great this spring. Average home prices are down 14% in March and sales are...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
Ryerson’s City Building Institute published an interesting paper this week that concluded that builders are not building...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Yesterday the Ontario provincial government announced plans to add more regulation to the practice of double...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
If you’re considering buying a home in the Greater Toronto Area, it’s really tough to make sense of what is really happening in the real...
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In my last blog post (The GTA Neighbourhoods Home Buyers Should Avoid), I walked through a metric we use at Realosophy to...
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All you need to know regarding the housing market in Toronto, Canada and abroad.
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“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful” - Warren Buffett
Acclaimed investor Warren Buffett...
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The province of Ontario just announced that 4.7% of the 18,282 homes purchased in the Greater Golden Horseshoe between April 24th and May...
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Realosophy President and Move Smartly Writer John Pasalis joined Toronto Star’s Tess Kalinowski onTVO’s The Agenda's Nam Kiwanuka to talk about the cooling real estate market -...
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News , Home Buying
If there is one part of the home buying process that all of Toronto hates – it’s when you have to compete for a home...
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
On April 20th 2017 the Ontario government introduced their Fair Housing Plan which included a 15% tax on homes purchased by foreign...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The first half of 2017 has been a roller coaster ride for Toronto’s real estate market.
The first 3 months of the year were the most...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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All you need to know regarding the housing market in Toronto, Canada and abroad.
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The Ontario government has responded to the rapid growth in house prices and rents in the Greater Toronto Area by releasing what they...
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Have you wondered about becoming a real estate agent, but worried about taking the plunge?
We’ve designed the Realosophy Sales Assistant...
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The first week of April saw the number of new listings of freehold houses (detached, semi-detached and townhouses) surge 62% over last...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto's real estate market continued to defy gravity in March when the average price for a home climbed to $922,757 in March 2017, a 33%...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Last year I wrote about a trend I had been noticing in the Toronto area real estate market - whether at our office or at dinner parties,...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In the late 1980's economists Robert Shiller and Karl Case began to challenge the long standing assumption that all home buying decisions...
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The Greater Toronto Area's real estate market is off to a very hot start in 2017. The table below shows the average price for a detached...
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Toronto’s housing market is as diverse as its people: ranging in price, size, and location. I pick a Toronto listing or trend to focus on...
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Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Toronto’s housing market is as diverse as its people: ranging in price, size, and location. I pick a Toronto listing or trend to focus...
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Earlier this month the Toronto Real Estate Board announced that the average price of a detached home in the 905 region was up 29.4% year...
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A law...
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying
As I started my own home search a few months ago I found myself in an interesting position – for an owner of a real estate...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Torontonians have become so accustomed to hearing about how competitive the real estate market is and how quickly prices are rising that...
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In the face of a serious housing shortage in the GTA, the City of Toronto is actively discouraging homeowners from legally adding one or...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Toronto’s housing market is as diverse as its people: ranging in price, size, and location. I pick a Toronto listing to focus on each...
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Toronto’s housing market is as diverse as its people: ranging in price, size, and location. I pick a Toronto listing to focus on each...
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Readers of this blog know that I am not one to call bubbles lightly (or every month for the past few years, like some). Something may...
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The recent insolvency of the Urbancorp builder group, and its impact on hundreds of would-be home buyers who wanted to complete...
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This is the luxury edition of the six in the six, where we highlight the top listings in each category weekly. Who made the cut this...
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This is the GTA edition of the six in the six, where we highlight the top listings in each category weekly. Who made the cut this week?...
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A new business to transfer funds in real estate purchases and sales is being proposed in Ontario.
The plan is to take control of all closing funds, move the...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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Toronto’s housing market is as diverse as its people: ranging in price, size, and décor. We pick the top Toronto listings in each...
Nicole Harrington in Listings of the Week
Toronto’s housing market is as diverse as its people, ranging in price, size, and décor. We pick the top Toronto listings in each...
Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
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For about a year now we have been seeing articles touting the ability of Starbucks, and other consumer facing retailers, to dramatically increase...
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Feeling Priced Out? What Options do New Home Buyers Have in the Toronto Market?
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Below are my top takeaways for Toronto’s real estate market in 2015.
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A Tax Court of Canada decision last month can help buyers of new homes and condos ensure they qualify for the HST new home rebate.
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The semiannual Globe and Mail Home Value Survey powered by Realosophy is out today! Go to the interactive map to see how your neighbourhood has performed.
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As a follow up to my previous post which looked more closely at the market for houses in 2014, this week I’m going to look at Toronto’s condo...
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As 2015 slowly approaches I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look back at how Toronto’s real estate market performed in 2014 to see if it...
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Deciding whether or not it’s the right time to buy your first home is one of the most important decisions many people will make in...
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Realosophy released its semi-annual Home Value Survey for the Globe and Mail today and I thought this...
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Ever since Garry Marr published his article in the Financial Post titled “Canada’s next housing bubble: real estate agents” there has been...
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After a fiercely competitive start to 2014, Toronto’s real estate market is starting to show signs that things are cooling down slightly.
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Toronto’s real estate market has seen a significant spike in sales over the past three months. Resale home sales in the GTA were up 13% in...
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If you’re a condo buyer in Toronto it’s certainly tough to make sense of what’s really happening in the market. In the...
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Ever since the federal government reduced the maximum amortization on insured mortgages in Canada back in July 2012 we...
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The first Sat of every month, Realosophy hosts our popular Schools for Home Buyers Workshop. Free for all to attend, we share our proprietary analytics on the relationship...
Dave Larock in Monday Interest Rate Update, Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Editor's Note: Dave's Monday Morning Interest Rate Update appears on Move...
Dave Larock in Monday Interest Rate Update, Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Editor's Note: Dave's Monday Morning Interest Rate Update appears on Move...
Dave Larock in Monday Interest Rate Update, Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
This week we’ll focus on some recent currency-related news and look at...
David Larock in Monday Interest Rate Update, Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Editor's Note: Dave's Monday Morning Interest Rate Update appears on Move...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Last week the U.S. Federal Reserve replaced its pledge to keep its policy rate in a range of 0.00 to...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” - Yogi Berra.
Trying to predict the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
I have received a number of emails from readers recently asking me if this is a good time to buy a pre-construction condo...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Last Friday Statistics Canada released its latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) and it showed prices...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Toronto Real Estate News
Variable-rate mortgage discounts aren’t what they used to be and for that reason, I have tended to favour...
Realosophy Team in Realosophy News, Leslieville
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Now that the U.S. election is over, markets will shift their attention back to the European Union...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
When the Bank of Canada (BoC) released its latest interest-rate statement last Tuesday it did not...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
When Bank of Canada (BoC) Governor Mark Carney speaks, the experts I read carefully parse his words,...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Last week was a slow one for new economic data so in today’s Update I’m taking a step back and...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Every time we see a slight slowdown in the real estate market I find our agents get many of the same questions from our clients:
Why...
Thanks to the fabulous Realosophy Analytics team, Realosophy.com is now updated with the latest EQAO scores released by the Province of Ontario for 2011-12.
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Monthly employment reports should be closely monitored by anyone keeping an eye on mortgage rates...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Market bulls hoped that when U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke finally gave investors the quantitative...
John Pasalis in Toronto Schools, Home Buying, Realosophy News
When we launched realosophy.com back in 2007, we pioneered market analysis by neighbourhood in Toronto. At the time,...
A decision of the Ontario Court of Justice last week highlights the importance of buying a new home only from a registered builder, and the risks to the buyer...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
We started last week just hoping to dodge a German constitutional bullet but by the time it was over,...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Here are the three most important developments last week that related to Canadian mortgage rates:
...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their August sales statistics yesterday and while there are a couple of interesting...
Urmi Desai in Realosophy News, Toronto Real Estate News
If you use Realosophy.com, you’ve probably noticed some big changes. (If you don't, and you're interested in Toronto real...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
When U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stepped to the podium at Jackson Hole last Friday he...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Bank of Canada (BoC) Governor Mark Carney has made it clear that he wants to raise interest rates but...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
To my surprise, Government of Canada (GoC) bond yields (on which our fixed-mortgage rates are based)...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Condo Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
In June, the McGuinty government announced a public consultation process to “modernize” the 1998 Condominium Act to...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
It was a strange week for Government of Canada (GoC) bond yields (on which our fixed-mortgage rates...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
When Spanish bond yields spiked to euro-zone record highs last week I wasn’t surprised to hear the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Royal Bank of Canada published a report this week titled “Booming Toronto condo market does not imply a bubble” which offered an...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
The Bank of Canada (BoC) left its overnight policy rate unchanged last week as expected. (Reminder:...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
The devil is always in the detail.
When Spain’s 100 billion euro bailout was finalized and the euro...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board published their monthly sales statistics last week and the slow down we’ve been seeing in the real estate...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Last week federal finance minister Jim Flaherty surprised real-estate market stakeholders by...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto’s real estate market is finally starting to show some signs that things are cooling down as more houses come on the market and...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
This week’s Update was going to focus on the latest employment report from Statistics Canada and how...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
The current debate about the strength of the global economic recovery is pretty much over, at least...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The media have stepped up the real estate bubble rhetoric lately so I thought I would take some time away from the busy spring market to...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
It’s time for the powers that be to pick our poison.
Do they keep short-term interest rates at...
John Pasalis and Urmi Desai in Toronto Real Estate News, Toronto Condos
Over the past couple of years we’ve heard Mark Carney and Jim Flaherty escalate their concerns about...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
The global economic recovery is on a very tenuous footing. While determined optimists can string...
It's here: the Globe and Mail Home Value Survey. Make sure you grab today's Globe to see whether home prices are up or down in your Toronto neighbourhood.
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Last week was an interesting one for anyone keeping an eye on Canadian mortgage rates.
The Bank of...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Toronto Real Estate News
There are many good reasons to support the Toronto Real Estate Board in its battle with the federal Competition Bureau. After all,...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
When the European Central Bank (ECB) injected more than US$1 trillion in cheap, three-year loans into...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Statistics Canada released its latest employment report last Friday, and the data were a welcome...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Last week the euro-zone finance ministers increased the size of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying
Being a home buyer in Toronto's real estate market is hard work.
Every week, you eagerly wait to see the new listings that...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
This week’s update will use an ‘around the horn’ format to highlight several interesting developments...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto's real estate market quietly hit a big milestone last month. The average price for a home in the Greater Toronto Area passed the...
Realosophy Schools for Home Buyers Workshop - Starts Again Sept 2012
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
If you want to look beyond the incendiary headlines about housing bubbles in Canada’s largest real...
Worried about buying in the right school district for your family?
Worried about buying in the right school district for your family?
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Rarely does a week go by when there isn’t a new economic forecast about the real estate market. For nearly a decade, the negative...
Urmi Desai in Top Ten Neighbourhoods, Toronto Schools, Toronto Neighbourhoods, Home Buying
It’s time to get schooled!
We’ve updated www.realosophy.com with the latest 2011 EQAO...
Urmi Desai in 5 Questions, Home Buying
The blogosphere has been abuzz about “FML Listings” an anonymous blog launched by a frustrated Toronto home buyer. FML’s MO is as simple as...
The Toronto Real Estate Board's press release is below.
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The final numbers for 2011 are in and the average price for a Toronto home officially increased by 8% to $465,412 over 2010. Sales were up...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
As we say goodbye to another year, it's always instructive to take note of the year that was. What did we hope for? Worry about? And how...
Editor's Note: In our "Five Questions" series, Move Smartly bloggers get answers to the questions we'd all like to ask about Toronto real estate.
Russett...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Teranet and National Bank publish a monthly House Price Index that tracks changes in house values in a number of Canadian cities. They...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling, Real Estate Trends
The seller property disclosure statement remains a hot topic in the real estate community as Manitoba has now made them...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
TREB released their monthly sales figures last week and overall the market continues to show signs that we are moving closer to a more...
Bob Aaron in Real Estate Trends, Toronto Neighbourhoods
Toronto residents who are proud to live in areas such as Harbourfront, Davisville Village, Leslieville, Chaplin Estates,...
John Pasalis in Condo Buying, Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
If there’s one thing that concerns me about Toronto’s real estate market it's the uncertainty about the boom we...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Since June of this year Toronto's real estate market slowly started to move away from being a strong sellers market to one that is...
Realosophy Team in Realosophy News
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
One of the major misconceptions most buyers have about the real estate market is that changes in supply, demand and most importantly price...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Below is a copy of the Toronto Real Estate Board's press release with their sales figures for August 2011. The key facts:
Sales - up 21%
...
We're excited to introduce Realosophy’s revamped Neighbourhood Match tool, our "eHarmony" for Toronto neighbourhoods. Thanks to the hard work of our...
Urmi Desai in Realosophy News, Real Estate Trends, Entrepreneurism
Realosophy was in the Toronto Star over the weekend which was great fun. It was particularly exciting that the...
Purchasing power parity is an economic theory that helps us understand how overvalued or undervalued currencies are by comparing their currencies purchasing power for identical...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto real estate sales continued their hot pace recording a 23% increase in July 2011 over the same month last year. The month's actual...
John Pasalis and Urmi Desai in Real Estate Trends
If you thought Round One was interesting, Round Two will blow you away.
After reaching a settlement with the Canadian Real...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
An increase in the demand for homes and a decline in the number of houses available for sale pushed prices up 10% in June when compared to...
The town of Port Hope, featured two weeks ago in a Saturday Star story on the impact of low-level nuclear contamination affecting local homeowners, is not the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The big story for Toronto’s real estate market in May was the big decline in homes available for sale. There were 27% fewer homes...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The average price for a Toronto home rose 9% in April 2011 over the same month last year. This price increase was largely driven by a...
Urmi Desai in Five Questions, Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying
Editor's Note: In our "Five Questions" series, Move Smartly bloggers get answers to the questions we'd all...
Urmi Desai in Real Estate Marketing, Realosophy News
Want to kill a few hours? Tell someone you’re thinking about how to price a good or service and ask for their thoughts. (Make...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In my monthly market update last week I showed that strong demand for homes coupled with a decline in the supply of houses coming on the...
Urmi Desai in Realosophy News, Real Estate Marketing
Papa's got a brand new bag! Head over to realosophy.com to check out our new look!
(Tell us what you think! If you love the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The number of home sales in the Greater Toronto Area in March 2011 declined by 11% over the same month last year to 9,262 while the...
Bob Aaron in Real Estate Trends, Legal
At any given time, at least some of the courts in Ontario are occupied with disputes between neighbours. Based on the current law reports...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In last month's market update I looked at whether Toronto real estate prices were heading up or down by comparing conflicting figures...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying, Toronto Neighbourhoods
“Where is the next up and coming neighbourhood?” has to be the question I’m most often asked by home...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Are Toronto real estate prices on the way up or on the way down? That’s the question we’ll be tackling today by looking at house price...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In 2006 the Canada’s federal government extended the maximum allowable amortization for a mortgage from 25 years to 40 years. This...
What a great time we had at Realosophy's Thank You party @ Leslieville Wanderlust last week. Thank you to our clients, neighbours, friends and...
Realosophy Team in Realosophy News
John Pasalis in Toronto Condos and Lofts
Just released from Urbanation:
Urbanation, Inc., the leading source of information and analysis for the condominium market in the Toronto...
John Pasalis and Urmi Desai in Toronto Real Estate News
On Sunday, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) voted in favour of a deal reached with the federal Competition...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto real estate sales during the first two weeks of October were down 17% over the same time last year. The number of new listings...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The average price for a Toronto home increased by 5% in September over the same month last year to $427,329.
You can see all the monthly...
David Larock in Mortgages and Finance, Toronto Real Estate News
This has not been your garden variety global recession. For starters, it began with the bursting of a giant credit...
Virtually all agreements of purchase and sale for homes or condominiums in Ontario are prepared on standard forms published by the Ontario Real Estate...
UPDATE - 12:18PM - Unfortunately, John's online chat with the Globe and Mail and consumers @ noon today was canceled due to technical difficulties at the Globe. But since...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
It was a relatively quiet August for Toronto’s real estate market with the number of sales for the month falling 22% over the same month...
John Pasalis in Five Questions, Toronto Real Estate News, Mortgages and Finance
Editor's Note: "Five Questions For" is a periodic series in which Move Smartly bloggers get answers...
Realosophy in Toronto Real Estate News, Toronto Condos and Lofts
From Urbanation's Q2-2010 market overview and press release of August 3rd:
New condominium sales of 4,991 in...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Editor's Note: Due to spam and trolling issues, Move Smartly's comments have been disabled. But we still want to hear from you! Please...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto home sales continued to slide in June. The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 8,442 home sales in June, a 23% decline over the same month...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
In case you haven’t heard, we’re in a real estate bubble! Well, at least according to Toronto Life.
In their current Real Estate Issue, Toronto...
John in Toronto Real Estate News, Toronto Neighbourhoods
The slowdown in Toronto's real estate market continued in May with sales actually dropping by 1% over the same month last...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
For the average home buyer, making sense of Toronto’s real estate market is not easy. We often read conflicting media reports about the market...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
For the first time since 2008 the growth in new listings coming on the market in April exceeded the growth in sales. A significant turning point...
Realosophy in Toronto Real Estate News, Toronto Condos and Lofts
From Urbanation's Q1-2010 market overview and press release today:
Urbanation Editor and Executive Vice...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
From the Teranet National Bank House Price Index:
Canadian home prices in February were up 9.9% from a year earlier, according to the...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
From the Canadian Real Estate Association's Press Release:
Homebuyers have more choice heading into the busy spring buying season, with new...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Since May 2009 the number of houses coming on the market for sale in Toronto has been on the decline while the demand from buyers measured by the...
John and Urmi in Toronto Real Estate News
Like many of you, we’ve been following the Competition Bureau’s decision to challenge the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)’s MLS...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
It seems as though any time house prices are on the rise in Toronto, regardless of how modest the increase might be, Torontonians are...
MoveSmartly blogger Bob Aaron was featured on CBC's Marketplace as host Erica Johnson invistigated complaints regarding "Rich Dad" real estate seminars.
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto and Vancouver have Canada’s hottest real estate market according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price figures released this...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The average price for a Toronto home increased by 4% in 2009 to $395,460, the 13th straight year house values have increased in Toronto.
...
Below is a list of the ten most viewed blog posts for 2009 on Move Smartly, beginning with the most popular post.
The following charts show a year-over-year analysis of various Toronto real estate metrics. The statistics are based on sales figures published by the Toronto Real Estate Board...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board’s November Market Watch report showed the first sign that some relief might be on the way for Toronto home...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying Tips
The Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) recently published a brochure with some consumer focused information about...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Real Estate Trends
In case you missed the headlines earlier this week, after a two-year investigation into Canada’s real estate brokerage...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto real estate prices increased by 9.4% in just four months according to the Teranet National Bank House Price Index.
The House...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
There are a lot of factors at play when it comes to the current shortage in housing supply that we are seeing in Toronto.
From...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their monthly Market Watch report yesterday and the numbers aren't very encouraging. We are...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their monthly Market Watch report for August showing 8,035 home sales in August - a 27% increase...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported a record 9,967 resale home sales for July, a 28% increase over the same month last year. Average...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
When Toronto’s real estate market started to pick up in April it was encouraging to see that many Toronto home buyers were taking a very...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 10,995 sales in June 2009, a 27% increase over the same month in the previous year and the highest...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
From the Canadian Real Estate Association's Press Release:
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area increased by almost 2% to 9,589 in May 2009, the first monthly increase since December 2007....
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying Tips
Toronto’s condo market is on solid ground according to a recent research paper published by Scotiabank Economics....
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) recently released two new commercials as part of their "How Realtors Help" ad campaign. I ...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 8,107 sales in April 2009, down 7% from the same month in the previous year. The average price for...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
February 2009 marked the sixth straight monthly decline for the Teranet National Bank House Price Index for Canada. Canadian home prices...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The overall mood about the current state of Toronto’s real estate market typically depends on the two most commonly reported statistics in...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their March sales statistics yesterday and they appear to be encouraged by the fact that sales are...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Canadian home prices fell 2.4% in January 2009 led by declines in Calgary (-8.2%) and Vancouver (-4.2%). The Teranet-National Bank House...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 2,565 transactions in the first half of March 2009, a 19% drop from the 3,183 transactions reported...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The recent slowdown in Toronto’s real estate market has left many people wondering where the market is heading leading up to the busy...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Fellow real estate blogger Richard Silver has the inside scoop on TREB's February sales statistics.
The Toronto Real Estate Board recorded...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Canadian house prices in December 2008 were down just .6% from a year earlier, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index....
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In the past 18 months 700 Ontario homes have been insulated with a prohibited type of insulation called urea formaldehyde-based thermal...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Under normal circumstances, a 26% decline in real estate sales is not something to be excited about. But these are not normal...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Over the past couple of months the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) has issued a freeze order, freezing the accounts of three...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 3,433 condominium rentals in the Greater Toronto Area from September to December 2008, a 30%...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Canada's Home Renovation Tax Credit (HRTC) was introduced as part of the 2009 federal budget and was just one of several measures...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto real estate sales declined by 50% during the first half of January 2009, continuing a sales slide that started in October 2008.
...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about a new Canadian House Price Index launched by National Bank and Teranet. I thought I would...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Using a simple average to measure the change in real estate values can present a number of problems. I have covered these issues in ...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
RBC Economics says that Canada is experiencing a “Canadian-style” housing downturn but will avoid a US style housing market crash. The...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board recorded 3,640 sales in the Greater Toronto Area for November 2008, a 50% decline over the 7,313 recorded in...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
For the past couple of months I have been cautioning our readers against making any big conclusions about Toronto’s real estate market...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
For those who missed the headlines last week, the Toronto Real Estate Board announced their bleak sales figures for October 2008. The...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying Tips
In May of this year the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released an optimistic report on Toronto's...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The average price for a home in the city of Toronto dropped by 15% during the first half of October, eclipsing the 6% decline we saw last...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying Tips
The past ten years have been kind to home buyers and real estate speculators who invested in pre-construction...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
After a slight decline in new listings in August, we saw new listings climb 19% over 2007 levels in September and 6% over the volume we...
John Pasalis in Real Estate Trends
CEP News interviewed me several weeks ago for a story about a home buyer who decided to purchase a house with a rental unit as a way to spend a...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Toronto’s real estate bubble in the late 1980’s left a grave mark on the city. Those who didn’t lose money in the bubble probably knew...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Real estate sales in the Greater Toronto Area for the first half of September declined to 2,726 a 16% drop over the record set during the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
In April of this year I indicated that my outlook for Toronto’s real estate market was neither bullish nor bearish. I said that Toronto...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
When I reported last month that real estate prices increased by just $298 in July 2008, I wondered when Toronto would see its first...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Many of our readers have been a bit concerned about the rise in inventory (homes available for sale) in Toronto’s real estate market. The...
There’s a new way to search for houses online in Canada, and it’s not Realtor.ca.
Zoocasa, a Canadian real estate search site backed by Rogers...
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John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
When economists see a significant and sustained deviation from recent trends in data, they try to find the factor(s) that may have...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Sales continue to slide in Toronto's real estate market. 3,019 homes were sold in the Greater Toronto Area during the first half of...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Updated (3:49pm 8/14/2008) :The Toronto Real Estate Board’s Market Watch reports for May and December of 2007 incorrectly swapped the...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Some interesting numbers from the Toronto Real Estate Board this month.
The average sale price for a home in the City of Toronto last...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
A few months ago I did a live online Q&A on globeandmail.com where I had the opportunity to answer questions about Toronto’s real estate...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Last week we released our Q1 2008 Move Smartly Housing Report which offers a detailed summary of real estate sales by neighbourhood....
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Here are the latest numbers from the Toronto Real Estate Board:
Moderate activity and strong prices continued to characterize the Greater...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
One of our reasons for launching realosophy.com was to educate consumers about some of the not so nice things that can go on in the real...
John Pasalis in Real Estate Trends
I am a pretty loyal user of Google Maps but over the past few months I have been using Microsoft’s Live Maps when I want to map houses or...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The latest numbers from the Toronto Real Estate Board:
Download the Complete Market Watch Report
The trend toward more balanced market...
John Pasalis in Real Estate Trends
The Globe and Mail interviewed me for an article published this weekend about a local real estate site called Housing123.com that the Canadian...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The story for Toronto’s real estate market continues to be consistent half way through June. Prices continue to rise and sales continue to...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board recorded 9,411 sales in the Greater Toronto Area in May 2008, a 16% decline over last year. Prices increased...
John Pasalis in Real Estate Trends
I just came across a Forbes article covering the world's first billion dollar home. The home is being built for Indian billionaire and fifth...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Condo Buying Tips
Last week I raised a couple of concerns about a recent Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) report that had...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their sales figures for the first half of May 2008 and the statistics continue to show a softer...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Two housing reports released this week have been making headlines across the country. The reports from Scotiabank and CMHC are forecasting...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Earlier this week Realosophy.com released their first Quarterly Move Smartly Housing Report to subscribers.
The Realosophy team is...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their sales for April 2008. It wasn't much of a surprise to see that sales declined 7% in April...
John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News
Last Friday I was invited to answer questions about Toronto’s real estate market in a live online discussion on globeandmail.com. I...
Rachel Loizos in Real Estate Trends
A recent article in DreamHomes & Condominiums magazine highlighted one of the most interesting trends in real estate that I have seen in...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Resale home sales in the Greater Toronto Area are down 5% in the first half of April compared to the same period last year. This is an increase...
Bob Aaron in Legal, Home Selling Tips, Toronto Real Estate News
Ed. Note. We are pleased to welcome Bob Aaron, a Toronto real estate law expert, to Move Smartly. A leading ...
Carl in Home Buying, Home Selling Tips, Real Estate Trends
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to show you the greatest Real Estate brokerage offer ever made…all your investment and...
Rachel in Legal, Real Estate Trends
Some new developments are coming to pass in the legal world as it relates to real estate. You may or may not know that the province of...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
There were a couple of reports yesterday that are sure to make the average home buyers head spin.
While the Toronto Real Estate Board announced a...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Here are the latest numbers from the Toronto Real Estate Board.
Low inventory levels kept the Greater Toronto Area resale housing market brisk but...
Ed. Note. Move Smartly is pleased to welcome Carl Minicucci and his insightful commentary to our blog. Carl is a sales representative with Humber Valley Realty in Vaughan and is...
As we move towards our first anniversary, the team at Move Smartly invites you to consider blogging with us.
John in Toronto Real Estate News
The Toronto Real Estate Board released their statistics for the first half of March and it's no surprise to hear that sales in the GTA are down...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Here's is the latest press release from the Toronto Real Estate Board:
Resale home transactions in the Greater Toronto Area continued at a...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
There’s a new book on the market that is sure to satisfy Toronto real estate bubble theorists. While I haven’t read it yet, recent media reports...
John in Condo Buying Tips, Legal
A couple of months ago, CBCs’ Marketplace had a great feature that highlighted many of the problems that buyers of new condominiums are faced...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Real estate sales rebounded slightly in the second half of February according to the Toronto Real Estate Board. Resale sales were down 14% during...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Urbancorp, the developer behind West Side Lofts and Bridge Condos, is Toronto’s first condo developer to leverage Facebook’s new advertising...
Heather in HomeBuying, Money
RRSP season is here and at this time of year, Canadians grapple with issues about finding money to contribute, deciding what to invest in, and...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Any time a realtor represents a family member in a real estate transaction, this relationship must be disclosed to all parties involved. Being...
Rachel in Real Estate Trends
The recent, tragic death of B.C. realtor Lindsay Buziak highlights the security risks that face those in the real estate industry. My heart goes out...
After months of work, I’m excited that the Realosophy team has added some great updates to our site. One of our goals when we first started was to help...
Urmi in Urban Issues
Ed. Note: Thanks to a sharp reader for pointing out that the total area of the David Dunlap Observatory Lands is 190 acres, not 90 acres as originally...
John in Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
In a previous post I addressed the one question that’s on most first time buyers minds; is now the right time to buy my first home?...
Rachel in Legal, HomeBuying
A recent article highlights one of the most valuable and often glossed over part of your real estate transaction - relationships. Reported in the Globe...
John in Toronto Condos and Lofts, Toronto Real Estate News
John in HomeBuying, Toronto Real Estate News
It’s a tough time to be a first-time home buyer in Toronto. Toronto’s eleven year real estate boom has left many first time buyers...
The team at Move Smartly would like to thank you, our readers, for a wonderful first year. We look forward to bringing you more original analysis and stories about your HomeBuying...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
REM, a Canadian real estate industry publication, reports that discount brokerage Realtysellers is suing the Toronto Real Estate Board for $41...
Jesse in Toronto Neighbourhoods
During my directionally challenged tour of Fairbank, I accidentally ended up in its western neighbour of Keelesdale (check out Realosophy's...
Urmi in Toronto Real Estate News, Urban Issues, Lifestyle
Some good news on the housing front for recent immigrants to Canada has me thinking about integration issues this week....
John in Home Buying, Legal
Multiple offers on homes are a common occurrence in Toronto’s hot real estate market. For those unfamiliar with the dynamics of a multiple offer, go to
John in Home Buying, Media Roundup
Home Information Packs (HIPs) were introduced in the UK this past summer as a way to improve transparency in the HomeBuying process. HIPs...
Jesse in Condo Buying, Legal, Lifestyle
You have found your ideal condominium. It may be a conversion of sorts, a shiny high-rise in a tony neighbourhood or one of the row house...
John in Money, Media Roundup
Rob Carrick from the Globe and Mail had a great article last week that highlighted the effects the US subprime mortgage collapse is having on Canadian...
Jesse in Toronto Neighbourhoods
Getting lost in one’s own neighbourhood takes dedication and skill. Having moved to the neighbourhood of Fairbank (check out Realosophy’s...
Jesse in Toronto Neighbourhoods, Toronto Condos and Lofts
A short while, I had lamented on Toronto’s seemingly lack of recognition to buildings that were erected during its...
John in Condo Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
Now that the dust has settled on the insanity that was the 1 Bloor broker preview, we can start asking what the future holds for...
John in Home Buying
Real estate agents have a saying; a well-listed property is half-sold. The term ‘well-listed’ refers to the information the listing agent entered into the MLS...
In my last post, I provided an overview of options designed to aid Home Sellers when they decide to sell and list their home. I compared hiring professional...
Urmi in Toronto Real Estate News
Nice to know that my spidey-sense is more than a caffeine-induced health emergency. At the start of this week, I was curious as to why developers...
Rachel in Home Buying, Toronto Real Estate News
I am sharing the correspondence I received from Councillor Thompson and Councillor Minnan-Wong. Prior to the vote held on Monday...
House Porn. Catchy isn’t it? The words definitely caught my eye while perusing the Lifestyle section of The Globe and Mail. At once I began to reminisce about...
Urmi in Urban Issues, Toronto Real Estate News
A Bay St. heavyweight's startling prediction for Toronto's real estate market will worry HomeBuyers looking to become a part of the...
A few weeks ago, I basked in the delicious heat on what City News described as a “whopping 32C"on Thanksgiving Monday in Toronto. Sweltering heat created a...
Rachel in Urban Issues, Home Buying, Legal, Money
Councillor Thompson dropped a stack of over 1,000 sheets of paper at the start of the meeting and announced they represented ‘no’...
John in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying
The victims of a phantom (or fake) multiple offer recently came forward to tell their story to Toronto Star reporter Gail Swainson....
John and Urmi in Urban Issues, Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying
With a major tax vote just around the corner, Mayor David Miller hasn’t exactly convinced Toronto that his ...
John in HomeBuying, Money, Toronto Real Estate News, Real Insight
Ed note. Real Insight is a periodic feature decoding some of the many mysteries surrounding HomeBuying.
Some of...
Rachel in HomeBuying, Legal, Real Insight
Ed note. Real Insight is a periodic feature decoding some of the many mysteries surrounding HomeBuying.
Any number of factors can...
Jesse in Lifestyle, Condos, In the News
A few months ago, a fabulous brochure landed in my mailbox. Printed on high-quality, lustrous paper it captivated me with everything that...
Jesse in Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhood Explorer
York University’s Keele campus is a daunting collection of all that is academia. Student housing complexes tower over low-rise,...
Rachel in HomeBuying, Legal, Real Insight
Ed note. Real Insight is a periodic feature decoding some of the many mysteries surrounding HomeBuying.
When you purchase your home, you...
A small headline on the bottom of the first page of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business section grabbed my attention. Amidst all of the excitement about...
Urmi in HomeBuying, Lifestyle
In order to write great fiction, Virginia Woolf opined back in 1928, a woman must have “money and a room of her own.” In observing the limited...
John in HomeBuying, Money, Lifestyle, Real Life
Ed note. Real Life is a periodic feature detailing stories about the situations HomeBuyers encounter in the real world.
A reader...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Here are the latest housing stats, in the words of the Toronto Real Estate Board:
September 20, 2007 -- With 3,236 sales so far this month,...
John in Realosophy News, HomeBuying
The absence of consumer protection in the real estate industry was one of the main reasons our team started Realosophy. HomeBuyers are the most...
Urmi in HomeBuying, Money, Toronto Real Estate News, In the News
No wonder consumers are confused when it comes to HomeBuying – apparently, they are not the only ones. Departing...
John in Money, HomeBuying, Real Insight, In the News
Ed note. Real Insight is a periodic feature decoding some of the many mysteries surrounding HomeBuying.
Last weekend’s...
Urmi in Neighbourhoods, Lifestyle, Condos, In the News
Urban planning enthralls me, like so many others, because it holds out that tantalizing promise of agency, that assertion...
Rachel in Condos, HomeBuying, Money
When you purchase a new home or condominium, on your statement of adjustments, there will be a section that references realty taxes (also known...
My head was spinning after hearing the latest eco-friendly, organically inspired gadgets debuted on the morning news. Geared towards HomeOwners who are trying...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
Here are the latest housing stats, in the words of the Toronto Real Estate Board:
August 2007 became the fifth record-setting month in a row,...
Jesse in Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhood Explorer
Growing up in a suburb east of Toronto, I was unaware of the weight some neighbourhoods carried when their names were uttered. “You...
John in HomeBuying, Toronto Real Estate News
Talk about real estate in Toronto usually centers on the city’s booming housing market. For the past seven years, we’ve been hearing...
Rachel in Condos, HomeBuying, Legal, Money
Nothing sends clients reeling like the statement of adjustments on a new condominium closing, except, perhaps the statement of...
June 2010 - Editor's Note: Due to spam and trolling issues, Move Smartly's comments have been disabled. But we still want to hear from you! Please feel free to send our writers...
John in Toronto Real Estate News, Legal
An article in the Globe and Mail this weekend tells the story of a handful of investors who pre-purchased condominium suites at the now...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
I came across a New York Times article this weekend that outlines the lending practices of one of the US's largest mortgage lenders, Countrywide...
Urmi in HomeBuying, Money
For the longest time, I put off one of the first steps any potential HomeBuyer is advised to take: get one with your credit score or rating. For most of...
Rezen is a new condominium project currently under construction at the corner of Frederick and Adelaide, just west of Sherbourne. This condo is a short walk from...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
The persistence of Toronto’s red hot real estate market has left many HomeBuyers wondering if things are ever going to slow down. The US real...
Jesse in Neighbourhood Explorer, Neighbourhoods
Almost at the foot of the Allen Road Expressway lies a quiet collection of houses just south of Lawrence - the neighbourhood of...
Rachel in Legal, HomeBuying, Condos
There is a very interesting period during the purchase of a new condominium that resembles something between ownership and renting...known as...
John in Real Insight, HomeBuying
Ed note. Real Insight is a periodic feature decoding some of the many mysteries surrounding HomeBuying.
A couple I know was recently given the...
Urmi in Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhood Explorer
Ed. Note. Kicking off a day of free celebrations at Bathurst and Bloor this past Sunday, Mayor David Miller officially declared...
Rumor has it that Boutique Condos will be adding an additional 16 floors on top of its Phase 2 condo at the corners of Nelson and Simcoe in Toronto's ...
Jesse in Neighbourhood Explorer, Neighbourhoods
Although I frequently visit Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan, I have never taken the time to really explore the area (see Realosophy's Tam...
Urmi in HomeBuying, Neighbourhoods, Lifestyle
“So,” Paul concluded, pausing to swirl his caesar-with-extra-horseradish, “I believe I live in the Upper Upper West Annex.” Seated...
John in Toronto Real Estate News
New stats reveal that Toronto’s red hot real estate market is showing no signs of slowing down. July’s 8,912 total sales is a 26 percent increase...
Jesse in Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhood Explorer
Ed. Note. Neighbourhood Explorer is a regular feature in which our intrepid adventurer presents an up close-and-personal tour of a...
Urmi in HomeBuying, In the News, Toronto Real Estate News
Thanks to council's decision not to decide, heated discussions about David Miller, Millerites (the crew not the brew) and...
Urmi in Neighbourhoods, HomeBuying, Lifestyle
Being a bit of a news wire junkie, provocative headlines tend to catch my eye: “Ottawa ranked best place to live in Canada.” Before...
Rachel in Legal, Condos, HomeBuying, Real Insight
Ed note. Real Insight is a periodic feature decoding some of the many mysteries surrounding HomeBuying.
A very dear friend of...
John in HomeBuying, Toronto Real Estate News
An article in the Toronto Star this weekend highlights one HomeBuyer’s experience competing in four bidding wars (multiple offers)....
How would you like the purchase of your new home to translate into clawing back some of your hard-earned dollars – and from the government? Very much, I think....
John in HomeBuying
Many HomeBuyers have a difficult time deciding on the type of home and neighbourhood they want to live in. Couples often have an even harder time because both...
Welcome to realosophy.com! We hope that you are as excited as we are about our new Toronto HomeBuyer’s website.
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