Realosophy Team in Media Roundup, Toronto Real Estate News
All you need to know regarding the housing market in Toronto, Canada and abroad.
This week in Toronto: Condos buck Canada's housing crunch, luxury home sales are set to rebound and the market feels the effect of the foreign-buyers tax.
Elsewhere: Worries about proposed mortgage rules changes in Canada, one U.S housing forecast predicts a decline in new demand and a study finds Europe's Muslims are hampered by prejudice in the housing market.
Toronto
Toronto condos buck Canada housing crunch, but prices seen cooling (Reuters)
Sales of $4 million-plus Toronto homes poised to rebound (Toronto Star)
It predicts "a brisk and active top-tier real estate market" in the fall, despite a pervasive plunge in home sales volumes this summer. "Toronto is to Canada what a combination of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are to the U.S.," said Sotheby’s CEO Brad Henderson.
Toronto housing market feels effect of foreign-buyers tax (The Globe and Mail)
Purchases of Toronto homes by foreign buyers dropped over the summer after a new tax in Ontario began targeting international property investment, falling from 7.2 per cent of sales in May to 5.6 per cent of homes sold over the three months ending in August.
Toronto Community Housing CEO Kathy Milsom says she’s ready for the challenges ahead (The Star)
“When you look at the organization, you look at the number of people we’re responsible for — it’s 4 per cent of Toronto’s population — and the opportunity to really make a difference, to me it resonated both professionally and personally at this stage in my career.”
Toronto-area family on the hook for $37K commission after failed home purchase (CTV)
After reassessing their finances over the summer, the Mastroiannis decided to walk away and not close the home purchase. They knew they would lose their deposit, but they didn’t realize they would be on the hook for so much more.
Canada
Proposed Mortgage Rules Will Reduce Your Home-Buying Power By 21%: Report (Huffington Post)
A proposal by Canada's banking regulator to expand "stress tests" for mortgage borrowers will reduce how much house Canadians can afford by 21 per cent, says a new report from mortgage comparison site Ratehub.
Housing risks 'could even threaten financial stability' in Canada: OECD (Financial Post)
Canada’s economy will grow at a faster clip than expected in 2017, a new report says, but an overheated housing market still threatens to bulldoze optimism over rosy economic data in recent quarters.
I Don't Envy The Politician Who Tries To Sort Out Canada's Housing Mess (Huffington Post)
The biggest dilemma our government and elected officials face is between keeping housing affordable, while not reducing the housing equity of Canadian homeowners.
Europe’s Muslims risk exclusion from the labour and housing markets, as concerns grow that their names or choice of dress are a cause of discrimination by employers and landlords, according to a study of the continent’s second-largest religious group.
September 22, 2017
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