Toronto and GTA

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.

All Toronto area regions saw sales grow by double digits - except for Halton.

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?

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?

Condos have helped to prop up a drooping real estate market in the Toronto area - but has demand for them started to cool?

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...

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?

One of the questions I get often from buyers is how house prices can remain stable while sales are declining and inventory is increasing? 

With Toronto Area condo 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...

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 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...

John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying

In my last blog post (The GTA Neighbourhoods Home Buyers Should Avoid), I walked through a metric we use at Realosophy to...

John Pasalis in Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying

I recently stopped by TVO’s The Agenda to discuss the latest market stats with the Toronto Star’s Tess Kalinowski, and...

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.