I’m going to cut right to the chase and say that it seems these days, the bank and their appraisers are not your friend. If you are actively searching for a house or condo and working with a qualified Realtor™ (I’ll leave it up to you as a Buyer to do your due diligence on […]

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I recently attended a housing market forecast on the Toronto Real Estate Market put on by the Welbanks mortgage group in conjunction with Genworth Canada. Now I typically attend 2-3 of these type of information sessions annually but this was the first where I could recall the statement being said that, “Toronto could become a […]

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A few days ago the Toronto Real Estate Board posted it’s January sales numbers and surprise surprise, sales volume was down drastically year over year in comparison to January 2017. This came as no shock to me. For those who remember last January (and February and March) sales prices were defying logic and it didn’t […]

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Well for starters, it must be said that we are living through interesting times in that with all of the changes brought into play over the past three years to cool the GTA’s hot housing market, changes which many forecasted would knock the sails out of sales (I couldn’t resist), we are still witnessing an […]

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In brief, 2017 saw an impressive 92,394 sales across the Toronto Real Estate Board which clocks in as the 4th best year ever re: sales volume. Average prices across the board rose as a whole to $822,681 (almost a 13% increase over 2016). Almost all of the growth was seen over the first 4 months […]

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The Ontario government recently passed changes to the Ontario Consumers Act which strengthens consumers with regard to large purchases made. Two of the changes have affect on the real estate industry, and are long overdue and more than welcomed in my opinion. One change is to how “multiple representation” is handled in a real estate […]

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With annual average price gains up 8.25% in October 2017 over the same month last year, the 416 area of Toronto continues to be on fire with healthy increases in value. But if we dig down and take a closer look into the numbers, a different story starts to appear. Detached values are actually off […]

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The much talked about “Stress-Test” rules talked about over the summer by OSFI have been made official, and will take effect January 1st, 2018. Many suspect this will have an almost immediate impact in the Toronto housing market which Government’s of all levels have been trying to cool with limited effect on fast increasing house […]

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With the month of September behind us and looking at the statistics provided by the Toronto Real Estate Board, the overall market looks to be heading into a more balanced territory. September’s Sales-to-New Listings ratio was similar to those of May, June and July, which were all off from the torrid pace set at the […]

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A rule already in place for insured mortgage borrowers (those that purchase with typically less than 20% as a down payment) could soon be coming to all mortgage borrowers. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) is contemplating brining in changes that will make it mandatory that all mortgage borrowers go through a “Stress […]

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