Sales on the Toronto Real Estate Board continued their downward trend. In September there were just 4,642 sales – 7.1% lower than last September and 12.1% lower than August. Last month we said prices (which have been supported by a lack of listings) are about to drop further. Active listings are now 40% higher than this time last year...
Sales on TREEB have continued to weaken. For August there were 5,294 sales. This was 5.2% lower than in August of last year and even in July. Usually, sales in August are higher than July.
So far prices have remained steady, but we believe that is about to change. A lack of new listings kept prices from falling. But in August, new l...
Sales for July were 5,250 on TRREB which are weak. They are 29% lower than for June (but 8% higher than July of last year). What to take away from these numbers? Not much. August sales are usually higher than sales for July. When we look at daily showings both on TRREB, and for our own Brokerages, the monthly changes from July to Augus...
Sales on the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board were 7481 in June. We are supposed to be excited that they were 16% higher than June of 2022. But they were also down 17% from May. In fact, June sales are lower than the previous 4 years.
At the mid-point of the year, we are now forecasting 73,000 sales for the year. This is based on...
Sales for May on TRREB were 24% higher than in May of 2022. This is the first month this year that sales were higher than the same month in 2022. At 9,012 sales this will be the biggest sales month in 2023. How do we know? April, May, or June are normally the biggest sales months of the year. But in early June the Bank of Canada rai...
Sales reached 7,531 on TRREB for April. This number was 5.2% lower than April of 2022 but 9.3% higher than March. We will start again to compare year-over-year numbers. Why? From April of 2022 onwards, when markets corrected, real estate markets have now become comparable. For sales in May, you can be certain that 2023 will be bigge...