Sales on TRREB for February were 4,783. That is down 47% from February of 2022 but up 55% from January. In 2022, the January to February uptake was 61% or very similar. Month to month comparisons are more important because cyclical changes are more critical than seasonal at this time. So, when will year over year comparisons become mea...
Sales on TRREB for January were 3100 units. Almost identical to December’s numbers. Have we reached the bottom of the sales cycle which started in April and trended straight down. Our answer is yes. Sales can’t get any lower based on our population, but the real question is how high will the peak be for the Spring market? Historically...
The real estate market in 2021 and up to March of 2022 was clearly unsustainable. The Bank of Canada was late to correct inflation and to deal with interest rates which were basically zero. Starting in March, they began to overcompensate in both areas and the result was the start of a market correction that no one...
Sales for October on TRREB matched those of September and August. When you consider the normal seasonality of the market, our guess is that we have reached the bottom of the sales cycle. This represents a 49% drop in sales compared to the same month in 2021.
Prices are a different matter. All property types have given back all the ga...
Last month in our Toronto Condo Market Update, we commented on the uptick in sales for August on TRREB. We wondered whether this was a turning point. The answer was no. Sales in September were 5038 which was a drop of 10% from August. We are now tracking for the lowest sales numbers since 2002 when the GTA was 30% lower by populatio...
We are fast coming to a reckoning with this market. The uptick in sales in August on TRREB may be a sign of reaching the bottom of this market, or is it just a ‘dead cat bounce’? While sales in August were still off by 34% from those of a year ago, they were 15% higher than in July. Normally July sales are always bigger than those i...