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Toronto House Prices

Artificial Home-Sale Bidding Wars Taking Us For A Ride?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.03.2013 | Canada Business

It’s fair to say that many people looking at Toronto’s housing market have been experiencing a sort of prolonged “WTF” moment, as they watch h...

Housing Slump Over? Don't Bet On It

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.20.2013 | Canada Business

With housing sales numbers stronger than expected at the start of this year, many of the more optimistic housing market observers were hoping that the...

Another Schizophrenic Month In The Country's Largest Housing Market

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 01.04.2013 | Canada Business

It was another confusing month in Toronto’s booming — or is it crashing? — housing market, with home sales dropping a precipitous 19.5 per cent ...

House Price Declines Go Nationwide

The Huffington Post Canada | David Paddon, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.18.2013 | Canada Business

The total number of Toronto home sales dropped some 55 per cent in November from a year earlier, according to real estate research firm BILD. Thoug...

New House Prices Keep Rising: StatsCan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.12.2013 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says its price index for new housing rose 0.2 per cent in October.The agency says the combined metropolitan region of Toron...

Is A Flawed Database Driving Up House Prices?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 10.11.2012 | Canada Business

Canada’s government-run mortgage insurer is downplaying a news report that its method of collecting house price data may be causing prices to spike....

Wow: Home Prices Still Rising

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says its new housing price index rose 0.2 per cent in August, after a 0.1 per cent increase in July.The combined metropolit...

Toronto Home Sales Collapse By 70 Per Cent: Report

Posted 09.25.2012 | Canada Business

House sales in Toronto experienced a 70-per-cent collapse in August, the trade industry group BILD reports. The news comes as debate reaches a feve...

B.C. Housing Bubble Worse Than California’s: U.S. Market Guru

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.10.2012 | Canada British Columbia

Vancouver’s housing bubble is more extreme today than California’s was a few years ago, says one of the U.S.’s most renowned housing market anal...

Catastrophe Or Boom Times? Depends On Whom You Ask

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.06.2012 | Canada Business

Whether Canada’s real estate market is among the strongest and most resilient in the world, or whether it is on the precipice of a major correction,...

Rachel Mendleson

Dreams Of First Home Slipping Away For Young Canadians

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Business

In some respects, Katrina Armstrong has chosen to have a family over owning a family home. She and her husband, who share a two-bedroom rented apa...

Vancouver, Toronto Drag Down House Pries: CREA

CP | Posted 08.16.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO -- Home sales across the country declined marginally last month, continuing a recent trend toward a gradual cooling in what had been a red hot...

Canada's Housing Market To Stay Down For A Decade: Scotia

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 08.13.2012 | Canada Business

Canada’s house prices are expected to drop and stay down for a decade, says a new report from Scotiabank that also warns of an “adverse shock” t...

How Much Are Toronto, Vancouver Homes Overpriced?

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 06.11.2012 | Canada Business

Home prices in Toronto and Vancouver are going to drop by around 15 per cent over the next two to three years, says a report from TD Bank which also w...

Toronto Leads Country In Yet Another House Price Jump

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Toronto and Calgary led the country in rising home prices last month, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.The MLS Home Price In...

Vancouver Falls; Could Toronto's Bubble Be Next?

CBC | Posted 07.04.2012 | Canada Business

Prices continue to rise in Canada's two largest real estate markets, but a closer look at the numbers shows two housing markets headed in...

Calgary, Toronto See Another House Price Spike

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.27.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Home prices crept higher in March as a slowing Vancouver market was offset by an acceleration in prices in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal, acc...

Toronto's Housing Boom Not Done By A Longshot: Credit Union

CP | Posted 04.20.2012 | Canada Business

TORONTO -- A new report says home prices in Ontario will continue to rise through 2014 thanks to steady economic growth and low interest rates. Cre...

Rachel Mendleson

Rich Buyers Driving Up Everyone's Home Prices In Toronto: Sotheby's

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 04.13.2012 | Canada Business

High-income buyers are a driving force behind Toronto’s booming housing market, fuelling demand for an extremely limited supply of properties in des...

House Prices Up Again -- Except In This Formerly Booming Market

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the price of a brand new house rose 0.3 per cent in February from the previous month, following a 0.1 per cent rise in...

House Prices Rise In Major Cities

CBC | Posted 04.07.2012 | Canada

Price increases in three major Canadian housing markets pushed the Canadian Real Estate Association's home price index higher in January ...

What $350,000 Will Buy You In These Canadian Housing Markets

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 11.21.2011 | Canada Business

Can't afford a house? Consider a move to St. John's Newfoundland, where the price of a Toronto condo will buy you a McMansion. It's hardly a surpri...

Ontario's Growth Plan Is Working, But Not Well Enough

Claire Malcolmson | Posted 10.27.2011 | Canada
Claire Malcolmson

The lack of affordable housing in Toronto drives demand for suburban housing and this threatens the implementation of the Growth Plan. To prevent social and environmental collapse, we need to link sprawl-related environmental issues with affordability.