The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 87,308 MLS® transactions in 2009 – a 17 per cent increase over 2008. This result included 5,541 sales in December. The 2009 result was in line with the healthy levels of sales experienced...
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 3,079 existing home transactions in the first two weeks of December compared to 1,487 in 2008. The strong growth represents both increased home ownership demand and the fact that we are comparing t...
The provincial government has provided rules/guidance on how it will transition to the implementation of the proposed Harmonized Sales Tax. The provincial government has announced that it intends to combine the eight percent Provincial Sales ...
The Toronto Real Estate Board reported 7,446 sales in November – slightly more than double the November 2008 result when GTA home sales had dipped markedly due to the economic downturn. Year-to-date sales were up 14 per cent compared t...
I had to comment on the latest news regarding Great Gulf Homes’ latest downtown condo pre-construction release, X2 Condos. As you may or may not have heard, there was a exclusive broker sales event held for real est...
In the first two weeks of November, the Toronto Real Estate Board reported 3,666 sales – up 84 per cent compared to the first two weeks of November 2008. The average price for these transactions was up 10 per cent year-over-y...
Can you imagine paying additional PST on all of the services we don’t pay now? Next summer (2010) the Ontario Government is set to put into force its new harmonized GST/PST sales tax which will apply a 13% sales tax...
In October 2009, the Toronto Real Estate Board reported 8,476 sales, up 64 per cent from October 2008. The average price for October transactions was $423,559 – up by 20 per cent compared to the same month last year. &ld...
