Share By the end of this year, Toronto home prices are expected to be higher according to a forecast by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). With an improving economy, it means that average home prices will reach $384,120 by the end of 2009, which will be up 1.1% from 2008 noted the federal [...]
Share The GTA market continues to heat up again in August. The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) has reported an amazing 8,035 sales this month by Greater Toronto Realtors. This is up 27% from August 2008 where there were only 6,318 sales that year. The average price for a home has also edged up slightly [...]
Share With the housing market rising slightly in June we have come to see that homes in the Beach have shown the highest price appreciation in the Toronto area in the first six months of this year.Detached homes in the Beach gave the best resale return-on-investment in the GTA. The average price rose 3.79% to [...]
Share A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that the Toronto Real Estate Board reported the BEST JUNE ON RECORD in terms of sales. The Toronto Real Estate Board has just released a Press Release with the numbers for the first 2 weeks of July – and we GTA REALTORS(R) are on course for reporting [...]
Share Today we have a guest speaker, her name is Alice Landa from Master Stagers Inc. She is an Accredited Staging Professional Master and she has provided us with a terrific article on a complete solution for staging your home in this market. Her article is below: Home Staging provides a vital service in today’s [...]
Share A friend asked me over lunch the other day, “What do you guys do anyway, I can go onto the internet and find my own house if I wanted to, can’t I?” What a bold and intriguing question to ask! I answered him with the following: Well we [Realtors] do a number of things, [...]
