The Toronto condo market is hot right now. No seriously, it is. After months of writing to my readers about how slow the market has been, there has been a fundamental shift in the marketplace over the past 4 weeks. Multiple offers are back with a vengeance. The best properties are selling over asking and […]
July 20, 2009 / by Andrew la Fleur /Insights, News
July 22 Update: The 1 Bloor site at Yonge and Bloor is apparently up for sale according to the Toronto Star. If this is true, this would put the future of the tower in serious jeopardy. ********************************************** 1 Bloor was the most celebrated and most reviled symbol of Toronto’s recent real estate boom. Realtors lined […]
It’s that time of year again, the time of year after a very busy spring market (I would argue a typical spring market) that was full of bidding wars, new price records being set, sellers making enormous profits, buyers extending themselves to the max, and the pundits were left scratching their heads saying: is this […]
I guess this makes it official: everyone is talking about the Toronto condo market. I was interviewed a couple weeks ago for an article on our condo market by a writer for the Wall Street Journal, and today that article hit wsj.com. Read the entire article here. See what people on Twitter are saying about […]
There seems to be a growing segment of the population and the media that feel that the condo market is about to see declining prices. I am getting more and more comments like, “I heard that prices are going to come down this year, so I’m going to wait until that happens then buy”. Based […]
If you are a condo news junkie like me, you probably have been enjoying the past few months because the level of interest in the Toronto condo market appears to be at an all time high. The big boys of Canadian media: The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National Post all run stories about […]
There are starting to be signs that the condo market might be slowing down. I am seeing and hearing accounts of several newly released condo projects not getting near the sales numbers they were anticipating. But how can this be the case when just last month we saw near-record breaking sales happening at MEGA projects […]
After a couple weeks of relief, the media is once again full of stories of the Toronto condo market’s imminent demise. It seems everyone is talking about the Toronto condo market right now and yet once again there are so many mixed messages it’s hard to know who to believe. A quote from a recent […]
Buyer’s Market The downtown condo market is now a buyer’s market for the first time in over 3 years. The stats just came out for the month of June and the sales:listing ratio for downtown condos has dropped to 26% which represents the lowest level since March of 2009. (For a refresher on why the […]
You Should Have Bought 2 Months Ago
May 5, 2009 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
The Toronto condo market is hot right now. No seriously, it is. After months of writing to my readers about how slow the market has been, there has been a fundamental shift in the marketplace over the past 4 weeks. Multiple offers are back with a vengeance. The best properties are selling over asking and […]
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1 Bloor Rumour Train Gathering Speed
July 20, 2009 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights, News
July 22 Update: The 1 Bloor site at Yonge and Bloor is apparently up for sale according to the Toronto Star. If this is true, this would put the future of the tower in serious jeopardy. ********************************************** 1 Bloor was the most celebrated and most reviled symbol of Toronto’s recent real estate boom. Realtors lined […]
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Will the Condo Market Crash?
July 14, 2011 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
It’s that time of year again, the time of year after a very busy spring market (I would argue a typical spring market) that was full of bidding wars, new price records being set, sellers making enormous profits, buyers extending themselves to the max, and the pundits were left scratching their heads saying: is this […]
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Wall Street Journal Chimes in on the Toronto Condo Market
August 24, 2011 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
I guess this makes it official: everyone is talking about the Toronto condo market. I was interviewed a couple weeks ago for an article on our condo market by a writer for the Wall Street Journal, and today that article hit wsj.com. Read the entire article here. See what people on Twitter are saying about […]
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Toronto Condo Bubble About to Burst?
January 4, 2012 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
There seems to be a growing segment of the population and the media that feel that the condo market is about to see declining prices. I am getting more and more comments like, “I heard that prices are going to come down this year, so I’m going to wait until that happens then buy”. Based […]
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Toronto: Ghost City
May 9, 2012 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
If you are a condo news junkie like me, you probably have been enjoying the past few months because the level of interest in the Toronto condo market appears to be at an all time high. The big boys of Canadian media: The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, and National Post all run stories about […]
Read more
Condo Market Showing Signs of Slowing?
April 25, 2012 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
There are starting to be signs that the condo market might be slowing down. I am seeing and hearing accounts of several newly released condo projects not getting near the sales numbers they were anticipating. But how can this be the case when just last month we saw near-record breaking sales happening at MEGA projects […]
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The Most Important Statistic in the Toronto Condo Market
June 15, 2012 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
After a couple weeks of relief, the media is once again full of stories of the Toronto condo market’s imminent demise. It seems everyone is talking about the Toronto condo market right now and yet once again there are so many mixed messages it’s hard to know who to believe. A quote from a recent […]
Read more
Downtown Condo Market Now a Buyer’s Market
July 6, 2012 / by Andrew la Fleur / Insights
Buyer’s Market The downtown condo market is now a buyer’s market for the first time in over 3 years. The stats just came out for the month of June and the sales:listing ratio for downtown condos has dropped to 26% which represents the lowest level since March of 2009. (For a refresher on why the […]
Read more