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      • A 15 per cent tax imposed on new homebuyers; changes in mortgage regulations; a sudden existential crisis at Home Capital, a large alternative lender; and unrelenting spring rains that led to weeks of flooding all hit Toronto in April/May 2017. Bubbly markets can falter even from one such drastic intervention.
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  2. In 2017, the Toronto real estate market started the year with home prices up 34% in March over the previous year then saw prices tumble 18% in just four months when the bubble burst. What was behind Toronto’s rapid house price appreciation, why did prices fall so rapidly and how were consumers affected by this market volatility?

  3. Dec 27, 2017 · The month-over-month comparisons from record highs observed in March and April showed large declines. In Toronto alone, nominal housing prices dropped by 19 per cent in July 2017 from a high of $918,138 in April 2017. Sales volume declined by 49 per cent over the same period.

    • Cancelled Sales Are Normal, Except When They Aren’T
    • Toronto Real Estate Price Growth Was Bigger Than The Us Bubble
    • Toronto Benchmark Price Change
    • The Number of Cancelled Sales Spiked Over This Period
    • Cancelled Toronto Real Estate Sales
    • Cancelled Toronto Real Estate Sales as A Percentage

    To get the number of cancelled sales, we’ll be comparing TREB’s reporting over two periods. The first, will be a snapshot of the numbers reported at month end. The second, will be what those sales numbers are one year later. The difference are the number of sales that didn’t complete. Sales don’t complete for a number of reason. Issues like financi...

    Quick refresher for those that don’t remember what happened last year. Looking at the benchmark price, we see that price growth peaked last year. In April 2017, the price of a typical home in Toronto experienced annual gains of 31.26%. To give some context, the US housing bubble saw peak annual growth of 27% in 2005. It was a huge climb, that not e...

    The annual percent change of TREB’s benchmark price for all home types. Source: TREB, Better Dwelling.

    The period when Greater Toronto home prices really surged, is when we see the most revisions. March 2017 received a downward revision of 123 homes, an increase of 86% from the year before. April 2017 was the highest with 162 home sales cancelled, an increase of 134% compared to the year before. May 2017 saw the number taper down to 130 canceled hom...

    The number of sales per month that were removed, one year later. Source: TREB, Better Dwelling. If the numbers seem high, it’s because they are – especially compared to the year before. March 2017 saw 1.02% of sales removed, compared to just 0.64% the year before. April 2017 saw 1.39% of sales removed, up from 0.57% the year before. May 2017 came i...

    The number of sales per month that were removed, as a percent of total sales. Source: TREB, Better Dwelling. Why most of these buyers walked away from their sales will forever be a mystery. Some have popped up in the court system, sometimes with huge consequences. One buyer that backed out without sufficient reason was ordered to pay $470,000 to th...

  4. May 15, 2017 · Home sales cooled in April after setting a record the previous month as the pace of transactions in the Greater Toronto Area slowed, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday.

  5. Mar 1, 2022 · Rather it was after the Ontario Fair Housing Plan in April of 2017, that prices and sales growth halted. Three months after the policy, prices dropped more than 20% from their April peak across the GTA, cutting more than $100,000 off the average price of a home.

  6. Jan 4, 2018 · The average selling price for 2017 was $822,681, up 12.7% compared with 2016. ... Toronto home sales in 2017 fell 18.3% from 2016, but the average price climbed. Copy ...

  7. May 3, 2017 · Toronto home sales dipped in April compared to a year ago, a sign that Canada's hottest housing market may be cooling down, though prices continued to climb at a dizzying pace.

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