Tag: property values
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April 2013 Newsletter | Toronto & Vaughan Real Estate
April 2013 New in Toronto & Vaughan Did you know? – 76% of 20-29 year old Vaughan residents still live with parents, well above the national average of 42.3% – Landlords in Ontario can raise a Tenants rent as high as they see fit; rent control doesn’t apply to dwellings occupied after November 1, 1991. APRIL […]
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Top 5 Most Expensive Condos in Toronto For Sale
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca April 12, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent The most expensive condos in Toronto for sale are the true definition of “castles in the sky”. Check into the most exclusive condos in Toronto and the GTA. The luxury condo market in Toronto real estate is one […]
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Toronto’s best real estate pockets
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca April 11. 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Where are Toronto’s best real estate hot spots? Toronto’s capricious spring real estate market has lots of people feeling perplexed. Sales have been tumbling for months in a row but prices have held on or continued to climb. […]
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TORONTO & GTA – HOUSING STATS: MARCH 2013
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca February 5, 2012 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent March 2013 housing statistics for the Toronto Real Estate Board Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 7,765 transactions through the TorontoMLS system in March 2013 – down 17 per cent compared to 9,385 transactions in March 2012. While the year-over-year dip in […]
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Toronto Real Estate Market Well-Balanced: BMO
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca April 4, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Toronto Real Estate Market is steady TORONTO, ONTARIO – The March home sales figures for the Toronto Real Estate Market’s home sales are very much in line with the softer trend seen over the prior six months, according to […]
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Mortgage News Update | Toronto & Vaughan Real Estate
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca March 22, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent A quick update on the latest mortgage news and trends Our good friends and colleagues at MortgageJake update us on the latest mortgage news. This week saw two dramatic moves by Jim Flaherty that directly impact us in the housing […]
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Toronto & GTA Real Estate Market Stats Infographic | February 2013
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca March 13, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent GTA home sales down 15% in February with prices climbing by 2% Greater Toronto Area (GTA) REALTORS® reported 5,759 sales through the TorontoMLS system in February 2013 – a decline of 15 per cent in comparison to February […]
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Top 10 Most Expensive Homes in Toronto for Sale
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca March 12, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Check into the most exclusive and certainly most expensive homes in Toronto and the GTA. With all the talk of an overheated Toronto real estate market, one particular segment that doesn’t seem to be letting up is Toronto’s […]
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How affordable are Toronto home prices really?
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca February 28, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent With home prices in a state of limbo, how affordable is Toronto and the GTA’s real estate market really? Two of Canada’s biggest banks released reports this week examining the affordability of homes across the country, and Toronto didn’t come […]
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Top 100 Canadian Neighbourhoods | 2013 Investment Guide
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca January 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Top 100 Canadian Neighbourhoods The Top 100 Canadian Neighbourhoods investment guide is now available from the folks over at Canadian Real Estate Wealth. In their annual report on the top Canadian neighbourhoods to invest in for 2013, there are […]
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Toronto
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca February 10, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Toronto: some fun things you didn’t know about our world class city. Toronto was originally called the ‘Town of York’ until 1834. The Toronto Zoo is the third largest in the world and is home to more than 5000 animals. […]
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TORONTO & GTA – HOUSING STATS: JANUARY 2013
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca February 5, 2012 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent January 2013 housing statistics for the Toronto Real Estate Board Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 4,375 transactions through the TorontoMLS system in January 2013. This number represented a slight decline compared to 4,432 transactions reported in January 2012. […]
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Toronto’s first luxury prefab home sells for $1.5million
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca January 31, 2013 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Are prefabricated homes Toronto’s future? How Many people can say their home was built in just 2 days? The new owners of Toronto’s first luxury prefab home can! Sold for $1.525,000 after 274 days on the market (it […]
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Toronto’s real estate market will stay strong in 2013
Follow @TopTorontoAgent Dec 21, 2012 6 good indicators of why the GTA real estate market will remain strong in 2013 Many economists predicted Toronto’s real estate market to crash this year, with prices falling by up to 25 per cent. I didn’t see that prediction coming true and it didn’t. Nor do I believe it […]
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Difference between buying and renting in Toronto
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca December 18, 2012 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Rent or Buy? The age old question. Toronto, Vaughan and the GTA are currently enjoying a healthy rental market with vacancy rates hovering around 1%. This high demand for rental properties has driven up rental rates upwards of […]
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It’s snowing money in Downtown Toronto!
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca December 16, 2012 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Who needs the snow in Toronto when we’ve been blessed with an abundance of falling condo prices! Christmas arrived early this year for condo buyers in Toronto looking to […]
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[infographic] 5 Things you didn’t know about the Mortgage Market
Follow @TopTorontoAgent Our friends at ratehub.ca have put together this excellent infographic on Canada’s mortgage market. If you have any questions about Canadian mortgages or any real estate related questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. START YOUR JOURNEY HERE OR CONTACT ILAN NOW FOR A MORE PERSONALISED SEARCH EXPERIENCE! Ilan Joseph is a Real Estate […]
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Canadian home affordability rises
Follow @TopTorontoAgent December 10, 2012 Royal Bank says the cost of home ownership became more affordable in the most recent quarter due to a modest decline in home prices and gains in Canadian household incomes. RBC’s affordability index for a detached bungalow stood at 42 per cent of income nationally in the second quarter. That […]
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Summary of TorontoMLS Sales and Average Price – November 1 – 30
Follow @TopTorontoAgent GTA REALTORS® Release Monthly Resale Housing Figures Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® reported 5,793 sales in November 2012 – down by 16 per cent compared to November 2011. “Transactions have been down on a year-over-year basis since June, after being up substantially in the last half of 2011 and the first half of 2012. […]
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How to Succeed in Toronto and Vaughan Real Estate Investing
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca December 16, 2012 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent To become a successful Toronto or Vaughan real estate investor requires that you find a good real estate property to invest in. Appraising and finding the true value in Toronto and Vaughan properties is essential to your investment success. […]
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Toronto Condo prices taking a hit (infographics)
Follow @TopTorontoAgent Related Article: Hello Buyers Market! If you’ve been following recent real estate news for Toronto, Vaughan and the GTA, you may have heard that our condo market is experiencing a slowdown. To help illustrate these changes, here are some Toronto Real Estate charts that clearly paints the markets picture. It takes almost twice as long […]
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Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent
Follow @TopTorontoAgent Ottawa, Ontario – The Bank of Canada announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent. The global economy has unfolded broadly as the Bank projected in its July Monetary […]
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Hello Buyers Market
By Ilan Joseph, Broker, ABR®, e-PRO®, AMP® | TopTorontoAgent.ca November 2, 2012 | © All rights reserved Follow @TopTorontoAgent Hello Buyers Market! The past few months have seen the real estate market here in Toronto, Vaughan and across the GTA really turn around. From a very hot “sellers market” during the first half of 2012 to a […]
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STUDIES SAY CASINOS HAVE NEUTRAL EFFECT ON PROPERTY VALUES
May 9, 2012 A recent Ipsos Reid poll reveals that a slim majority of Torontonians, 53.5%, would support the building of a new casino in Toronto. The highest support came from Scarborough, where 58.6% of residents gave it a thumbs-up. In York and East York, the figure dropped slightly to 54.3%; in North York, 55.2%; […]