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I have a laneway land in little italy, and was planning to build a laneway home of an 800 sq ft footprint 3 years ago. But I dropped the project, as it was too expensive to bring services into the laneway. Also, unlike Vancouver, city of Toronto does not yet support this type of housing due to...

The large touch screen tables in the sales centre is pretty cool, especially when you select a floorplan, it shows you the actual panoramic view from your suite, as well as lighting up the suite on the physical building mock-up.

No one’s building goes up in a falling market no matter how great it is. What matters is your ability to withstand a downturn. If the building is paying you to own it, this gives you the freedom of not caring how much it is worth.

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Here's the housing price historical chart of Vancouver: We see there's a difference between Vancouver and Toronto trends. In general Toronto's housing price trend follows one velocity (illustrated as the red reference line), this velocity pretty much follows the GDP growth. While Vancouver had...

Toronto and GTA GDP historical

A few population growth related charts: This chart below shows two critical events that are in close correlation to the downturn of housing market in 1974 and 1989. A sharp decline in natural population growth triggers the bubble burst. However in around 2001 there was also a sharp...

I'm continuing my research, and will post what I find along the way. Primarily Im trying to find correlations between population growth, asset / debt growth, interest rates, immigration and other key factors and the housing market overall trends in the course of past few decades. Here's one...

And to answer that question, we might actually see something like this:

I never discounted the fact that there will always be a housing bubble. Like I said, the very market structure (capitalism and its irrational nature of pursuing max profit, in another word - greed) dictates that housing market will always be in a cycle of bubbling up and pops bust. The real...

Haha, I'm just trying to debate internally using facts and data, and thinking out loud.

Seems like we are inevitably heading towards a deep recession, or a great depression, and it will last for decades.

A good tool to look at the global housing bubbles historical: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/03/global_house_prices

I think we should all just assume a bubble pop and prepare for the rainy days. What would the aftermath look like and how long will it take us who wish to ride out the potential housing storm to get back on our feet? Looking at the history will give us a better picture. GTA housing price...

Since most of discussions were about Toronto, thought I'd share some interesting finds regarding our fellow counterpart - Vancouver. Vancouver Sun: Vancouver’s real estate market mirrors Chinese economy, according to study Read more...

Very intelligent observation.

I copied and pasted with minor edits...hence my question following the quote. :)

The sales figures we have seen this year so far are measured against last years numbers which were astronomical when looking at the 10 year average. This was due to many echo boomers and luxury buyers rushing to buy before the new mortgage rules came into effect. The lull in sales is to be...

Like the presidential election, people are manipulated by the media. As oppose to the doom and gloom news we have seen last winter and this spring, now the media seems to be turning their heads: Toronto Star: Housing meltdown fears ‘unfounded,’ says BMO "While some are highlighting the fact...