I am seeing some wishful thinking in this report
"Vancouver is in correction mode"
This is one of the very few articles that openly admits that, still an isolated opinion. As for Toronto the people need time to get used to that.
Since Vancouver was well ahead of the country it is normal to be hit the first.
Toronto just needs time to get there
on all fronts.
From what I am seeing in my crystal balls (aka real numbers
) the over 1 mil market is stalled.
Lots of properties to choose from in very good areas (not all good properties though) but they are not selling. I will soon see if the prices are dropping
However the under 1 mil $ segment is overheating well, driving the prices up.
Initially I believed that the prices are still going up due to discounted high end sales that were skewing the stats
I will have to put on the same piece of paper the folling:
-price changes for listings above 1 mil
-$ volumes for sales above 1 mil
-sales for properties above 1 mil
-sales for properties under 1 mil and above the average price
-$volumes for the above
Right now I believe that the properties above 700K and under 1 mil are getting higher than normal prices and they are driving the prices up.
This will still inflate the CHMC tabs and the government will be forced to step in again with some restrictions.
I will have to run stats per price segments to see if the increases in the above segment are strong enough to sustain an average price going up AND compensate by a cooling off at the periphery of the market (300K-500K)here asked about my "vision"
someone here asked about my "vision" for Toronto.
You have it above
If you asked for Condos, I think that the article that I pointed out today has a fairly good method to prove that this segment of the market is in trouble (and that is my opinion)
We are just starting to see a correction here, ewe are going to see many other rounds of media intoxication with "prices are going up, rents are going up, the investors are doing OK, half of China is investing in Toronto and so on, but ..the direction that the developers are taking is clear 55% down, you have to get the message! The market is saturated. Do not hope that the renting will save the market.