Toronto Beaches real estate market update, August 8, 2010

Episode 236 - Toronto Beaches real estate market update, August 8, 2010

Episode 236 of the Toronto Real Estate Musing daily video blog. This is Week 31 of the Beach real estate market for the period of Monday Aug 2 to Sunday August 8, 2010. It’s true that real estate sales are down throughout Canada, however it’s important to remember that The Beaches neighbourhood is a destination… Play Video

Toronto Beaches real estate market update, August 1, 2010

Episode 230 - Toronto Beaches real estate

Episode 230 of the Toronto Real Estate Musing daily video blog. This is Week 30 of the Beach real estate market for the period of Monday July 26 to Sunday August 1, 2010. Properties For Sale: Freehold Properties: 113 down 14% (132 previous week) Condominium Apartments and Townhouses: 17 down 19% (21 previous week) Properties… Play Video

Toronto Beaches real estate market update – July 25, 2010

Episode 225 - Toronto Beaches real estate market update - July 25, 2010

Episode 225 of the Toronto Real Estate Musing daily video blog. George O’Neill provides his weekly E02 (The Beach Toronto) market update for Week 29: Monday, July 19, 2010 to Sunday, July 25, 2010. For the week ending July 25th, 2010, there are 132 freehold properties and 21 condominiums (both apartments and townhouses) for sale,… Play Video

Toronto Beaches real estate market update, July 18, 2010

Episode 218 - Toronto Beaches real estate market update, July 18, 2010

Episode 218 of the Toronto Real Estate Musing daily video blog. This is your TREB district E02 market update for Week 28: Monday, July 12, 2010 to Sunday, July 18, 2010. Since George O’Neill is currently in New Brunswick, he decided to film this update in front of Head Hall, his old Engineering faculty stomping… Play Video

June 2010: The ball is back in the buyer’s court

Basketball hooop

We’ve seen, both on the street and in the numbers, the Toronto residential real estate market retract in the past couple of months, and June was no exception.  In fact it appears The Beach, usually a pillar of strength in the Toronto market, is not immune to this latest drop. The Toronto Real Estate Board… Read More

May 2010: It’s a cool summer

Sign at Ed's Real Scoop

The newspapers have caught on to what good real estate agents have sensed in the past two months: that the housing market is cooling down. May is typically a strong month for sales, and 2010 is no exception.  The key is to look at the number of sales vs. the number of listings in any… Read More

Toronto Real Estate Statistics @ Mid November

Toronto Real Estate sales statistics for mid-November were released yesterday by the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB).  No real surprise here.  Across Toronto, the number of overall house sales was down 19.7% while prices were down on average 7.5%.  Most of this drop seems to have occurred during October when the financial markets went into… Play Video

Good News for First Time Re-Sale Homebuyers

News Release from Toronto Real Estate Board: Province Expands Provincial Land Transfer Tax Rebate December 13, 2007 — The provincial government has announced that it is expanding the PROVINCIAL land transfer tax rebate for first-time buyers to include re-sale housing, something which REALTORS® have lobbied for. Details First-time buyers of BOTH re-sale, and newly constructed homes,… Play Video

Phantom Bids – Stop the Debate – Let’s Fix This Once and For All!

You may have heard the debate coming out of the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) earlier this summer about so-called Phantom Bids.  The new TREB president Maureen O’Neill (despite the great last name, is no relation to yours truly) won her seat on a platform that did not acknowledge the existence of those bids.  Mike Manley… Play Video