So 2021 was a pretty good year for condominiums here in the Greater Toronto Area. According to the latest data (Q4-2021) from Urbanation, this is what happened last year: 30,844 new condominium sales. This is a 69% increase compared to 2020, which saw 18,282 new… Read More
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board released its 2020 housing figures this week. And I suspect that the numbers are probably directionally similar for many city regions around the world. 2020 saw more home sales than 2019 with 95,151 homes changing hands. This represents an… Read More
Here’s some data from the Pew Research Center looking at the percentage of young people (18- to 29-year olds) in the US that live with at least one parent. It it based on an analysis of monthly Census Bureau data and is obviously interesting/relevant given… Read More
February data (2018) for the new home market in the Greater Toronto Area was released this past week by BILD and Altus. I seem to have gotten into the habit of writing about this every month. The benchmark price for new low-rise single-family housing was… Read More
The Toronto Real Estate Board (Canada’s largest real estate board) and the Competition Bureau have been fighting for years over whether TREB’s housing market sales data, including realtor commissions, should be publicly available online. The Competition Bureau, as well as many forward thinking realtors, believe… Read More
Blogger and programmer Eric Fischer has an excellent post up on his site where he looks at: “Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments.” It’s worth a good solid read. What he did was dig deep into whatever data he could find – the… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 