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Summer Slowdown (Pt2)

Toronto Realty Blog

I had this idea on the weekend that I wanted to look at the seasonal variation in the Toronto real estate market, specifically how things change as we leave the late spring and enter the summer. There’s so much talk in offices about this “summer slowdown” that it seems we almost will it to happen.

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June TRREB Stats: A Level Playing Field?

Toronto Realty Blog

I’ve often mused on this blog that there’s nothing I love more than watching a movie I’ve seen a dozen times! But so too was my original title for today’s blog: Expect The Expected. Last month, I wrote a lot about what typically takes place in the Toronto real estate market in the summer. Or is it both?

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Right, Wrong, & Everything In-Between

Toronto Realty Blog

In previous years, hitting August 10th on the real estate calendar would just about spell the start of the annual summer slowdown. After I wrote Tuesday’s blog, I had a few very difficult conversations with condo sellers. It would seem that summer is usually a tight time for condo inventory, I suppose. ADOM: -24.2%.

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Will We See An Interest Rate Hike In July?

Toronto Realty Blog

Whether the Bank of Canada is prepared to wait for this slowdown to transpire is another question. appeared first on Toronto Realty Blog. “It seems likely the Bank of Canada will be seriously considering raising rates next week,” said Royce Mendes, Desjardins head of macro strategy, in a May 31 note.

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Is the Housing Market in a Bubble? How the Indicators Today Compare With the Great Recession

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There’s no formal definition of ‘bubble,’ so people can call it whatever they want,” says Bill McBride , an economics blog writer at Calculated Risk who predicted the last housing bust. Home prices are typically highest in the summer and then fall during the colder months. million from 2016 to 2021.

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Top Ten: Burning Questions For The Fall Market!

Toronto Realty Blog

TorontoRealtyBlog So, how was your summer? And now it’s over… Sometime around mid-July, I told my wife, “This summer is going by really fast! I told you summer would fly by and it would be Halloween in the blink of an eye!” Mine was great. We’re going to be carving pumpkins before you know it!”

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October TRREB Stats: A Broken Clock Is Right Twice Per Day

Toronto Realty Blog

So it’s not like this fall’s slowdown should be unexpected, and yet here we are, collectively looking skyward for answers. While September is historically a “big month” as we see a pop from a solemn summer, history shows that we should expect to see October sales come in higher than September.

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