Toronto Ontario by John Ryan
Monthly mortgage payments continued to be affordable for the average Canadian household thanks to favorable lending conditions, so the Greater Toronto real estate market continues on its steady climb towards more buyers, more expensive homes and more home ownership.
Home ownership proves to be an excellent investment in the long-run nowadays despite the fact that real estate is getting overpriced in some hot spots where we see cruel bidding wars. This situation would seem to be bad enough that potential sellers wouldn't want to part with their property, which is still rising in price. Oddly enough, there are still lots of buyers who can find the inventory they are looking for, mainly thanks to their agents.
The average selling price in 2014 in the Greater Toronto Area rose by 8.4 per cent year-over-year and reached $566,726. There were 92,867 residential sales recorded in 2014, including 4,446 of them in December, which is a 6.7 per cent increase compared to the 87,049 residential sales total of 2013. The number of sales recorded in 2014 fell short of the record setting 93,193 sales in 2017 by just a few hundred homes sold.
Yearly residential sales in GTA 2014 2013 comparison
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