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Solving the Lack of Rental Supply?

2018/12/09 No Comments »

Ontario’s housing minister is standing by the government’s elimination of rent controls on new units as the best way to alleviate the Toronto region’s vacancy squeeze. “Exempting new un...

Condos & Their Current Sales Strength

2018/12/09 No Comments »

Despite the average price of a condo unit in Toronto increasing by almost 8% year-to-date to reach $551,761, this has not stopped hopeful home owners from snapping up the city’s condominium apartmen...

More Bad News for Toronto Tenants

2018/12/09 No Comments »

Doug Ford's rent control exemption will make housing less affordable for Toronto tenants Rent control policies have played a role in “limiting supply growth in purpose-built” ...

More Condos Coming Soon

2018/05/28 No Comments »

The Greater Toronto Area’s (GTA) leading source for condo market intelligence, Urbanation, released its first quarter report for 2018 (Q1-2018). Following a record year for the new condo market, t...

GTA’s hot condo market moderates in first quarter

2018/05/28 No Comments »

Rising development costs and high-profile project cancellations have injected a note of caution into Toronto’s hot condo market, with more project terminations likely to come, says development r...

New Standard Lease Form Released

2018/05/28 No Comments »

A new standard lease form designed to help prevent disputes between tenants and landlords is now in effect in Ontario. Most landlords in Ontario are now required to use the form for new lease agre...

Toronto’s Rental Market: THE NUMBERS

2018/02/15 No Comments »

The city’s Tenant Issues Committee released a report on Friday revealing concerning trends in Toronto’s rental market — vacancy rates are down; average rents have skyrocketed; and most new rent...

GTA Rental News

2018/01/24 No Comments »

JANET MCFARLAND REAL ESTATE REPORTER PUBLISHED JANUARY 22, 2018UPDATED 1 DAY AGO Apartment rents climbed sharply in the Greater Toronto Area in 2017 as population growth and low supply ...

Rising Prices and Evictions

2017/10/14 No Comments »

ANNA SHARRATT SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL OCTOBER 11, 2017 Michele Yeo has been through the wringer in Toronto's rental market. In the past five years, she's had to take a landlord to...

Scary Rental Market

2017/10/14 No Comments »

By now we're familiar with the flux of the Toronto housing market, but renters have become familiar with a more stable narrative: it's downright scary trying to find an apartment in this city. A n...

Does Toronto truly have a vacant Condo problem?

2017/09/05 No Comments »

The head economist of RBC’s asset management division is shedding light on Toronto’s unoccupied condo units as the city mulls a vacant-home tax like Vancouver’s amid support from activists. ...

Rental Market Rage

2017/08/11 No Comments »

As Toronto rents near Brooklyn-level prices, tenants grow desperate Apartment-seekers are driving the streets looking for rentals and creating web profiles, similar to dating bios, to attract lan...