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Home sales recorded over Canadian MLS Systems increased a further 6.6% from January to February 2021, raising them to another new all-time monthly record.
From challenging markets often emerge creative solutions! In response to Toronto real estate values exceeding financial feasibility for many, Key has created a co-equity model for affordable homeownership.
In January 2021, national home sales recorded through MLS rose 2% compared to January 2020, and activity was up over 35%. The national average home price was up 22.8.% year-over-year.
As with any real estate purchase, there are upsides, downsides, and particular considerations when downsizing into a smaller space!
In December 2020, national home sales recorded through MLS were up by a whopping 47.2% compared to December 2019. The month also saw a significant 3.4% increase in new listings from November to December.
We made it! Happy New Year to all our readers and contributors! While we formulate plans to make 2021 Houseporn's best year yet, here are Houseporn.ca's Top 5 most popular posts of 2020!
This month we saw the apparent effects of COVID-19 - spooking folks out of buying in the big city. The biggest price gains were seen in villages like Woodstock-Ingersoll, up-and-coming towns like Barrie, and cottage country, while prices climbed more minimally in major metropolitan areas like Toronto and Vancouver.
Canadians pride themselves on being able to withstand - and even flourish - during long months of weather that would make most Americans quiver. Here's how to ensure your biggest asset is equally prepped to weather the weather!
The bungalow is a housing style that dots the streetscapes of Canadian cities and suburbs alike. In this blog, veteran realtor Steven Fudge of Urbaneer, a Division of Bosley Real Estate Ltd., looks at the history of this housing type and offers ideas for renovation and sale.
Sales activity was up 32.1% compared to October 2019, while the national average sale price increased 15.2% year over year.
In this blog, veteran realtor Steven Fudge of Urbaneer, a Division of Bosley Real Estate Ltd., discusses how the pandemic has incited a collective realignment of the way we navigate our place in the world, including our preferences on where and how we live.
Over 500 kids across Canada drew their dream home - 20 years in the future - and the top submissions were converted into professional illustrations!
Sales activity was up 45.6% compared to September 2019, while the national average sale price increased 17.5%.
Toronto real estate veteran Steven Fudge shares how home buyers seek outdoor space to benefit both health and well-being, and for its added value in a real estate purchase!
Hipsteaders belong to a movement of urbanites stepping back from their frenetic pre-COVID-19 lives in the pursuit of a more simple way of living.
Home sales recorded over Canadian MLS Systems increased a further 6.2% in August 2020, raising them to another new all-time monthly record.
This 5 bed, 5 bath classic country home perched on a private 1.5-acre rural estate in the Whitchurch-Stouffeville area of Ontario is currently offered for sale at $2,850,000!
In the height of summer, when Canadian housing markets are traditionally sluggish, pent up demand from a smothered Spring continues to propel real estate activity to surprising levels.
Looking for fancy? Check out this $22 million dollar grand luxury mansion in a quiet bedroom community outside Toronto, Ontario!
What a leap! National home sales rose 63% from May 2020 to June 2020! Even Sellers emerged from hibernation in June, with new listings climbing 49.5%!
Canadian home sales rebounded 56.9% in May 2020. However, that percentage represents how far the market bounced back from April's record breaking low. In actuality, activity in May 2020 was still down 39.8% compared to May 2019.
Officially the most expensive residential property ever listed for sale in Nova Scotia, The Lodge on Strum Island is equipped with everything one would need to survive a full year without visiting the mainland.
According to CREA, national home sales fell 56.8% on a month-over-month basis from March to April 2020!
The number of newly listed properties sunk almost 13% from February to March! Here are the rest of the CREA Stats for March 2020 - real estate under the shadow of a pandemic!
While the number of real estate transactions improved in about 60% of all local markets in February, the big national increase was largely the result of a 15% jump in activity in the Greater Toronto Area.
With Toronto's eternal imbalance of low housing supply and omnipresent buyer demand - bidding wars - which tend to appear during the seasonal cycles of real estate when conditions are particularly ripe, have re-emerged with a vengeance this spring. The result? Soaring values and precedent-setting prices which are skewing Canadian Real Estate statistics.
Transactions were down in a little over half of all local markets in January compared to Decmeber. That said, sales activity was still up 11.5% compared to January 2019, marking the best sales figures for the month in 12 years.
Canadian home sales recorded by CREA edged down 0.9% in December 2019, ending a streak of monthly gains that began last March!
Happy 2020! We're beginning the New Year with some reflection, sharing with you the Top Five most popular student posts of 2019!
Notching its ninth straight monthly gain, November's activity stands 20% above the six-year low reached in February 2019.