I was surfing my favorite Toronto Construction Site Today, which is called, the Urban Toronto Forum, and I stumbled across some awesome new renderings of the Ten York Project being launched by Tridel. As I posted last week, this building appears to have been a rousing sales success, stunning the Toronto Real Estate community which was in the throws of a self inflicted death spin due to the mythical Toronto Condo Bubble's implosion. Apparently in less than the space of a week or so, Tridel has managed to sell out the majority of the units in the 700 or so they made available to the public. (getting techincal, they sold about 88% of the available units) the building will have close to 800 units when all is said and done. So obviously Tridel might be holding something back for a later sales cycle when construction has commenced, and they can command an even higher price for those condos.
Global Financial Markets (Factor: Negative)
The global financial markets seems to be on the rebound, from late last year and continuing into the new year, the stock markets of the key global players has been improving in performance. So why is this a negative for Toronto and our economy in general? Well, if you remember the Financial Crisis, after the initial shock of the collapse Toronto actually did quite well, the cause of this was that International Money was looking for a safe place to go and hide, and as far as investors there is no better place to stash your money than Toronto, as it's safe, it's global and has a solid reputation for financial stability. A global Financial rebound is bad for Toronto, as cash now has other places to go to get a good return. The easy ride will be over for us here.New Trends in Condo Buying Emerging in the Toronto Area
A few new trends to watch out for in the Toronto area when it comes to buying homes as well as buying condos. When it comes to buying homes, the latest tactic is to put a property which had previously been listed on the MLS system, on a bidding site, or list through an auction house to get buyers, sending the price of single detached homes soaring.
As for condos the latest buying technique is the new trend with regards to micro housing, or micro condo living. And we’re seeing now, specifically designed condos to meet that purpose. Another new trend to look out for is the lack of supply in the purpose built rental housing market in Toronto. Even as new condos come online there remains a shortage of apartments built specific to that purpose, so condo rentals have increased even as vacancy climbs, rentals rates do as well.
Busy Condo Market Boosts Toronto Home Sales
With fewer homes in the detached category available in Toronto, new home buyers seem to be opting for new condos, with sales heading forward at a rocket pace last month. Sales of Existing Homes in the Toronto area moved up by a whopping 2.1% in February 2014, and that is compared to the same time period last year. That was mainly due to a 12.5% increase in the sales of condos within the city so stated by the Toronto Real Estate Board. That will contrasts with the sales declines that occurred in townhomes, detached and semi-detached housing during the month, which was mainly due to a constrained supply of those housing types.
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