1/7/2020 | Posted in Real Estate Investments by Anabela Serra
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Toronto and Vancouver are among the prime cities for real estate investment.

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  9/16/2019 | Posted in Home Buyers by Anabela Serra
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In an election announcement on Thursday, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau promised to turbocharge the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive (FTHBI) for Canadians who live in ... More

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  7/15/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Commercial real estate in the Greater Toronto Area saw a slower pace of activity in the second quarter of 2019 compared to a year earlier.

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  6/6/2019 | Posted in Toronto Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Due to strong economic fundamentals Toronto’s housing market remains expensive. That’s one reason why this year’s list is dominated by neighbourhoods ... More

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  5/17/2019 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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The technology sector has had a profound impact on commercial assets in Toronto’s 416 and 905 regions, according to a new study by Avison Young.

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  5/4/2019 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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It took more than a decade to acquire the land, but the developers of a massive proposed Crosstown mixed-use project on a 60-acre site at Toronto’s Eglinton Avenue East ... More

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  3/7/2019 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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Toronto has broken into North America’s top-five cities for tech talent as the city undergoes an economic boom.

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  12/19/2018 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it plans to create 600 new technology jobs in downtown Toronto following the opening of a new 113,000 square foot office in Scotia Plaza.

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  12/17/2018 | Posted in Canadian Economy and Housing Market by Anabela Serra
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The prospect of interest rate hikes is particularly daunting for residents of Toronto and Vancouver—two cities with debt levels well above the national average.

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  12/12/2018 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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The City of Toronto's budget-balancing golden goose — the land transfer tax — is sick. For the first time since the tax on real estate exchanges was introduced ... More

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  11/20/2018 | Posted in GTA Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Fleeing Toronto for a cheaper house in the suburbs isn’t worth it for many people who have to commute to jobs back downtown.

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  11/16/2018 | Posted in Rental Market by Anabela Serra
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Immensely positive prospects for employment will fuel prolonged demand for rental residences in Toronto, according to a new analysis by Marcus & Millichap.

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  10/17/2018 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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Toronto has seen a dramatic fall from the top in a global ranking of the best performing residential housing markets.

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  10/11/2018 | Posted in Toronto Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Toronto condo rents jump 7.6% to $2,385 per month in third quarter.

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  9/28/2018 | Posted in Toronto Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Sales for $1 million or more in the Toronto region bounced back after a slowdown earlier this year, climbing 19 per cent in July and August from the same period in 2017, ... More

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  9/21/2018 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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The company is planning more than $570 million in investment in Canada over the next three years.

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  8/21/2018 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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Toronto’s tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while ... More

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  7/27/2018 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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Toronto has added the most technology jobs in the past five years and has the fourth best technology talent market in Canada and the U.S., according to a new report.

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  7/26/2018 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Toronto’s industrial sector has a vacancy rate of 0.7%, according to Colliers International, bespeaking a thriving economy.

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  5/1/2018 | Posted in GTA Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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The City of Vaughan and the City of Toronto are among the municipalities considering large increases in their local development charges, which are the taxes that cities collect ... More

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  2/15/2018 | Posted in Toronto News by Anabela Serra
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If you're a young person living in Toronto, you'll need to have scored a raise of some $5,000 in the past year just to keep up with the rising cost of living.

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  2/5/2018 | Posted in GTA Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Condo developers in Toronto are under extreme pressure to deliver more units as demand continues to escalate.

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  1/30/2018 | Posted in Toronto Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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The strength exhibited by the GTA real estate market in 2017 is poised to continue seamlessly into this year, according to the latest report from commercial real estate ... More

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  1/29/2018 | Posted in Commercial Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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As one of the cities still in the running to be home to Amazon’s HQ2, Toronto has made a top 30 ranking of global cities for commercial real estate investment.

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  12/10/2017 | Posted in New Developments by Anabela Serra
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of housing starts picked up in November, with condo building in Toronto driving the trend.  

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  11/8/2017 | Posted in Ontario Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said 2,438 new housing units were launched in the Greater Toronto Area in October, a 42-per-cent drop from 4,204 units in the same month last ... More

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  10/19/2017 | Posted in Toronto Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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In its latest Metropolitan Outlook, The Conference Board of Canada noted that Toronto’s housing market will experience further cooling in 2018, after the moderation that ... More

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  10/13/2017 | Posted in Rental Market by Anabela Serra
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Competition in Toronto's condo rental market has become so fierce that bidding wars are on the ... More

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  10/10/2017 | Posted in Real Estate Market by Anabela Serra
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Conventional economic factors including population, incomes and borrowing costs accounted for less than half of the 40% surge in Toronto home prices between 2010 and 2016, ... More

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  8/15/2017 | Posted in Toronto Real Estate by Anabela Serra
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While various quarters have cited supply scarcity as a central driver in Toronto’s long-running housing affordability issues, latest census data actually belies that ... More

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