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 Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 7,922 transactions through the TorontoMLS® system in July 2011, representing a 23% increase over July 2010. Total sales through the first seven months of this year amounted to 55,863 – down by 1.3% compared to the same period in 2010. After adjusting for seasonal fluctuations, the July figure ...

Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 4,337 transactions through the TorontoMLS® system in January 2011. This result was 13 per cent lower than the record result reported in January 2010. The average selling price for January 2011 sales was $427,037, representing an increase of over four per cent compared to the average of $409,058 reported ...

Canada’s Big Six banks, says a new Fitch year-end report, remain, like the country itself, stable, with earnings predicted to remain sound and credit costs manageable.Canada’s long-stable banks remain a source of national pride, with their more traditional lending practices and policies.  Liar’s loans need not apply. ...

According to a new survey by TD Canada Trust, more than two-thirds of repeat homebuyers expect their next house purchase won't be their last. Twenty-three per cent of the more than 1,000 participants -- all repeat homebuyers -- said they plan to move again within six years. One in five repeat buyers has owned more than five homes. All ...

Canadians will be spared a U.S.-style wave of foreclosures when the housing market corrects and interest rates rise, according to a report from DBRS Ltd. examining Canada’s $1-trillion mortgage market. DBRS expects housing prices to fall and acknowledges that the soaring trajectory of consumer debt is worrying. But the debt-rating ...

Toronto housing starts have risen for three months in a row, CMHC says in a report released this week. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of total housing starts rose 13% in October from the month prior, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says, to a total of 34,200 units. Single-detached starts have remained stable, but condo starts have once ...

CMHC says Housing Starts in January were only 153,500 Units Until recently, Canadians had been taking comfort in a high level of monthly housing starts long after they began their decline in the United States. Over the past three months, however, circumstances have changed. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) reports that national ...