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Greater Toronto Area REALTORS(R) reported 4,476 transactions through the TorontoMLS system during the first 14 days of May. This result represented a decline of 9.7 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. Sales declines were larger for the City of Toronto, at 11.4 per cent, versus the surrounding regions where sales were down by 8.6 per cent ...

Total sales for 2011 amounted to 89,347 – up four per cent in comparison to 2010, reported TREB.“Low borrowing costs kept buyers confident in their ability to comfortably cover their mortgage payments along with other major housing costs,” said TREB President Richard Silver. “If buyers had not been constrained by a shortage ...

The interest rate gap between variable rate mortgages and fixed rate mortgages is narrowing.  The rate difference is now under 1%, down from 1.50% a month or so ago.Although the prime rate of 3.00% may not change for a year or so it is now more tempting to lock in a 5 year term fixed rate, especially since it it unlikely that fixed rates ...

      The Bank of Canada kept Canada’s key lending rate at the same place it’s been for a year: 1.00%. As a result, variable-rate mortgage holders can expect prime rate to also stay put at 3.00%.      The BoC said this about its decision: In light of slowing global economic momentum and ...

 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 ...

Construction starts of housing in GTA expected to increase in 2012 after recording a decrease this year.This year, the expected decrease is being blamed on continued strong competition from the resale market and elevated multi-family housing inventories.  The number of sales and the average selling price reported by Greater Toronto ...

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 ...

Fixed Rates:  Have gone up.   5 year term fixed rates range from 3.94% to 4.09% depending on "real deal" vs pre-approval, size of mortgage, and length of time until closing. Variable Rates: Have gone down a little. 5 year variable rate 2.20% (prime minus 0.80%) 3 year variable rate 2.15% The rate used by lenders to ...

The major Canadian banks - CIBC, RBC Royal Bank and TD Canada Trust have increased fixed rate mortgages by 0.25 percentage points to 5.44 per cent.  The banks increased it's one-year fixed rate mortgage 0.15 percentage to 3.5 per cent. The mortgage rates are affected by bond yields. which have also risen as a result of ...

Sales of houses on Toronto MLS are down on a year-over-year basis, which isn’t a surprise. The decline was predicted. Each says last year’s sales were higher than expected because many buyers were brought into the market before the threat of higher fixed mortgage rates became a reality this year, skewing sales figures, thus the large ...