GTA home sales down 47% from last year, 24% from June: Toronto real estate board
Posted: Aug 5th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – The moderation of the Greater Toronto Area’s housing market intensified last month as the region’s real estate board found July sales fell 47 per cent from the same time last year and 24[...]
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March home prices slid from February, but still up from last year: TRREB
Posted: Apr 6th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – Prospective homebuyers in the Toronto region saw a slight dip in home prices last month, but properties were still selling for an average $200,000 more than they were last March. The Toronto Regional[...]
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Rural population growth concentrated near urban centres, StatCan says
Posted: Feb 11th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsCity of Yorkton, Saskatchewan (source: yorkton.ca) Kelly Rae, the administrator of Arran, Sask., says the denizens of dwindling rural communities like her own are clinging to a vanishing way of life in Canada. Between 2011[...]
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Despite COVID 19, census shows population grew at fastest rate in G7, topping 36.9M
Posted: Feb 10th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsOTTAWA – Canada’s population grew at a faster rate than many of its peers, rising to over 36.99 million on census day last year despite a historic slowdown caused by COVID-19. Statistics Canada said the[...]
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Downtown populations climbed faster, though pandemic hampered rate of growth: census
Posted: Feb 10th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsTORONTO – When Mark Garner looks around downtown Toronto all he sees is growth. At Yonge and Gerrard streets, the executive director of the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area watches the lobby of the 80-storey[...]
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TRREB releases 2022 Market Outlook and 2021 Year in Review report
Posted: Feb 5th, 2022In: ConstructionNewsThe market outlook for 2022 is calling for strong home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) with the average selling price expected to hit a new record according to the latest polling conducted for[...]
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Will gyms go the way of arcades and movie rental stores?
Posted: Aug 9th, 2021In: ConstructionNewsTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Going to the gym was always part of Kari Hamra’s routine until last year’s government-ordered shutdowns forced her to replace the workouts with daily rides on her Peloton stationary bike. That’s[...]
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With travel plans cancelled, Atlantic Canadians turn to home renos
Posted: Apr 6th, 2021In: ConstructionNewsTELEGRAPH-JOURNAL When the pandemic closed borders and put a temporary stop to travelling, many Atlantic Canadians took their holiday funds and poured them into home renovations instead. “We were saving up for a trip to[...]
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Bank of Canada keeps key rate at 0.25 per cent, warns of economic decline in 2021
Posted: Jan 21st, 2021In: ConstructionNewsOTTAWA – The Bank of Canada says the national economy will go in reverse for the first quarter of 2021, hammering the hardest-hit workers again on the path to a recovery that rests on the rollout of vaccines. Workers in high-contact service industries[...]
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