New Year Off To Good Start
A strong performance within TREB’s Central districts drove the Toronto area real estate market to a healthy 5,073 sales in January, off just two per cent from last year’s record performance, President Maureen O’Neill announced today.
“While sales were strong, price increases remained modest, with the average rising six per […]

Canadian real estate market tops $100 billion
The Canadian housing market soared to record levels in 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), with new listings, average price and dollar volume in Canada’s major markets all reaching their highest annual levels ever.
Existing home sales hit $118.3 billion for the […]

Toronto real estate prices rose 9% last year, continuing a decade-long rise amid fresh concerns the market might cool in 2008.
“I think we had a phenomenal year and it will be difficult to duplicate,” said Jane Renwick, executive vice-president of Urbanation, which issues a quarterly research report on Toronto’s condo market.
The average sale price of […]

This year’s transactions to top at least 90,000
The November housing market was the hottest on record in the GTA, the Toronto Real Estate Board said today and 2007 is poised to set a record year overall, with transactions to top at least 90,000 — breaking the old record of 84,000 in 2005.
The president of the […]

About RealEstatePlus.ca
An estimated 80% of Canadians begin their search for a new home on the internet. Finding a new home is a major life decision. RealEstatePlus.ca was created to assist the user in that process by offering Canadians access to the most innovative tools and the best available information when they undertake this important step.
RealEstatePlus.ca […]

realestateplus.ca vs mls.ca
A new website, RealEstatePlus, is now publishing the TorontoMLS listings. The listings on the web site come from the Toronto Real Estate Board MLS database. The listings are updated once every few hours with information provided by all Toronto real estate agents. This information includes the listing description, photographs, interactive maps, demographic data […]

Finally, an INTELLIGENT home search
A new Toronto website, RealEstatePlus.ca, has taken the power of Web 2.0 and applied it to real estate. It brings accurate, immediate, easy residential real estate search directly to your home or mobile phone. And, with the complete MLS® database, it presents specific property details for all of the homes for […]

Fix-’em-up shows get a makeover
The slump in the American housing market could leave cable television networks with potential fixer-uppers on their hands.
Home improvement shows continue to saturate the dial but, with the housing heyday long over, networks may be looking to retool their content.
Anna Gecan, vice-president of content for HGTV Canada, says property shows generally […]

Housing crash in US could soon ripple here: Turner
Canada’s booming housing market could feel a chill by the end of the year, thanks to a real estate crash and mortgage crisis south of the border. As up to a million and a half US homeowners walk away from their houses and mortgages, the result has […]

Trulia’s on top of real estate search
Trulia.com, the Internet’s leading real estate search engine, announced today that the company ranks alongside Google and Yahoo! search engines as one of the top three contributors of traffic to real estate companies. According to the latest data released by online competitive intelligence service company Hitwise, Trulia was a […]