Toronto’s condo market takes yet another plunge
Prices and sales slide again as the condo crisis continues By Fergal McAlinden, 03 Sep. 2026 Sales and prices are on the way down again in Toronto’s condo market, with new Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) data showing the sector’s downturn is dragging on. The number of condos sold last month fell by 2.6% across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), tumbling to 1,330 as both the city centre and wider 905 region posted declines. Prices, meanwhile, slipped by 3.6%, spurred by a big drop...
read moreInsider: The GTA’s Industrial Vacancy Just Hit A Wall
”If you’ve been sitting on a lease expiry hoping for one more quarter of softening before you commit, here’s the uncomfortable part: the conditions that produced two years of tenant leverage are unwinding, and Peel is leading that shift, rather than lagging it.” Guest Author: Harjaap Singh Makkar, Colliers, September 03, 2026 For the better part of two years, the smartest move for a tenant with an industrial lease coming due in the GTA was to do nothing. Every quarter...
read moreCanada now sixth among ‘most rent-entrenched nations’
Forever renters are no longer a niche group, they’re shaping how an entire generation lives, decorates and invests in their homes. Paul Barker Special to Postmedia Network, Published Sep 04, 2026 The renting forever syndrome across Canada is alive, well and showing no signs of diminishing, results of a new global study reveal. Conducted by Australian furniture retailer Luxo Living, the company’s Forever Renter Global Index released last month analyzed housing data from 39 countries that...
read moreSix charts that explain Canada’s incoming countertariffs on U.S. goods
By: Jason Kirby and Dexter McMillan, Updated September 6, 2026 On Tuesday, Canada is set to slap countertariffs on roughly $28-billion of U.S. goods, ranging from carpets and cutlery to radiators and steel rods, barring a last-minute deal between the two countries. The duties, which would cover hundreds of items, are scheduled to come into effect at 12:01 a.m. Ottawa has said it designed the tariffs as a tit-for-tat response to President Donald Trump’s use of Section 338 of the Tariff Act of...
read moreWEEK OF SEPTEMBER 7, EVENTS WITH JILLIAN KATZENBACK
Events for the week of September 7, 2026 LPMA Golf – Skyline Charity Golf Classic – 2026 RHPNS Golf Tournament – 2026 Breast Ball Charity Golf – MAC Awards – ARLA Webinars – 3rd Annual Tycos Drive Trade Day – 2026 Informa Buildings Show – 2026 ACMO – CCI Condo Conference – HDAA Dinner Meeting – CHBA National Awards – 2026 Alberta Buildex...
read moreSingle-family homes, not condos are ‘prime beneficiary’ of HST rebate
Rachelle Younglai, Real Estate Reporter, Published August 27, 2026 Sales of new single-family homes in the Toronto region in July reached the highest level in five years, with buyers taking advantage of the 13-per-cent HST rebate. The tax break has been in effect for four months and houses and townhouses have been the main draw, not newly built condos as the Ontario and federal governments had intended. The two levels of government implemented the temporary policy to help developers get rid of...
read more‘Eviscerated’: US President Donald Trump fumes over defiant Canada’s move
The one country that called Donald Trump’s bluff and didn’t blink is hopelessly outnumbered – and yet somehow still winning. By Jamie Seidel, August 30, 202 ANALYSIS “They are one of the worst countries in the world to deal with … and this has gone on for many years,” US President Donald Trump accused. Canada’s being difficult. Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to “bend the knee”. But he’s being polite about it. “We cannot accept what the US has offered,” he writes, “and we will not give...
read moreThe swing of young families away from Toronto needs to stop
It will take a determined shift in policy, and attitudes, to stop the exodus of families with children from Canada’s biggest city By The Editorial Board, The Globe and Mail, August 30, 2026 In May, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow cut the ribbon on a new building that will deliver 255 rental apartments, 51 of them with below-market rents. It’s a sign of the times that this, the construction of a single midrise building, is seen as a success in a dynamic city of 3.3 million. But it is. Homebuilding in...
read moreB.C. caps residential rent increases at 2.2% in 2027
This is the seventh consecutive year that the B.C. government has capped annual residential rent increases at or below inflation Glen Korstrom, Aug 27, 2026 The B.C. government is capping the maximum allowable annual rent increase that landlords can charge residential tenants at 2.2 per cent starting Jan. 1, 2027. That is down from the 2.3 per cent maximum increase allowed this year, and marks the seventh consecutive year where the maximum allowable increase has been capped at or below...
read moreWEEK OF AUGUST 31, EVENTS WITH JILLIAN KATZENBACK
Events for the week of August 31, 2026 LPMA Golf – Skyline Charity Golf Classic – 2026 RHPNS Golf Tournament – 2026 Breast Ball Charity Golf – MAC Awards – ARLA Golf Event– ARLA Webinar – 3rd Annual Tycos Drive Trade Day – 2026 Informa Buildings Show – 2026 ACMO – CCI Condo Conference – HDAA Dinner Meeting – CHBA National Awards – 2026 Alberta Buildex...
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