August appears to have cemented the Toronto region’s real estate recovery, with average resale home prices up 4.7 per cent year over year to $765,270, including single-family homes and highrise apartments. That is about $34,000 higher than the average a year ago.There were also about 500 more transactions — an 8.5 per cent increase — compared to August 2017.The number of detached-house sales increased 19.2 per cent in the 905 areas outside of Toronto to $907,780 on average. Detached homes also saw a 12.3 per cent jump in sales in the City of Toronto, where they sold for $1.24 million on average. The average Toronto-area resale condo price also rose 6.4 per cent to $541,106. The number of sales, however, remained flat overall, increasing 0.7 per cent year over year in August. The gains are a sign that buyers are finally stepping back into the market in the latter half of this year as the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) had predicted, said Garry Bhaura, board president. “Many home buyers, who had initially moved to the sidelines due to the Ontario Fair Housing Plan and new mortgage lending guidelines, have renewed their search for a home and are getting deals done much more so than last year,” he said in a press release.Tight market conditions contributed to the strong August, said the board’s director of market analysis, Jason Mercer.“The annual rate of sales growth outpaced the annual rate of new listings. We only have slightly more than two-and-a-half months of inventory in the TREB market as a whole and less than two months of inventory in the City of Toronto,” he said, adding that there is a dearth of homes available to buy in many neighbourhoods. “This could present a problem if demand continues to accelerate over the next year, which is expected,” said Mercer.Read more:New-build home sales slow as prices remain stableSupreme Court dismisses real estate board’s appeal application on sold data ...
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