Toronto condo market hits 35-year low as sales continue to plunge with ‘no new project launches’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/toronto-condo-market-hits-35-year-low-as-sales-continue-to-plunge-with-no-new-project-launches/

28 Comments

  1. Maybe if they started putting 2 maybe even 3 of these dog crate condos together to make some actual living space people would want to buy them

  2. Build a 1200-1800sq condo units and sell them for 600-900k depending on finishes and they will sell the fuck out.

  3. Nerevarine123 on

    Its a good thing, condos are great for lower income and middle income canadians. Not everyone should be able to own a detached home and thats okay

  4. UWO_Throw_Away on

    You know what would be great is if a little more money was spent on insulation between floors so I don’t have to hear my neighbors above and below me every time they open a window or shout at their tv when watching sports

  5. Ok. No more BS about building new homes to reduce prices. We have lots of inventory.

  6. kingwoodballs on

    I was in Toronto a couple weeks ago. By brother in law air bnb’d a condo on York st. The view was kick ass of the stadium and CN tower.
    But the entire place was literally the size of the kitchen in my 1100 sqft bungalow. I don’t know how anyone could live full time in a place like that.

  7. The condo market is dead. Buyer don’t want to buy and developers don’t want to develop.

    It’s a lose/lose project right now.

  8. Adventurous-Hand3942 on

    They should go in and tear down the walls between the units and turn these 500sqft condos into a 3 bedroom condos. Then they would sell.

  9. Classic-Perspective5 on

    Condos never made sense, you still have property taxes in addition to condo fees so after ten or fifteen years aren’t you just paying rent again?

  10. askanewquestions on

    I mean someone already said it above but even pop culture wise, just like Shane Hollander suggested in heated rivalry before sucking ilyas face off, break down the walls between units and make it into a livable affordable unit.

  11. thedrivingfrog on

    35 yr low (but not on price just some random sales stat …) prices of all real estate needs to go down and I own, everything is redicolously expensive for the quality.

  12. Green_new_dinner on

    so a great time to move these into gov subsidized coops or rent to own situations

  13. Realistic-Buy4975 on

    Build homes, not investments. There are very few people who want to live in a 600 sqft $660k shoebox that costs close to 2.5k/mo if you rent. If condos were minimum 1400sqft for 500k some people (not all) would consider it.

  14. Rich-Needleworker304 on

    Problem is new projects means new supply. So no new supply in Toronto for probably a decade coming.

  15. Euclidisthebomb on

    Finally consumers have no more interest in shitboxes and investors are akin to Putin and hated as much. Which hopefully will bring some sanity back to the market although much needs to be done yet such as banning corporate ownership of single family property whether homes/townhomes or condos.

  16. It work for 20 years you buy and resell before completion. People got Greedy and bought 4 or 5 at a time . Hoping to resell before closing . I feel no pity for them . Hope some young people will get a brake . Most likely to just be bought out by other investors

  17. So a lot of builders started to hold on to inventory suites to sell. Well turns out they can’t. So instead of dropping prices, City of Toronto is now buying them out on bulk at a discount for affordable housing.

  18. Now would probably be a VERY good time to start planning a project or proper sized living space condos.

    It takes time to ramp up construction so by the time the market bottoms you’d look like a genius having it ready by the time demand starts to heat up again.

  19. devioustrevor on

    Because developers got too comfortable building one-room condos that were clearly meant for AirBnB’s.

    Regular families can’t live in those.