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We help GTA buyers and sellers make decisions based on facts, not fear.

📍 Serving Toronto & The GTA 📉 Market Analyst & strategist 🏡 Ali Bolourchi and ABRE Team of eXp Realty Brokerage, specializes in residential and commercial real estate in Toronto and the GTA. Our expert agents offer exclusive listings of really affordable homes and more high-end homes, villas, and condos along with investment, commercial and industrial ones. We provide comprehensive real estate services, including home evaluations and personalized assistance for buyers and sellers seeking premium properties.

09/25/2026

Seven investors bought 204 new Toronto area condos in a single quarter. They paid about $773 a square foot. The asking price on comparable completed units was around $1,186.

That is roughly 35 per cent below asking, for buying in bulk.

It is worth knowing about even if you will never buy 200 units, because it changes what you are competing with. If you own one investor condo and you are trying to sell it, some of the inventory beside you is being cleared at institutional pricing.

For context, those 204 units were part of 702 total new condo sales across the GTHA last quarter, which was up 52 per cent year over year and the first annual gain since 2023. Strip the bulk deals out and there were still 498 sales, up 8 per cent. So it is not only the funds.

None of this says sell, hold, or do anything in particular. It says know the number before you set yours.

Were you pricing against this, or against last year?

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09/24/2026

Toronto's average asking rent is down almost 2 per cent from a year ago. Three bedroom asking rents are up 3.5 per cent.

Both of those are true at the same time, which is exactly why the city average is a bad guide to what your unit should ask.

August 2026 asking rents on newly listed units: the Toronto average was $2,571, down 1.8 per cent year over year. Two bedrooms were $2,939, up 0.3 per cent. Three bedrooms were $3,642, up 3.5 per cent.

Note the word asking. These are rents on new listings, not what sitting tenants are paying. Very different number.

So if you own a three bedroom and you were about to drop your price because you read that Toronto rents are falling, you would be cutting into a segment that is actually rising.

Before you cut, check what your unit type is doing. Are you pricing off your own category or off a headline?

416-886-2000 or https://ali.realtor

09/23/2026

As of Monday, a notice for unpaid rent in Ontario can set a termination date seven days out. It used to be fourteen.

That is a real change and it is worth both sides understanding it properly, because a lot of what is being said about it is wrong.

What changed: the minimum notice period in section 59 of the Residential Tenancies Act.

What did not change: only the Landlord and Tenant Board can order an eviction. A notice is not an eviction. And paying the full arrears, plus any rent that came due since, before the landlord applies to the Board still makes the notice void. That rule was untouched.

So for landlords, a notice with the wrong date gets thrown out, which means using the current form matters more now, not less. For tenants, the clock is shorter but the off ramp is the same one that was always there.

Whichever side of this you are on, get advice from a paralegal or a lawyer rather than from a comment section.

416-886-2000 or https://ali.realtor

09/22/2026

King would need more than 11 months to sell what is currently listed. Markham would need four.

Same region. Same month. Completely different market.

That is months of inventory, and it is one of the few numbers that tells you what kind of race you are actually in. Under about four months, sellers have the upper hand. Past six, buyers do. York Region as a whole sits at five.

Which means the regional average describes almost nobody. If you are listing in King you are in a patient market and your price has to respect that. List in Markham and you are in a much tighter one.

The mistake is reading a GTA headline and assuming it applies to your street.

Do you know what your own municipality's number is right now?

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09/21/2026

Eight in ten. That is how many GTA homes bought three to five years ago and resold this year went for less than the owner paid.

Worth being precise about who that number describes, because it is not every seller. It is the people who bought in that window and actually sold. For them the median gap was about $130,000.

Here is the part that matters if you are thinking about listing. A loss on paper only becomes real the day you sign. Until then you have options, and they are worth comparing honestly: sell now, rent it out, or wait.

What nobody should do is price off what the home was worth in 2022. Price off what is selling on your street this month.

Have you actually run those three options side by side, or just assumed one of them?

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09/18/2026

Your lender stress tests one number. Nobody stress tests the rest.

The mortgage payment gets modelled, qualified and approved. The heating bill, the groceries, the insurance and the commute do not. They come out of exactly the same paycheque, and right now they are all moving.

That is why two homes at the same asking price can be very different to live in. Age, insulation, windows, how far you drive every day. None of it appears on the listing and all of it appears on your monthly statements.

It is not an argument against buying. It is an argument for budgeting on what a home costs to run, not only what it costs to buy.

What would your budget look like if you priced the whole thing?

Full breakdown: https://blog.ali.realtor/post/global-turbulence-impact-on-homebuyers

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09/17/2026

Your lease renewal shows up, and you sign it. Most business owners do.

Worth remembering what you just signed. For most small businesses rent is the second biggest cost line there is, behind payroll. And the renewal you signed without discussion was probably negotiated once, years ago, under conditions that no longer exist.

The rate is negotiable. So is a great deal more than the rate: free rent, the improvement allowance, the escalation schedule, and the renewal option that decides how much leverage you have next time.

None of that gets discussed if the renewal is treated as a form.

When did you last actually negotiate yours?

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09/16/2026

If you are shopping above three million in Toronto, the math changed on April 1.

City Council amended the Municipal Land Transfer Tax in December 2025, and as of April 1, 2026 the portion of the price above $3 million is taxed on a new graduated scale. It starts at 4.40 per cent and climbs from there. Below $3 million, nothing changed.

Here is the part that catches people. It is a City of Toronto tax. It does not apply in Markham, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Aurora or Newmarket. Those buyers pay the provincial land transfer tax only.

On a purchase in this range that difference is not a rounding error.

This is a tax fact, not tax advice, and your lawyer will give you the exact figure for your deal. But it should be in the conversation before you write the offer, not after.

Were you aware the line had moved?

416-886-2000 or https://gtaluxuryhomes.ca

09/15/2026

Most first-time buyers pick one. You are allowed to use both.

The First Home Savings Account lets you contribute $8,000 a year up to a $40,000 lifetime maximum. The RRSP Home Buyers' Plan lets you withdraw up to $60,000, repaid over 15 years. Since April 2024 that withdrawal limit went up, and a lot of people are working off the old number.

They can be used on the same purchase.

That is the part that surprises people. Two separate programs, one down payment.

We are not mortgage brokers or accountants, and how these interact in your situation is genuinely a conversation for one. But you cannot ask about a program nobody told you existed.

Which one had you heard of?

416-886-2000 or https://ali.realtor

09/14/2026

Everyone waiting for more choice is quietly getting less of it.

In August, GTA new listings fell 14.1 per cent. That is almost 2,000 fewer homes coming to market than the same month last year. Sales barely moved by comparison, down 2.1 per cent.

So the pool you get to choose from is shrinking faster than the crowd you are competing with.

Prices did soften, down 2.7 per cent on the average. That is the part everyone reads. The part almost nobody reads is that the selection softened a lot harder.

If you have been waiting for the perfect listing to show up, where exactly is it supposed to show up from?

Full August breakdown: https://blog.ali.realtor/post/gta-real-estate-august-2026-market-insights

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