Entries by Roy Bhandari

Guest Post – Sales and Average Prices Continue to Heat Up for Toronto Condo Buyers

By Sheila O’Hearn, Zoocasa Strong condo sales and price growth continue to sizzle in Toronto real estate. Condominium apartment sales in the third quarter of 2016 were up by 22.1 percent on a year-over-year basis to 8,014, reported through the Toronto Real Estate Board’s (TREB) MLS® System. Over the same period, new listings for condominium…

Toronto Condo Highlights From Another Record Year in 2016

2016 was another great year in the Toronto condo market. In a recent report by Urbanation, we saw the cost of a GTA Condo rise 12% in 2016.  As we discovered in that previous report and from our own findings, the trend of short supply is continuing to increase prices in the downtown core. We…

Comparing The Late 80’s GTA Condo Market Crash To Today

There is an ongoing debate regarding a potential housing market crash in Toronto. Many analysts are able to draw parallels to housing crises in the past and are finding many similarities.

The Fastest Growing Condo Cities Outside Toronto

The GTA is one of the fastest growing regions in Canada. With such a dense population in the downtown core, the urban sprawl has seen immense growth in many nearby cities such as Vaughan and Mississauga. While pre-construction condos have cluttered Toronto’s skyline with cranes, there are several other pockets outside the GTA that have…

Hot Condos in the Mississauga City Centre

There has been a large influx in the number of hot Mississauga pre-construction condos over the last few years. From the downtown core of Toronto, you can easily identify Mississauga by the cluster of towering buildings and condominiums standing to the west. However, that wasn’t always the case. Around 10 years ago, the skyline of…

The Continuing Growth Of Toronto’s Condo Market

The Toronto Condo market is seeing huge growth in recent months. Many potential investors are wondering if this is still a good time to invest in a Toronto condo. In this post, we will examine some of the factors affecting the rise of Toronto condo market and better determine if now is the time to…

How We Analyze A New Condo Project Location

When investing in a pre-construction condo in Toronto, it almost always comes down to the location. Recent trends tell us that jobs are making a major shift back into Toronto and the younger generation are willing to give up large lots and homes for increased convenience to:

Guest Post – Can Condos Work for Growing Families?

Home buyers needing room to grow have even fewer options within the City of Toronto, according to the latest market numbers. The Toronto Real Estate Board’s November report finds the average detached house price in the 416 has hit $1,345,962 – a 32.2% leap from last year.

Toronto’s $1.25 Billion Commitment to Revitalizing Port Lands

As we know, free space is scarce in Toronto’s downtown core. New condominiums, towers continue, and population are consistently on the rise, and space continues to diminish. This has forced city planners and developers to get creative with their upcoming projects. The latest projects involve innovative – and expensive – way of creating and revitalizing…

Video Interview – TalkCondo Discuss Home Condos with Christopher Wein

Amit Bhandari of TalkCondo interviews Christopher Wein, the president of Great Gulf Homes – one of Toronto’s top condo developers ahead of the launch for Home Condos at Power & Adelaide Wein highlights Great Gulf’s incredible track record of pioneering new neighbourhoods by entering markets before any developer Great Gulf were the first major developer in the Entertainment…

Video Interview – TalkCondo Discuss Axis Condos ahead of Launch with Shamez Virani

Roy Bhandari from TalkCondo interviews Shamez Virani, the President of CentreCourt Developments to introduce Axis Condominiums Shamez explains the four areas that distinguish CentreCourt Developments from other builders in Toronto The process on how CentreCourt reverse engineer their condominiums to meet the needs of the people that will eventually live in the suites Why Yonge & College…