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This week’s top real estate news in Ontario and how your real estate business could be affected.

‘Impossible to say’ what outcome of new housing rules will be: Morneau
Finance Minister Bill Morneau says it’s “impossible to say with absolute clarity” what the impacts of new mortgage rules introduced by Ottawa earlier this month will be.

A foreign buyers tax for Toronto? Three-in-four in the GTA would support following Vancouver’s lead
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Real Estate in the News

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This week’s top real estate news in Ontario and how your real estate business could be affected.

The GTA-wide average price for a detached home has surpassed $1 million
Looking at September resale transactions across both the GTA’s outlying 905 region and its central 416 area, which includes downtown, the average price of a standalone home reached $1,013,788, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board’s latest Market Watch report. That works out to an increase of 23.6 per ...

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Toronto sales to pick up in Q3 – report
The Trimart report stated that a rush of new sales will mark the end of Q3 2016, taking into account the over 30 new openings and releases planned across the city for the fall season.

Agent: Expect further mortgage tightening
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Five things to know about new mortgage rules that came into effect Monday
Homebuyers now have to put at least a down payment of 10 per cent on the portion of the price of a home over $500,000. For anyone buying a home for $700,000 — a common list price in Vancouver and Toronto — that means the minimum down payment will rise ...

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Average home prices to fall in 3 oil-producing provinces next year: CREA
Canada’s national average house price is expected to edge higher by 1.4 per cent in 2016, to $448,700 — with Ontario leading the other regions with an increase of 2.9 per cent. Also read “The housing bubble has already popped in some parts of Canada“.

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