The above chart shows the latest data on downtown Toronto condo sales from the Toronto Real Estate board for March 2011 as it compares to March 2010. C01 is considered ‘downtown west’ and C08 is considered downtown east.
A few observations:
- Downtown west is always the most relevant data to look at when gauging the downtown condo market. The vast majority of sales downtown are in downtown west (C01). Downtown East (C08) is not great to look at on a month-to-month basis as sample sizes are quite small. It is quite common to see very different trends in downtown east versus downtown west (as is the case this month)
- Active listings are up, but so are sales and prices in Downtown west
- On average, prices have gone up about 6.6% since last year at this time in Downtown west
- The downtown west market once again outperforms the overall Toronto Real Estate market (where are you planning on investing this year?). Sales for GTA are DOWN 11%, and prices up 5%
- It’s still basically a seller’s market in both downtown east and west with the sales: listings ratio still hovering around 50%. Anecdotally, the number of ‘quality listings’ remains incredibly thin, while “investor” buildings have plenty of units available for sale.
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