Ontario housing market

• Ontario Greens propose tax on domestic buyers of multiple homes

  Ontario's Green Party is proposing a tax on domestic homebuyers with multiple properties as a measure to reduce housing demand.

  Canada

  Apr 27
  
• Health care, pocketbook issues among top priorities for Ontario voters: Ipsos poll

  Health care and pocketbook issues are the top issues that Ontarians say will help them determine how to vote in the upcoming election, a new Ipsos poll has found.

  Politics

  Apr 26
  
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• Analysis: Rising rates to cool Ontario housing market more than pre-election promises

  Ontario is moving to rein in surging home prices with populist measures like a bigger foreign-buyer tax, but economists warn rising interest rates are likely to do most of the work

  Canada

  Apr 6
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• Home prices under ‘full-scale attack’ as interest rates, taxes rise: economist

  Home prices across the country could drop as the Bank of Canada ratchets up interest rates and provinces target real estate speculators, a BMO analyst projects.

  Money

  Mar 30
• Changes to foreign buyers tax unlikely to quell Ontario market, real estate experts say

  Real estate experts say Ontario's decision to increase and expand its foreign buyers tax won't do much to cool the province's hot real estate market.

  Canada

  Mar 30
• Ontario introduces new legislation to increase housing supply in province

  Ontario’s housing minister introduced new legislation on Wednesday, aimed at increasing the supply of housing in the province.

  Canada

  Mar 30
• Around 40% of parents of young Ontario homeowners helped children with purchase: poll

  The poll also showed that nearly 90 per cent of Ontario parents agree that it's more difficult to buy a home today compared to when they were younger.

  Canada

  Feb 22
• Ontario housing task force recommends ways to boost home supply

  Ontario needs to quickly and aggressively build more homes to address the province's housing crisis, by increasing density, and limiting consultations and appeals.

  Canada

  Feb 8
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• Premier Doug Ford kicks off housing summit with funding to help municipalities cut red tape

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched a virtual housing summit with a promise of funds to help the province's largest municipalities speed up development approvals.

  Canada

  Jan 19
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• Toronto experiences record population loss as more move away from city amid COVID-19 pandemic

  Over the course of the year studied, Toronto experienced a loss of 50,375 as people moved to surrounding cities, according to Statistics Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 14, 2021