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Record Toronto price gap between house & condo means Canadian value is falling apart or what ?

September 25, 2013 6:08 pm
Condo, Detached Home, Market

In Canada these days, anyone with a detached home is automatically classified as Super Rich (even their “shack” is located in a rough neighborhood).

Those who own condos are technically “Property Slaves”.Ā Well, it looks like condo buyers are not likely be able to afford anything else and gotta retire with whatever shoexbox they may own (averaging $600,000 for a decent 700 square feet in Toronto). That also provided they can keep themselves employed forever …Ā Don’t forget maintenance fees ofĀ most condos are constantly escalating at 10% or so every year (even for new condos that hardly require any real maintenance) … Search for things like “Every Condo is Potentially A Fraud” and “The Khan Condo Scam” etc. if you have no idea what is happening.

As for those renting still … I am sorry, renting could be the only option you may have forever.

Alternatively, you may want to consider to move to Detroit or perhaps outposts inĀ some other Fourth, Fifth, or whatever else World. Forget about the Third World, chances are you can’t afford any home in the Third World either eg. apartments in Hong Kong already costs as much, if not more than those in elite Manhattan, New York Ā … A 600 square feet “low class” flat (those with undies hanging on bamboo pole sticking out of the window like the one depicted below) willĀ set you back about US$1 million bucks each.

Cost of home ownership

The record price gap between detached homes and condos in Toronto may well have an interesting impact on the housing market.

As The Globe and Mail’s Tara Perkins reports, that gap has now hit a record $222,149, based on a RealNet measure that shows the cost of a low-rise home in the Toronto area has reached $658,938, compared to a condo at $436,789.

ā€œEight years ago you could have bought both a low-rise and high-rise property for the price of the former today,ā€ senior economist Sal Guatieri of BMO Nesbitt Burns said today.

ā€œLand constraints have driven detached home prices higher, while smaller unit sizes have dampened condo demand.ā€

This could bolster the condo market and, at the same time, keep a lid on the cost of a house.

ā€œGoing forward, the large premium on detached homes should push more buyers into the condo market, where sales are down 18 per cent from a year ago, thereby stemming the upward pressure on detached home prices,ā€ Mr. Guatieri said.

(For Mr. Guatieri’s research, see accompanying infographic orĀ click here.)

Detached homeĀ in Toronto posh neighborhood suffers a wardrobe malfunction, sorry, I mean massive price drop.

ALLENBYĀ – 32 Castlwood Road

This 3+1 bedroom, 3 bathroom house on a 25 x 110 foot lot atĀ 32 Castlewood Road in Allenby was listed just over 2 weeks ago for $1,299,000. Ā The price was dropped last week to $1,090,000.
ItĀ soldĀ …Ā For $1,025,000.
That’s a whopping 22% Discount !
But they said this is not a true reflection of the current market situation. The truth is this house is poorly flipped with ultra cheap renovations . That’s why ?

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