{"id":538,"date":"2016-01-08T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:01:16","slug":"gta-vancouver-luxury-home-sales-surge-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/gta-vancouver-luxury-home-sales-surge-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA &#038; Vancouver Luxury Home Sales Surge in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well-heeled homebuyers are making a big splash in two of Canada\u2019s hottest real estate markets, a Sotheby\u2019s report released today suggests, but it\u2019s a different story in other major markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Annual sales of homes (condos, attached, and standalone) carrying price tags greater than $4 million skyrocketed 67% in Vancouver and 71% in the Greater Toronto Area in 2015, according to the realtor\u2019s bi-annual Top-Tier Real Estate Report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These sharp increases in high-end activity were greater than what either market witnessed when it came to dwellings in the $2 to $4 million and $1 to $2 million ranges, says Sotheby\u2019s, which compiled data from MLS systems across four major Canadian markets, including Calgary and Montreal, to create the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, in both those exclusive corners of the GTA and Vancouver markets sales surged, too. For $1 to $2 million abodes, transactions leapt 48% in the GTA and 43% in Vancouver. Further up the price scale, $2 to $4 million sales shot up 41% in the GTA over the past year while soaring 46% higher in BC\u2019s most populous city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the average price of a standalone home in the GTA rising 11.9% to $825,470 and the benchmark price for these homes in Vancouver climbing 24.3% and hitting $1,248,600 last month, it should come as no surprise that million-dollar-plus-home sales tracked higher in both markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the GTA, this came in the shape of a 48% increase in home sales involving properties costing more than $1 million, and these deals were up 46% in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The outlook in the other markets varied. The Sotheby\u2019s report notes \u201cMontreal\u2019s high-end real estate market remained stable in 2015\u201d but \u201cthe downturn in the energy sector, rising unemployment rates and continued economic uncertainty led to shaken consumer confidence, negatively impacting sales\u201d in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residential transactions involving properties that cost over $1 million rose 15% over the year in Montreal, where the median price of a single-family home was $295,000 in December 2015. Sales climbed for homes in the $1 to $2 million range and $2 to $4 million range by 17% and 2% respectively, while they remained flat for $4-million-plus homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Calgary posted declined across the board. Compared to 2014\u2019s numbers,home sales plummeted 41% for million-dollar-plus homes, 39% for the $1 to $2 million category, and 55% for $2 to $4 million digs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clearly, the oil-region metropolis is not a hot market for homes going for more than $4 million either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, only a single home in Calgary sold for over $4 million in all of 2015, an 83% free fall for this kind of activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.buzzbuzzhome.com\/2016\/01\/gta-vancouver-luxury-home-sales-surge-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTA &amp; Vancouver Luxury Home Sales Surge in 2015<\/a> by Josh Sherman | Buzz Buzz Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-heeled homebuyers are making a big splash in two of Canada\u2019s hottest real estate markets, a Sotheby\u2019s report released today suggests, but it\u2019s a different story in other major markets. &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roryc.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/gta-vancouver-luxury-home-sales-surge-in-2015\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GTA &amp; 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