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The pandemic housing craze is fuelling another boom: reverse mortgages

The pandemic housing craze is fuelling another boom: reverse mortgages © GettyImages Low interest rates and skyrocketing housing prices are fuelling demand for reverse mortgages. With interest rates at rock bottom and home prices skyrocketing, reverse mortgages are losing their stigma. Once considered by many a last-ditch solution for cash-strapped seniors, reverse mortgages have been growing in popularity for years. But the housing boom that s taken hold in much of Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic is giving reverse-mortgage lenders yet another boost. Money 123: Weighing the costs and benefits of reverse mortgages Replay Video HomeEquity Bank (HEB), by far the largest and oldest of the two reverse mortgage providers in Canada, saw 14 per cent growth in loan originations during the last quarter of 2020, according to Yvonne Ziomecki, who heads marketing and consumer sales operations at the bank.

Toronto condo renters, buyers landed negotiating power as Q4 prices dropped: TRREB

The increase in supply.resulted in much more choice and bargaining power for buyers and a moderate decline in average selling prices, TRREB president Lisa Patel said in a statement. Patel also noticed the market tipped in favour of renters, who had plenty of properties that sat on the market for weeks or months to choose from. Her observations encompass the last few months of 2020 a period when the Greater Toronto Area was staring down tougher COVID-19 lockdowns, the looming possibility of a tax on vacant units and a softening of the short-term rental market triggered by travel bans and work from home orders.

Condo apartment rentals in Toronto more than doubled at the end of last year

Condo apartment rentals in Toronto more than doubled at the end of last year Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. While new rules for Airbnbs were introduced in Toronto and swaths of people moved elsewhere amid lockdown and work-from-home orders, vacancy rates reached record highs and average rent prices plummeted over the course of 2020, rendering the notoriously pricey city a better place for tenants than it has been in some time. Renting an apartment in Toronto became cheaper than in Vancouver for the first time in years, and even more affordable than in other parts of the GTA, with some landlords going as far as offering special incentives to make the deals all the more sweet.

GTA condo sales and rentals surge in fourth quarter while prices drop, says TRREB

by The Canadian Press Last Updated Jan 27, 2021 at 10:10 am ADT TORONTO The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says condominium apartment sales and rentals in the region surged in the fourth quarter, while average selling and rental prices fell. The board says there were 6,469 condominium apartment sales in the final three months of 2020, up 20.7 per cent from 5,358 sales in the same quarter a year earlier. The number of new condo listings increased 92 per cent to 12,298, from 6,407 new listings in the fourth quarter of 2019. The number of active listings more than doubled to 4,294. The average selling price for condos fell 1.1 per cent to reach $610,044 in the quarter, down from $616,771 a year earlier. Average selling prices in the city of Toronto decreased 2.4 per cent to $644,516.

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