At the risk of being called LAZY and/or Boring, I’ll re-use my Nov 2-21 sizzling insights re: INVENTORY as the ONLY thing …. and the reasons why it’s so low unclebobexplains / December 12, 2021 INVENTORY 63-68% BELOW average ADJUSTED for “TERMINATED & Re-listed” New Listings: are 18% Below AVERAGE — NOT the +7 to +11% ABOVE…

BIG GAINS EVERY MONTH – 2% Mortgages with 3%-6% Inflation WILL DO THAT SCHOOL YEAR again — but showing TWO-YR Ave Price Change TrREB’s Bar Charts show BIG JUMP in Orange Compared to Blue -& Steady as she goes Ron Hauth’s LOOOOONG View – and CAD Trendline

Often I use the Jan-Dec ‘Calendar year’ view first – but the Lull approaching/during the Seasonal Holiday School Break is the REASON I created the Sept-Aug “Fiscal Yr-like” view — so that the Fall Rally, Yr-End Lull and Spring Market are not hidden See what I mean? TrREB’s Bar Chart obscures the Great December just…

REPEATING Commentary from Nov 2021 — Inflation IS a factor! Do you recall when C.o.l. Allowance’s were part of every labour contract? (Cost of Living Allowance) Prices are almost Straight up — is that the push or the pull that motivates ‘everyone’ to buy a 2nd, 3rd property? or to put 20% down (5%, 5%,…

December for GTA/ TrREB reporting area had two parts (no charts sorry) The First half (HOT – it looked like Dec was going to be 7,000 sales almost equally last yr’srecord Dec of 7154) and the Year-End Holiday Seasons (Cool – ended up at 6,031 sales a very respectable second-best ever) I’m writing this on…

A colleague asked me why all the Realty Firms and bloggers were saying the same thing in Jan 2021 He had just written a 3 pager on how, why, what and when of last few months .. So I said  If it seems they copied your piece — then every other RE-LA-Tor in North America copied…