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Buyer confidence is always the wild card. We have seen this time and time again, but most recently in the early days of the pandemic: the market ground to a halt and the buyers brave enough to venture out were looking for deals.
That momentary seize up was a blip, it turned out. Once people realized that the pandemic discounts weren’t holding, the market fired back up again.
If you look at the actual TRREB data, as Ackerley did, you will see that in spite of new listings more than doubling since Sept. 1, the number of sales once averaged out to account for the wild summer has stayed relatively consistent.
So, the main thing to watch now is what happens with the inventory balance on the condo market. We need to see how long it takes for this surge of new listings to slow and eventually absorb.
“It’s true the landscape is different, but rest assured, this market is very strong for many reasons, increased population, diverse economy, stable political system, etc. The market is going to rebound. This sort of thing has happened so many times in the past where something causes the market to stall, the media scares everyone, then there’s a period of adjustment, and by the time the masses figure it out, prices are [on the rise] again.”
Only time will tell, clearly, but I think we’d all do well to take a beat before declaring impending calamity on the real estate front.
In the meantime, you may have questions and if our chat is any indication, Rob Ackerley surely has answers. Shoot him a note at [email protected] – I know I will be.
Brynn Lackie is a sales representative at Chestnut Park Real Estate Ltd.
