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Barrie tops other Ontario cities in price growth

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Barrie tops other Ontario cities in price growth

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"Many people are fleeing the city and province for lower-priced real estate, which is causing boom in other places.

Home prices are increasing across Ontario, notes the March edition of the Semi-Annual State of the Housing Market report from Mortgage Professionals Canada.

"Price growth across Ontario has been rapid, with Toronto stealing most of the headlines," the report states. "But in fact, many other communities in the province are seeing higher growth, particularly the regions around Toronto."

Despite the skyrocket prices in Toronto, the city has among the lowest price growth over the last two years of major Ontario population centres. This doesn't mean prices aren't high, it just means they were already inflated and other cities are seeing bigger jumps.

Barrie tops the list with price growth coming in around 35 per cent in 2021, followed by London and Kitchener-Waterloo over 30 per cent. Kingston, Hamilton-Burlington, Oakville and Ottawa are all just under 30 per cent. Toronto's growth is one of the lowest on the list close to Mississauga at around 20 per cent growth."
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Deal Guru
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I don't expect that trend will continue.
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Clicked the link, and followed through to the actual report. Was curious why they cited Oakville and Sauga, when both those lagged others last year. Some York saw higher hpi growth according to trreb, and a whack of Durham outgrew them both. Strange, either the data sets don't match, or the report cherry picked comparables. Report wasn't clear why they cited the locations they did.

Edit - this sort of annoys me and maybe in a bit I can dig deeper. The article says Barrie tops the list. The actual report doesn't characterize it that that way. The actual report just says other areas outside tor appreciated more, and shows a chart with a handful of locations. They aren't identified as the ordered top Ontario areas, maybe they are, or they could just be random selections.

But because of this article, now the Barrie people at work are gonna go on about their appreciation.
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Can't make head or tails of this stuff. The actual report being cited is vague at best. The Van number is 12.7% growth on page 12 but they don't say what metric, the number in the chart on pg 30 is somewhere around 25% by HPI. The Tor numbers dont have the same discrepancy in the two charts, in fact all 4 cities seem to match in the 2 charts except VAN. Would they really mix VAN's hard med/avg (or some other number) with the other cities' HPI? I hope not but it's odd.

As for Barrie, the local real estate board numbers don't match the report either. The reports chart on pg 30 seems to be showing a barrie number somewhere over 35%. The Barrie District market stats for dec 2021 show the average gained 30.9%, the HPI for I'm guessing the Barrie Simcoe region was 38.8%, and the HPI for just Barrie under 30%. Nothing from the Barrie association matches the chart in the report.

The Barrie association cites a YoY HPI gain of 29.2%, which we can compare with TRREB. Except for Burlington, ALL TRREB areas beat Barrie.

Like, all of them. Every Jurisdiction except 1 beat Barrie's HPI gain. Could call Sauga a tie, even though it was ahead by 1%.

Now, perhaps I'm misunderstanding how these sources are defining major cities in Ontario (oakville?), or how they define toronto (the city or the TRREB region?). But either way, don't read that link thinking Barrie outperformed everyone. Don't say you read it on Blog TO. They lagged the gains in every suburb in York, Durham, Peel and almost all of Halton.

Like by double digits for many.

Don't Blog TO your day today.
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sircheersa wrote: I don't expect that trend will continue.
How come? More so than other cities nearish to Toronto?

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