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Toronto Real Estate and The Toronto Star

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:44:53 +0000

some areas more than 50% selling over asking price

Should the Toronto Star being publishing these types of articles about Toronto Real Estate. Here’s a link the Toronto Star published last week about the bidding wars on Toronto Real Estate

Toronto Real Estate and The Toronto Star.

My personal opinion is that the press is constantly manipulating our market. Sure people are scared to put their homes on the market because they fear they won’t be able to find somewhere to live. This is definitely a real concern.
by tylerToronto under CC-SA That’s why there are so few listings with those that are listed as much as 50% go over asking price in some neighbourhoods.

But personally I don’t think the Toronto Star hyping Toronto Real Estate the way it does or any other local publication for that matter is helping matters, just selling papers. I would be interested in hearing your opinion on the matter.

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