Notes on a
Small Market.
Written by the people doing the deals, not by a marketing department. Roughly two a month.
Toronto Market Update: Summer 2026
Volume is down eleven per cent on last summer and average days-on-market is up to fifty-two. Neither figure means what the headlines say it means. Here is what we are actually seeing at the top of the market, street by street.
Recent writing
Eleven terraces within a ten-minute walk of Bay and Bloor, ranked honestly by whether you can hear the person opposite you.
Six renovation decisions that still read as considered a decade later, and four that will date your house within three years.
Which streets flood, which lots can actually be built on, and why the south end trades at a premium the maps do not explain.
We looked at our own last forty sales to work out the honest price gap between a private sale and a public one. The answer surprised us.
Eleven homes, the real invoice for each, and the difference against our pre-preparation valuation. No rounding up.
Why the sellers who list in the third week of February consistently outperform the ones who wait for the tulips.