Agents Turning Down Listings in New Times - Toronto & Vancouver Real Estate Roundtable June 2025

Move Smartly Editor and Host, Urmi, once again speaks to John and Steve on what is going on in the data and on the ground in Toronto and Vancouver.

Overall home sales and new home sales plunge to lows not seen since the 1990s. John and Steve what the federal government should - and shouldn’t do - for the struggling new home building sector. Plus - how our real estate brokers, agents and brokerage reacting to changing market consideration as sellers remain fixed on yesterday’s prices?

0:00 Intro
01:30 Toronto Housing Market
04:22 Vancouver Housing Market
07:25 Shrinking Stock?
10:09 New Con Sales Low
13:23 Low Rise Speculators
21:26 Fed Govt Intervention
31:18 Hit on Larger Economy?
41:17 Fed Govt Confusion?
45:00 Agents Rejecting Listings?

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About This Roundtable Series:

Each month, Move Smartly.com editor, Urmi Desai, talks to John Pasalis, Housing Analyst, Broker and President of Realosophy Realty in Toronto, and Steve Saretsky, Housing Analyst and Realtor at the Oakwin Realty Group at Oakwin Realty in Vancouver about the latest data and on-the-ground insights in Canada's biggest residential RE markets. (Thanks to Jesse Bains, now at Linked In News, for kicking off this series at Yahoo Finance originally!)

About This Show:

The Move Smartly show is co-hosted by Urmi Desai, Editor of Move Smartly, and John Pasalis, President and Broker of Realosophy Realty. MoveSmartly.com and its media channels on YouTube and various podcast platforms are powered by Realosophy Realty in Toronto, Canada.
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