Local real estate insights for Toronto and the GTA from Jatin Dua, Realtor at RE/MAX Quantum Realty. Want this applied to your own situation rather than the market as a whole? Send me your address or your budget and I will run the numbers for you. Call or text 833-330-1925, or send me a message.
A complete guide to buying a top-end condominium in Toronto: what the status certificate must tell you, how to test whether a view is protected, what fees actually buy, and the market you are buying into.
Toronto recorded zero new condo project launches in Q1 2026 and a record 4,295 completed unsold units — while $5 million-plus condo sales in the core doubled. Both are true. Here is why.
Below-grade space is the most inconsistently valued area in any Toronto luxury home. Three variables decide whether buyers treat it as real living space or as a discount: height, light and access.
Technology in a luxury home either becomes invisible infrastructure or an obsolete liability. The difference is predictable, and it comes down to whether the next owner can replace one part without replacing everything.
A pool can add value, subtract it, or be irrelevant, and which one depends almost entirely on the lot. Here is the honest analysis, plus the tree, ravine and TRCA rules that decide whether you can build one at all.
Building custom in Toronto is a sequence problem before it is a money problem. Here is the real approval order, the costs that surprise people, and the warranty rules that apply if a builder is doing it.
On many Toronto streets above $3 million, you are buying a lot with a building on it. Here is the arithmetic that tells you whether to renovate or rebuild, and the constraints that decide the answer for you.
Custom architecture cuts both ways at resale. The August 2026 Forest Hill sale went $1.5 million over asking on a house completed in 2025. Others sit for years. Here is what separates them.
A complete, honest guide to buying above $3 million in Toronto — how thin the market really is, what due diligence actually means on a ravine or heritage lot, how offers work under TRESA, and exactly what closing costs.
The top end of the Toronto market runs on its own calendar, driven by school years, ravine foliage and the small number of buyers who are actually in town. Here is how the year really works above $3 million.
