Toronto's urban exodus was driven by shifting life plans: Broker Daniel Foch, broker and real estate analyst at Foch Family Real Estate joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss his research on what drove the urban exodus in Toronto, and what next year could bring.   Full video:  https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/toronto-s-urban-exodus-was-driven-by-shifting-life-plans-broker~2105537   [read more]

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Link to article: https://www.greaterfool.ca/2020/11/12/outta-here-4/ Exerpt: Realtor Daniel Foch, a house-slinger from north of Toronto, did some interesting plotting recently. He tracked 211 deals reported by the real estate board in the course of one day, following the links between the sale address and the agent’s office address, showing the path of buyer migration. It’s an exodus, he says, from the urban core to the fringes. To the east Durham was a big winner.... [read more]

Context I wrote a lot of articles earlier this year, but started doing more visual analysis for Instagram, Twitter & YouTube to grow my audience on those platforms. I've decided I should write a bit more again. I managed to put together a few data sets aimed at understanding the way people are changing their relationship with urbanized housing as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, and the consequential lockdowns that followed it. The information was well received by the media.... [read more]

  ILLUSTRATION BY KATHLEEN FU Josh Murray, who is leaving Toronto with his wife for a house in Kitchener, Ont., picked their neighbourhood partly because of its diversity. When he has children, he wants them to grow up in a multicultural environment. “There’s certain places we didn’t consider because of that,” Mr. Murray said, referring to areas that are more racially homogeneous. Daniel Foch, broker at Foch Family Realty in Georgina, Ont.,... [read more]