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A market "crash"​ isn't the only way down. Published on July 5, 2021 Edit article View stats Status is online Daniel Foch Real estate. 35 articles To me, a "crash" implies that prices fall so quickly that people don't have time to escape. This creates a trap in which financial stress can be spread across the entire economy. See America, 2008. In a normal year, it's very... [read more]

I feel like I've been generally about as exhaustive as I can be about the impact/existence of the "urban exodus" in the GTA, but you can expect a little bit more data in the future. The team at informedrealtor.com is putting together a visual timeline video. BlogTO & Zoocasa posted a great map detailing price growth across the GTA that echoed my original exodus mapping project. From my perspective, price is the more important metric than individual or household... [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]

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