| Toronto real estate market recovers, but HST storm cloud looms Posted: May 20, 2009, 7:02 PM by Rob Roberts By Emily Senger, National Post Just as Toronto's real estate market begins to recover, realtors and home builders are worried Ontario's new harmonized sales tax could send sales plummeting again. The number of home sales in the GTA in the first half of May was up 3% over the same period last year, after a series of year-over-year drops, the Toronto Real Estate Board said today. The average price was $399,811, about the same as last May. For more information click here |