The army of cranes redefining the Toronto skyline.
Toronto reportedly counts the most high-rise real estate projects under construction in North America!
Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus
High rental vacancies…
“We believe that buyers in the current condo market exude hope over experience…” (Despite claims of a buoyant rental market investors are ending up with) “an astonishingly low return on invested capital.” – Source: Ohad Lederer, an analyst at Veritas Investment Research.
…and a growing number of preservationists who say too many new towers are destroying the city’s character.
Social Media: “Dear Condo Toronto, you were an awesome city before you turned into a condo developer’s dream. I used to love going downtown because you had a welcoming core with parks, community spaces and many innovative small businesses. Now downtown is becoming a high-rise construction haven littered with towering steel and glass walled shoeboxes hiding our lake and our sky. Unfortunately a daily commuter’s nightmare…” – 2013 John Zeus
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Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus
“Toronto condo developers face formidable obstacles: an infrastructure buckling under soaring density rates, the laws of supply and demand and preservationists who says too many new towers are destroying the city’s character.” – Source: The Financial Post
Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus
Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus
“Since June 2011 the number of unsold high-rise units in the pre-construction stage has doubled. Unsold units under construction have also increased from fewer than 5,000 at the beginning of 2012 to almost 7,000.” – Source: Bank of Canada
Toronto Condo Construction | Photo Source: John Zeus
Adapted by John Zeus. Original Sources Include; Bank of Canada and The Financial Post.
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January 4, 2013 at 6:43 pm
I enjoyed your posts about your trip to T.O. I hope you had a great time exploring the city. Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog.
January 4, 2013 at 6:36 pm
I had the chance to make my maiden voyage to TO in July. I can totally appreciate the wall of condos springing up and towering over the city after having a chance to step out onto the rooftop garden of a vendor’s office building.