{"id":11,"date":"2026-09-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/kelvinyu-ca\/2026\/09\/07\/toronto-starts-fall-short-of-target-watch-todays-real-estate-updates-tips\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:00:00","slug":"toronto-starts-fall-short-of-target-watch-todays-real-estate-updates-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/07\/toronto-starts-fall-short-of-target-watch-todays-real-estate-updates-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Starts Fall Short of Target | Watch Today&#8217;s Real Estate Updates &#038; Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/kelvin-yu\/housing-starts-fall-remotion-videos-5d8c\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Toronto\u2019s housing starts have dipped 10% compared to last year\u2014a reminder of how construction activity can ebb and flow, especially in our city\u2019s larger urban market. As a real estate agent who\u2019s worked across Markham and the GTA for nearly two decades, I keep a close eye on these shifts. Right now, Toronto is tracking 37 building permits linked to 6,600 condo apartment units that haven\u2019t yet broken ground. While some projects are on pause, it\u2019s important to remember that pre-sales for these condos likely happened months ago, before the recent slowdown in sales activity. Housing-start data always lags behind what we see on the ground because these developments move through several phases\u2014planning, pre-sales, permits\u2014long before construction crews arrive. In other words, today\u2019s numbers may actually understate the activity we\u2019ll see in coming months as these permitted condos work their way through the pipeline. For buyers, sellers, and investors, understanding this timeline is key to making informed decisions in our evolving market.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s housing starts have dipped 10% compared to last year\u2014a reminder of how construction activity can ebb and flow, especially in our city\u2019s larger urban market. As a real estate agent who\u2019s worked across Markham and the GTA for nearly two decades, I keep a close eye on these shifts. Right now, Toronto is tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}