Despite a fairly flat housing market, real estate experts believe a short supply of low-priced, affordable homes is the biggest concern for the market.
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TORONTO – BUSINESS – Residential real estate is surging. Demand for housing has exceeded supply through the last half of 2020. This has put pressure on home prices, which Royal LePage says, in their Market Survey Forecast predicts a five and a half per cent increase in the price of the average home in 2021.
The price of a home in Canada in 2021 across the country will be $745,100, while the median price of a two-storey detached house or condominium will be projected to rise by six per cent, and 2.25 percent respectively to $890,100 and $522,700.
“The leading indicators we analyze are pointing to a market that favours property sellers in the all-important spring of 2021,” said Phil Soper, president and CEO, Royal LePage. “Across the country, a large number of hopeful buyers intent on improving their housing situation were not able to find the home they were looking for this year, as the inventory of properties for sale came nowhere near to